Hi, Folks! I want to Restrict menu navigation for the first completion only of an LMS course for a learner. Then upon revisit for the same learner, allow Free navigation. Can this be done in Storyline? Thanks for your help!

This thread is 3 years old. I don't understand the responses given by the STAFF. Its like they are avoiding saying.. Yeah we can't do that. It is clear what the thread wants. First pass through a restricted course is restricted. Complete the course second pass is UNRESTRICTED. Not sure why there is not a clear answer here. We need to know the variable that sets if the course is completed. Don't know if there is a way to suck that out the LMS or if we can use the RESUME variable to do this. The Resume variable is not documented as far as I can tell. So 3 years later... anybody figure this out?

If you click on Player in the Home Tab then Menu, you can set restrictions by clicking the Additional Options icon in the lower right of the menu window. You can set Navigation Restriction to Free, restricted or locked. The Restricted setting prevents learners from jumping ahead but can go back and view slides they've already previewed. Hope this helps.

Hi Bob and welcome to Heroes! You can set up restricted navigation as an option under the Player Templates -> Menu and that would allow the learner to move through the lesson and then they could only view the previous slide and the current slide. This article gives you a few different examples on how to further lock your navigation. Additionally, if you wanted to have the user be able to return to a course after viewing it, you can set each slide to "Resume saved state" which will tell the course that when they're looking at it again to not reset anything. You'll also want to ensure that from the player template -> other section you have the "Resume on Restart" feature set to "prompt to resume" and the user will be able to pick up where they left off. Let us know if you need anything else!

Thanks for the response Ashley. I followed your directions but I'm not getting the results I'm looking for. What I'd like is for the learner to be restricted so they must complete the entire course for the first time (all slides for LMS completion). Then, at a later date when they want a refresher, to be able to have free navigation to any slide on the menu. So, if they want to refresh on one topic only, they don't have to go through the entire course. Is that possible?

Hi Bob, I haven't seen a built in way to do so, but this thread presents a few interesting examples. Also, I read this article about sequencing it within Articulate Online and wonder if you could set something similar up in one Storyline course where at the end of the course they're given a "password to unlock" that if they enter on the first page, it changes the variables as described in the article I first posted so that they can navigate through freely.

Restricted Navigation and Free Navigation

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SeanOBrien1
Community Member
3 years ago
This thread is 3 years old. I don't understand the responses given by the STAFF. Its like they are avoiding saying.. Yeah we can't do that.

It is clear what the thread wants. First pass through a restricted course is restricted. Complete the course second pass is UNRESTRICTED.

Not sure why there is not a clear answer here. We need to know the variable that sets if the course is completed. Don't know if there is a way to suck that out the LMS or if we can use the RESUME variable to do this. The Resume variable is not documented as far as I can tell.

So 3 years later... anybody figure this out?
JayBraund
Community Member
3 years ago
I would recommend that Articulate staffer consider this a high priority option in future versions.

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