Resume Saved State of Layer properties Storyline 360 latest version

HI Cheryl, 

The resume saved state and reset to initial state in the slide properties window will not affect the variables. These options will tell Storyline to remember the states, and where the timeline was before advancing or going back to another slide.

The reason why the course is getting stuck on revisit if the slide is set to "Resume saved state" is because after the timeline ends on the first visit, revisiting the slide will resume with the timeline already ended. Because the timeline has ended already, the trigger that changes the state of the player Next button back to Normal will no longer fire since there is no actual transition from the timeline playing to the timeline ending.

A possible fix for this is to add some conditions on the trigger that disables the Next button when the timeline starts if any one of the 16 layer variables are false, in other words, the trigger will not fire if all the layers have been viewed and as a result keep the player's Next button enabled on revisits. This way, your audience will keep their progress, and the slide will only restrict the Next button if any one  of your 16 layers are not visited, I would also suggest setting each layer to pause the timeline of the base layer because if the timeline ends before all of the 16 layers are viewed, then the trigger will also not fire.  Here is what the modified trigger in my sample file looks like:

In the sample file I attached, I also created a couple of oval objects and a variable to visibly show what the timeline's state is. These can be ignored.