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Showing Seek Bar on a lightbox slide
Hi everyone,
I did a quick search and didn't find anything addressing this questio:
Are you able to show the seek bar on a light box slide?
I have a number of video clips that I am showing by way of several light box slides. I'd like to show the seek bar so users can rewind and watch the video again if they like. But when I select the seekbar in the slide properties, it doesn't show up when the slide is playing. Instead it's just showing a grey bar along the bottom. It's also not showing the volume control button which is selected on the global player properties.
If I can't show the seek bar and volume, I'd like to just get rid of that grey bar at least.
Any ideas?
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Did this feature get added in the end? Current workaround is to "show video controls" on the lightbox layer itself (Thanks brad) but as flagged I don't think you can then change the video controls from the standard grey.
Hello Darren and welcome to E-Learning Heroes 😊
A seekbar is not a feature available on a lightbox slide. You can include the previous/next navigation controls.
Can you share what you would like to create? We'd be happy to brainstorm ideas with you.
Hey Leslie, so this particular client wants the users to watch a video without the ability to skip the video on first watch. Then take a quiz. If they fail the quiz the user has the ability to watch the video again but can then skip, fwd, rewind at will. Originally was going to look to create this by going back to the same video slide and do some trigger magic to allow control on 2nd viewing. However they are really keen the video recap by in a lightbox layer.
Long story short, show video controls on the lightbox layer is my current solution. The video player itself looks old school but it works which is the main thing.
I am wishing there was a seekbar on the lightboxed slide for a completely different reason. I submitted a feature request already, but here's the use case. I have a quiz that is used to enhance learning, more than to "test". They need to pass it, but have unlimited attempts. On each individual question, there are 2 attempts. For the Try Again feedback, there is a hyperlink / trigger to lightbox the slide that contained the answer. This way they can re-watch that slide and find the correct answer for themselves. The problem is that this course is narrated and some slides are multiple minutes long (not my design, I inherited this course). If I lightbox the slide, the learner cannot fast forward or rewind the timeline to hear the parts of the narration or see the portion of the slide they need. this leaves me torn between lightboxing and just linking back to the slide and then letting the learner navigate back to the quiz question on their own. Both have their downfalls. The video controls don;t help for this use case, though.
Hello Carie!
Thank you so much for sharing this use case with us! I've also created a feature request report and linked this discussion to continue tracking the impact of this feature. I'll be sure to advocate on your behalf and update you in this discussion!
Thank you for taking the time to share this request with us!
I also wish there was a way to include a seekbar in lightboxes. It seems to me that this would necessary for 508 compliance. Being able to add controls for a video is an easy workaround, but what if you have a slide with audio? Users should be able to control volume and skip forward, backward, etc.
HI Kristen,
Thank you for your feedback! We do have a feature request logged for the ability to show a seekbar when the slide is lightboxed, so this is still on our radar. I'll add your vote and will be sure to update this discussion if this makes it to our feature roadmap.
I would also like this feature!
Our course is set up so the learner can't fast forward through a video upon first watch. However, a few slides later, on the knowledge check, there's a rewatch button. My current workaround is (from the KC slide) to open the original video slide in a lightbox when they click the "rewatch video" button, but to show a layer when the timeline starts (trigger: show layer "rewatch" if this slide is lightboxed). The rewatch layer is the same video as the base layer, but with video controls turned on and "pause timeline of base layer" turned on in the slide layer properties. Then the learner can fast forward, rewind, etc. as desired and close the lightbox to return to the KC when they are ready.
Hello CRios,
I appreciate you sharing your voice and current workaround in this thread! I have shared your insight with our product team. We'll share future updates in this thread so everyone is in the loop.
