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Best Practices for Storyline Player Controls
Hi there, I'm curious to hear people's thoughts and experiences regarding which Player Controls they use when setting up the player in Storyline.
Depending on what you want to accomplish of course, I think that Search, Accessibility Controls, Play/Pause, and Seekbar are useful. Perhaps Playback speed also?
Do you prefer giving the learner more control over the player or less?
Thanks in advance.
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I really like this question! Just commenting so I can stay notified when folks chime in—really curious to hear if folks have a standard approach to this or if it changes from course to course.
bkopman, what has your approach been thus far?Noele_Flowers Currently, I am using Accessibility Controls and Search. I'm looking to add Seekbar (Allow user to drag seekbar) and Play/Pause. Love to hear what others think.
I am a big proponent of providing adult learners autonomy in their training and thus providing them open navigation as much as possible. This means not locking down the navigation pane, providing a seekbar that is not locked down, including next/submit buttons and previous buttons. The only thing I like to lock down is Knowledge Checks. I use variables to make it so that a learner does not accidentally jump to the Knowledge Checks prior to completing the learning portion of the training objective.
MarkNolker Thanks for weighing in. I agree.
I really appreciate you bringing us back to the underlying principle behind the decision, MarkNolker!
