Jump from review slide to prior slide & back to review slide
Oct 15, 2012
OK, here's what I'm attempting to do. After a pop-quiz and before going to the next scene, I want to give the learner the opportunity to go back to a previous slide from a review screen and then RETURN to the review slide and not to the next slide.
To do this, I created counter variables for each screen, added a trigger to increase the counter by 1 when the timeline ends, and another to reveal a layer with a link back to the review page if the counter is => than 1.
This works (but is there a simpler way?), EXCEPT for slides that jump out to a video screen and back. On the first visit, if they view one of the videos, the counter goes up one and the review button/layer appears. There are two video leaps on the page, but since I want them to be able to view each video as many times as they need, I can't just set the number to => than 3.
Ideally, I'd like the return button layer to reveal only when entered via the Review slide links, but I don't think this can be done.
Ideas anyone?
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Hmmm, should the trigger to adjust variable be "when user clicks next"? I'll try that and see.
Would creating dupes of your previous slides as lightbox slides work for you?
Yes, it would, but wouldn't that increase the size quite a bit? I'm trying to avoid doubling the size of the course.
Follow on question in relation to my solution above: Does each trigger queued to "Click Next" require a seperate click? If I have "increase counter" as one and "jump to the next slide" as another, if the user click "Next" do both triggers..um...trigger or would it have to be in a certain order and Next clicked twice? (I've tried ordering them on Next but it doesn't seem to work).
Hey Rob,
Here are a couple options:
Instead of a Counter variable, you could create a 'True/False' variable for each 'Continue' button on each slide. For the continue button to work properly you would need 3 triggers
1. If VARIABLE 1 = True, Jump to Review
2. Jump to Next Slide when clicked
3. Adjust VARIABLE 1 to True when clicked.
Create a seperate 'Jump Back to Review slide' button on each slide. By default the button is hidden and a variable on the review slide will change the state of all these buttons to normal.
-Eric
Brilliant! Thank you!
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