PLAY icon to start course in Review 360

Hi Carrie!

Do you see this play button in Chrome? Also, does the course have audio or video that plays automatically on the first slide?

Recently, Chrome changed the way it handles media autoplay. Now in Chrome 70+, learners may see a play button when they launch a course with audio or video on the first slide. Just click the play button to start the course, and the media should play as expected.

Let me know if that's what you are seeing!

Yup, I think that's it, Alyssa!

The course plays as soon as the button is clicked. But I'm concerned that learners may be thrown by this like I was since this is something new for them.

I'm going to try putting in a new opening screen with no audio and maybe a second delay....same graphics as screen 2, just no audio, and see if that solves this.

Thanks!

Hi Carrie,

Chrome is looking for the learner to "click" something before the audio will play.

You may want to add a slide at the beginning of the course with a button that says, "Start Course." Then the audio should play normally on slide 2. 

Also, it's worth mentioning that Chrome uses indexing to remember when you've allowed audio to play on previous visits to the same site. After a while, learners won't see the gray play button because Chrome will know to autoplay media on that site.

That explains why my extra screen didn't work. ;-)

So is Chrome indexing per page or per user, ie once several users have taken the course, the gray button goes away?

Hey there, Carrie. Each user's Chrome browser will be keeping track of what they're doing; so it will be per user!

Bummer, I was hoping it would 'go away' soon so they don't have to bother with an extra screen. 

Oh well, so be it! I appreciate the input from all of you!