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Bookmarking Feature
A bookmarking feature that allows learners to mark specific slides (Storyline) or lessons (Rise) within a SCORM package so they can easily revisit them later would be a good thing. This feature enhances learner control, personalisation, and knowledge reinforcement by allowing users to highlight the most relevant or complex sections for their learning needs. This feature would make the learning experience more flexible, efficient, and learner-centric.
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While this may not be an existing feature, it is something that would be fairly easy to add using triggers and variables.
If you're comfortable with a javascript solution, then you could visibly change how bookmarked scene names appear in the menu.
But without javascript, you could make a bookmark page generated using variables. Then, add a new item to your Topbar that opens the bookmark page in a lightbox.
Both these suggestions would be a lot easier if they were designed before building your coarse so you could add the bookmark button to your template prior to building it out. Although, I can picture a version that wouldn't need prior prep and would allow the user to toggle bookmarks for each page on the actual bookmark page. Potentially you could even add a spot for them to add a note for each page this way too.
Thank you HoneyTurner. I love the idea of using variables and triggers to create a custom bookmarking system, especially with the option to add notes per page. That will be super helpful for our learners.
I’m definitely going to give this a try. Do you happen to have any links to screen recordings or tutorials that walk through the setup? That would be super helpful.
I haven’t created a system like this before. But if you’re doing it as a separate page, then I’d think you want some variables:
- a true/false variable for each slide
- a notes variable for each slide
And create a table that includes a new line for each slide
- a button or checkbox to toggle the T/F variable, plus make a visual change
- the slide title. This could be a clickable link to jump to the slide, or you could make a separate jump button.
- a text box to capture the notes. There should be samples of how to update a text box
Depending on the size of your project, you may need to break it into tabs for each scene or add a scroll bar. To make it more compact, you might even be able to turn the numbering system on for the menu, then just use the numbers to identify the slide.
If you were willing to get into javascript, then there's probably a way you could have 2 display formats.
- An initial bookmark page with only the entries that you've bookmarked, including a jump button, the title and the notes, but no edit functionality. Don't forget to have a backup display for when they haven't saved their first bookmark yet.
- A full Table of Contents with the functionality described above.
Hello JenniferJacob-c
Thanks for the thoughtful idea! I’ve logged this as a feature request so our product team can consider learner bookmarking for Storyline and Rise.
I also appreciate HoneyTurner sharing helpful workarounds with triggers, variables, and JavaScript in the meantime.
We’ll let you know if this capability gets added in a future update.
