How to Notify Learners When to Click the Next Button in E-Learning #293

Next Button Alerts and Notifications in E-Learning #293: Challenge | Recap

Generally, when someone asks about the ubiquitous next button, they’re looking for creative ideas to move beyond the default next button. Other times they’re looking for help building animated button effects to liven up their course design. 

But in a recent training webinar, someone asked something different and I thought it would make a fun and easy challenge.

This time, the question was around drawing attention to the next button. She wanted to help learners know when it’s time to click next without having to narrate “Click next to continue” at the end of every slide. Finding ways to highlight, emphasize, and help learners find the next button is what this week's challenge is all about!

Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to share ideas for notifying learners when it’s time to click navigation buttons in e-learning.

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Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you get started on this week’s challenge, check out the creative ways text variables can be used to let learners compare and contrast their answers with an expert’s recommendation:

Using Variables to Compare Answers in E-Learning #292: Challenge | Recap

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The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.