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February 10, 2014
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Setting control bar to resume auto-play (Captivate 6)

  • February 10, 2014
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Hi,

I am currently using Captivate 6 to create an eLearning course.  We have decided to display the bottom control bar to allow flexibility for the student to move between screens in each lesson.  Currently if the student uses the progress arrow in the control bar to move forward or backward the lesson pauses and the user has to press the Play button to resume the lesson.

Does anyone know of a setting within Captivate or whether it is possible to program the control bar so that it will resume auto-play mode whenever the student uses the progress bar to move back and forth within a lesson?

Cheers,

Richard

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
February 10, 2014

Hello and welcome

I think you are talking about scrubbing the progress bar? I don't know about a way to achieve AutoPlay. Moreover, if your course is not linear, it is not a good idea to give free navigation that way at all. Same for the buttons on the normal playbars. I almost never use it for that reason. Another way to allow free navigation is the TOC (which you can have in overlay so that it can be hidden/shown by the user). In the TOC it is easier to show chapters, and if you add labels to the slides, at least user will know where he is going to.

Lilybiri

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Participant
February 10, 2014

Hi Lilybiri,

Thank you for the response.  Yes, I am talking about "scrubbing" the progress bar.

I understand your concerns about allowing the user to use the control bar but the course is mostly linear so for us it works well to display the progress bar as it also gives an indication to the student about how they are progressing through each lesson.

We also use the TOC to allow navigation from screen to screen within a lesson.

Richard

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
February 11, 2014

Hi Richard, just wanted to let you know about possible problems. The TOC also gives an indication about the progress by showing the "time done/total time". Or you could create a custom indicator.

Lilybiri

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