Options for forced navigation that allow rapid course review in Captivate 4?

[Baka66]

We're building a large compliance course using Captivate 4 (to be placed on our 1.2 LMS). To meet regulatory requirements, we have to ensure learners take the whole course and don't just rapidly click through each page or skip audio or video segments.

We think we can do this by having navigation buttons appear after a certain amount of time, removing slider/FF functions from audio and video clips and placing knowledge checks throughout the course (which we would do anyways).

The catch is that we'd also like learners to be able skip back to sections without then having to go through every intervening slide at normal speed.

Is there a way to build a menu that allows you to go backward but then only forward as far as you've already gone?

Thank you in advance.

[Erik_Lord]

From what you describe, by delaying Next buttons until a certain time has passed (or maybe better not showing Next buttons until audio is complete?), it may be better to try to do some fancy javascript that overrides those delays if the user has already visited the slide.

If you're tracking slide views, you may be able to access that array. If you have some smart JS programmers, they might be able to somehow (?!) show the Next button immediately on entering the slide if the user has viewed that slide already...

...unfortunately, lots of things like this seem to still be 'theory hacks' for Captivate at it's current point in life.

Erik

[Guest]

Assosiate a variable with each slide. Increment it on slide enter.

On slide enter, also write an advanced action that if the count>1, show Next button.

Regards,

vb

[Baka66]

We initially looked at having navigation buttons appear after a certain amount of time but it limited options for learners to navigate back-and-forth among previously completed content.

We'll probably use the variable settings on objects as vb suggests. We'll also use custom video/audio navigation skins that allow you to slide backward and back forwards but not further into the course (e.g., you can't skip content you haven't seen/heard yet).

Thank you!