Sequential Order First, Then Free to Move

[joeyr27817325]

I was wondering if its possible to make a course have to go through a linear path to ensure the user covers all topics, but then after they get to the end, they would be able to jump around freely to any of the sections.

Thanks everyone!

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Why not use the TOC for that purpose? You can check the option 'visited slide only'. If you make it in Overlay, you could replace the expand/collapse icons by a transparent image. At the end of the course you make a toggle button visible that can open/close the TOC. Put that button on the first slide, and time it for the rest of the project. You can use the shared action described in this article for that button:

1 action = 5 Toggle Buttons - Captivate blog

The alternative would be to hide the playbar, and make it only visile at the end of the course. But that will mean that in the first sequental visit of the course they'll see an 'ugly' thick border at the bottom.

[joeyr27817325]

The client wants a navigation bar at the bottom so the user can see the progress of where they are at in the course.

I understand what youre saying, if the TOC is then visible at the end of the course allowing them to click on one of the sections to revisit, they would have to go through the whole project again from where ever they choose to restart right?

I guess what Im saying is if the course has 5 sections, they get to the end and want to revisit the 2nd section, would they then be able to jump to the 4th section without having to view the third?

Again, the client requested a progress/navigation bar to be visible on all slides and the navigation bar only is able to go backward, not forward (another feature requested by the client). This is the part thats kind of confusing me. I dont know how to "unlock" the navigation bar once they complete the course.

If its not possible, thats okay. Im relatively new to Captivate. I didnt think this would be possible without some advanced custom scripting written.

[Lilybiri]

No, in the TOC they could click any slide they wanted to visit. You can group the slides together to make the structure more apparent, but the learner can click any slide to visit.

That is the big difference with the simple playbar where they have to guess how to drag the progress bar somewhere.  There is also no way to prevent them from scrubbing that progress bar, unless you use a JS solution or the CpExtra widget by InfoSemantics.  Indeed, some programming needed.

[joeyr27817325]

Thanks a lot!

Really appreciate your time.

[RodWard]

If using the TOC, you can set it to Navigate Visited Slides ONLY in the TOC settings.  This then enforces the user must visit the slides in a linear fashion the first time through, but then they can freely navigate any slides previously visited in any order.