Tracking course status using "change state" feature

[RobynWright7]

Hi, I'm trying to configure a course so that "states" retain their new state (their new color) throughout the entire course.  What's happening now is that each time a new state appears, the previous one reverts back to the original (normal) state.  My guess is that I need to set up conditional actions, but here's the way it is now:

The learner is presented with a number of clickboxes (and can click on them in any order) to navigate through the course.

Once they are finished with the material on a given topic, the checkmark at the lower-left brings them back to the main page:

Here's the current setup:

Here's the result.  (For subsequent topics, the state you see below goes back to the normal state - black.)

Any tips would be immensely appreciated.  I'm familiar with conditional if-else advanced actions.  I don't know how to get this one started though.

Thanks!

Robyn

[Stagprime]

Hmm... If I understand correctly, each of the little black arrows represents an activity that when finished turns pink but we need all the pink ones to stay pink.

I am sure there are a number of ways to accomplish this but here is the first thing that comes to mind as to how I might try and tackle it.

Each of the arrow graphics will have a different name - let's say one is testosterone and one is estrogen. I might create a variable for each of them as well so that we can flag the activity as complete. That way in the advanced action we can say something to the effect of

Assign varTestosterone with 1
Jump to Slide 4

Each arrow would also have two states - black and pink

If slide 4 is your main page that you go back to... put an OnEnter advanced action that does a check for all of the completed flags.

IF varTestosterone =  1 Then changeState of testosteroneArrow to pink

IF varEstrogen =  1 Then changeState of estrogenArrow to pink

etc.

This way you are always getting the states to be pink or black on every entry back to that slide.

Does this make sense and fit what you are trying to do?

[RobynWright7]

This sounds like exactly what is needed.  I'll try this later on today and will let you know.

Thanks!

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Was this option checked?

Maybe too easy?

[RobynWright7]

It was not checked!  That's all I needed to do.

Thank you both for your feedback.

Robyn

[Lilybiri]

You're welcome, glad you like the KISS approach