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Allow Users to Bypass an Interaction Slide

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 by gabe

10 Comments


A question I’ve seen come up quite a bit lately in support is this: “How can I permit my users to bypass my Engage interaction slide without having to view all the steps?”

The short answer: You need to change the properties of your Engage slide via PowerPoint after you’ve published to Articulate Presenter.

Here’s how to do it:

  1. Publish your Engage interaction to Presenter, as you would normally do (Publish -> Articulate Presenter).
  2. You’ll see a new interaction slide appear in your PowerPoint file.

    3. Engage interaction slide

  3. Navigate to the slide and view it in Normal mode in PowerPoint.
  4. Notice the default interaction slide Properties at the bottom of the slide:
      5. Interaction Properties

    • Allow user to leave interaction: After viewing all the steps
    • Show ‘Next Slide’ Button: Show upon completion
    • Completion Button Label: Next Slide
  5. Single-click the Properties button to view your Engage Interaction properties for all interaction slides and interaction tabs in your presentation.

    6. View all step options

  6. In the Interaction Properties section, set the drop-down option next to the first choice, Allow user to leave interaction, from the default option to Anytime.
  7. Click Close to save your options, then publish your content via Articulate -> Publish

That’s it! Now your users can skip past your Engage interaction slide without having to view all steps in the interaction.

Note that you can apply the above steps to any and/or all interaction slides you may have in your e-learning course.

See also: Articulate Presenter 5 Documentation | Articulate Engage Interactions

Posted in Articulate Engage

10 Responses to “Allow Users to Bypass an Interaction Slide”

Is it be possible to add any other interactivity to articulate presenter? Or else I can use from only the 10 which are provided in articulate engage.

mahabub basha  |  Posted at 09:09 am on April 25th, 2007 |  #

Does QuizMaker support creating Case Studies (which includes more text, bigger images, audio, and video)?

Santhosh Kumar  |  Posted at 04:58 am on April 26th, 2007 |  #

For some reason Articulate Presenter has forgotten that I have Engage installed. When I click on the button all I get is a dialog box to edit it as a graphic element. When I click the Articulate menu, then Engage Interactions, I just get a commercial about why I should purchase Engage. Of course, I’ve already purchased and installed Engage, but Articulate no longer knows this.

TucsonTom  |  Posted at 08:09 pm on February 15th, 2008 |  #

Hi Tucson Tom-

If you attempt to use Engage elements in a Presenter presentation and receive a “Get it Now” message indicating you don’t have Articulate Engage, please do the following:

1) Quit PowerPoint.
2) Quit Engage.
3) Restart Engage.
4) Restart PowerPoint.

This should activate the Engage menu in Presenter.

gabe  |  Posted at 02:52 pm on February 16th, 2008 |  #

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Articulate 101: 3 Things You Need to Know About Presenter - Articulate - Word of Mouth Blog  |  Posted at 04:55 pm on February 28th, 2008 |  #

Setting the Interaction Properties to allow the user to bypass interaction slides enables the user to click Next to advance at any time; however, it doesn’t change the Pause button to Play.

In order for Pause to change to Play, the user must access the last tab and then wait a few seconds. They don’t have to access other tabs; it’s just the last in the series. This is annoying to many users, especially when they revisit an interactive screen but don’t wawnt to visit that last tab.

Is there any way to have Pause change to Play without having to visit that last tab?

Donna  |  Posted at 12:32 pm on May 2nd, 2008 |  #

I need to edit properties of an engage interaction so the user can navigate away from it at any time. After clicking the Properties button in Articulate on the engage interaction page, I get a message that states “could not instantiate the articulate engage engine.” Thoughts? Thanks.

Sharon Hearnsberger  |  Posted at 02:23 pm on May 7th, 2008 |  #

Hi Sharon-

I’ve submitted a case on your behalf so that we can help you out with this issue.

gabe  |  Posted at 03:01 pm on May 7th, 2008 |  #

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» How to Create Tooltips in Presenter with Engage - Articulate - Word of Mouth Blog  |  Posted at 04:01 pm on June 17th, 2008 |  #

I’ve just started using Articluate products. I think they are nice!!

Nidhi Gupta  |  Posted at 02:07 am on June 20th, 2008 |  #

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