Branching design question

[doofdaddy]

Good question from a blog reader:


I just finished watching your “Dump The Drone Demo” and “Dave’s Ladybirds on Branches” demo. I am trying to learn all that I can about branching and hyperlinking with Articulate!

I do have a question for you. In your demo, you gave users the option of clicking “next” to opt out of doing either section. In the course I am developing, I need to be able to “force” the user to complete all sections before continuing. Do you know a way to do that?

In Dave’s Ladybirds demo, he also used branching to indicate when a user had completed each section. Is there a way to do that and to force the users to complete all sections before continuing? Ideally, I would like to have 4 options. The user choses each option in their own order. Once they have completed all 4 options/section, they are free to move on in the course. Ideas for a non-flash programmer?

[Jeanette]

The difficulty in using hyperlinking/branching, I think, would be how to know which of the four sections the learner has completed, so as not to allow them to move forward till they've been through all four sections. It's not too hard to do this if there are only two sections, but quite a bit more complex when there are four.

If Engage is available, one option would be to build out the four sections within Engage (maybe a Tabs interaction?) and set the Playback Mode to be Interactive (user can advance in any order). Then, insert the interaction as a slide within Presenter, and adjust the interaction properties at the bottom of the placeholder slide to prevent the user from leaving the interaction till they've viewed the whole thing. That way, they can explore the four content sections in any order they want but still not see any further content till they've finished all four sections.