Use the Navigation section of the Player Template Builder to configure options for user navigation within the Articulate Player. Details of this section are below. When you close the Player Template, the last-viewed section will be shown the next time you open it.
The elements of the Navigation section of the Player Template Builder are below. Use the radio button or checkbox next to each element to determine navigation attributes.
Navigation Restrictions
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User navigation is |
Select the radio button that describes desired user navigation. Free - user can view slides in any order: The user is free to view the slides in any order. Restricted - user can view only current and previous slides: The user can only view slides that have been previously viewed. Locked - user cannot change slides: The user cannot change slides - all slides are viewed in order. |
Level Expansion Settings
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Expand behavior |
Select the radio button that describes desired level expansion settings. These settings are only relevant if your presentation or e-learning course contains more than 1 level, as defined in the Slide Properties Manager. Expand level when the user reaches heading: Automatically expands sub-levels when the user reaches the parent slide. Expand level when the user is inside level: Automatically expands sub-levels when the user reaches the first sub-level beneath the parent slide. Don't automatically expand level: Sub-level slides are displayed in the slide area, but the titles are not automatically shown in the navigation; the user has to manually expand the level to view the sub-level slides. |
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Expand restrictions |
Select the radio button that describes desired expansion restrictions. These settings are only relevant if your presentation or e-learning course contains more than 1 level, as defined in the Slide Properties Manager. Levels can be expanded anytime: User can manually expand levels anytime during playback. The level cannot be expanded until the user reaches the heading: User can manually expand levels only when viewing the parent level. The level cannot be expanded until the user is inside the level: User can manually expand levels only when viewing sub-levels of a parent level. |
Miscellaneous
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Prompt to resume on presentation restart |
Whether or not the user should be prompted to resume the presentation or e-learning course from where he or she left off last time. Author should uncheck the resume option when publishing to an LMS, or if users are sharing the same machine. |
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Automatically scroll navigation to keep up with presentation |
Whether or not the slide navigation should automatically scroll to display slide titles corresponding to the current slide being viewed. |
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Enable keyboard shortcuts |
Controls whether the following Player keyboard shortcuts should be available to viewers of your published presentation in the Articulate Player:
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