This is a tip I originally found on Dave Perso’s blog. It took me a while to see the advantage of this but after some experimentation with a series of courses that I am currently developing I found it invaluable. In this early example I had the user navigating via the engage interaction navigation bar.
I made this decision because I wanted to restrict the user to the options within sub menus.
After extensive user testing, however, I found that there many users liked the ability to follow through a course using the control panel.
This left me with a challenge. How could I get the users back to the sub menu with on onscreen link from engage? Ahhah! That’s when I remembered Dave Perso’s blog. It’s a hack into Articulate presenter but it works:
In your engage interaction create a hyperlink on a piece of your text.
In the URL setting add this code: asfunction:_level44.playSlide,21 (The final number is the number of the slide that you want to link to - in this case number 21). These hacks works fine, but only do it once you have your slide numbers finalised. If you change the number or order of slides, it may well be the case that you have to re-assign the hyperlink.
