Last week, a Captivate user had posted a question on our Facebook page. She was working on a course which had a few modules and an assessment in the end. In this course, she wanted to create a customized menu page with all the modules and assessment listed and clicking them would take the learner to respective module/assessment. The requirement was to have the learners take the modules in any order before the final assessment becomes accessible.

So here’s an answer to your question, Christine 🙂

In this example, I have created a course with four modules and an assessment. The requirement is to allow the learner to attempt the assessment section only after they have completed taking all the modules. Try it out…

So the logic used here is to check whether all the modules are visited every time the learner lands on the Menu page and show the Assessment button only when all the course modules are complete. Let’s do this magical task by using Advanced Actions and Variables.

1. First create the course with all the modules and assessment slides.
2. On the Menu page, add buttons to access the modules.
3. Add a greyed out image for the Assessment button to signify that there’s a button here, which is currently disabled.
4. Now add the actual Assessment button in the Menu page, uncheck Visible and place it on top of the greyed out image.
5. Assign On Success Action for each module and assessment to jump to respective starting screen for each module.
6. Click Project > Variables and add M1, M2, M3, and M4 variables. We will use these variables to store the module completion values for each module.
7. Click Project > Advanced Actions.
8. We need to write a set of standard actions for the Next buttons on the last screen of each module. This script will set the value of the respective variable to a defined value and jump to the Menu screen. In this example, we will set the value of the variables to 1.
9. Here’s the script for the Next button on the last screen of Module 1:
10. Script for the Next button on the last screen of Module 2:
11. Script for the Next button on the last screen of Module 3:
12. Script for the Next button on the last screen of Module 4:
13. Create a new conditional action, where you can check the values of the variables and set a condition to display the Assessment button once all the Modules are visited and values of all the variables have changed to 1.
14. Set the On Enter action for Menu screen to Execute the CheckModuleCompletion advanced action.
15. Go to the last slide of Module 1 and set the On Success action for Next button to EndofModule1 advanced action.
16. Go to the last slide of Module 2 and set the On Success action for Next button to EndofModule2 advanced action.
17. Go to the last slide of Module 3 and set the On Success action for Next button to EndofModule3 advanced action.
18. Go to the last slide of Module 4 and set the On Success action for Next button to EndofModule4 advanced action.
19. Your course is ready!

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