Simple to add progress completion status for your courses

This is an easy way to add a completion progress status to your projects.

This method will do the following:

• Add a progress status to each slide
• Gives a Readout of two digits (10% Completed) even for odd slides
• Can add to Master Slide or Any Slide in the Course
• Remembers the completion status even when you click back through the course

Download – Add Progress Status-sample

Step 1

Create two variables as follows:

• var_total_Progress
• var_Total_Precent

Step 2

Create an Advanced Action as follows:

What each part does in the action:

A: Checks t see If all conditions are true This checks to see if the slide number is greater than var_Total_Progress.  If it is it will run B, C, D and E.  If it is not greater then it will leave it as it is and not update the var_Total_Precent.  This is what allows the project to remember the total course completion status even when clicking back through the course.

B: Assigns one variable to another – Assigns var_Total_Progress with the current slide number.

C: Create an Expression – Assigns var_Total_Progress to var_Total_Percent as a fraction number (ie: 0.301521)

D:  Create an Expression – Makes var_Total_Percent a  percentage number with decimal placement(ie 30.1521) would not look good in the slides

E: Execute JavaScript – This rounds up the number to a full number with 0 decimal placements using two lines of JavaScript as follows

var tempVal = parseInt( window.cpAPIInterface.getVariableValue(‘var_Progress_Precent’) );

window.cpAPIInterface.setVariableValue( “var_Progress_Precent”, tempVal.toFixed( 0 ) );

Step 3

Here we need to create a text object that will hold the information for the completion status.  Enter the following in the Text Object:

Page Insert Current Slide Info Here of Inseatt Count of Slides variable here and insert the variable Progress Percent % Completed, it should look like the line of text below

Page $$cpInfoCurrentSlide$$ of $$cpInfoSlideCount$$ $$var_Progress_Precent$$% Completed

Make sure that you highlight the text where you want the variable places and click on the little [X] in the properties to insert them, otherwise if you type it in you may not get the correct result that you are expecting.

$$cpInfoCurrentSlide$$ gives the current slide number.

$$cpInfoSlideCount$$ gives the total amount of slides in the project.

$$var_Progress_Precent$$% displays our completed percentage.

Create a text object as in the image:

Select Caption Caption and rename as:

“txt_Display_Percentage_Complete”

Step 4

Here we want to make sure that we display the text object on all pages.  You can also place it on any page, for example, you may not want it to show on slide 1 or 2, in that case, you can put it on the 3rd slide and follow the same instructions below.

So place it on the first slide and then Select Text Caption and click on Timing

Select Display for and pick “Rest of Project”

Also, tick “Place Object on Top” otherwise it may get hidden under other objects.

Step 5

Now on the first slide select the grey background and go to actions and do the following:

• Select Actions and for “On Enter:” find “Execute Advanced Actions”
• In Script: select “PercentageComplete”

Step 6

Copy the slides so that we have more than 1, don’t make it an even number, this way you will see that it always gives a full rounded number each and every time.