June 24, 2021
Click box with Audio – timing issues
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June 24, 2021
Click box with Audio – timing issues
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I have a video and want to add click box interaction and dialog within the click box but the video is not long enough for the audio.  So the click box audio plays but the participant can click on the box at any point and skip the audio and it moves to the next click box and that audio starts.  How can I prevent the participant from just clicking through and bypassing the voice over descriptions of the video?  I have tried many things but either the voice gets truncated or the video ends and the voice is going on with a blank screen.

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2021-09-22 17:34:07
2021-09-22 17:34:07

thank you for the question

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2021-06-25 07:25:21
2021-06-25 07:25:21

Best way would be to use a real video editor (Premiere Pro) to add the audio in the video.

I really don’t know why you are using a click box, probably with the command Play Audio if you want to ‘force’ the learner to listen to the audio? If that click box is not clicked, there will not be any audio! An interactive object like a click box is meant to be clicked.

Or are you talking about object audio, where you attached the audio to the click box, but no action? You won’t need an interactive object in that case, because it will normally have a pausing point. Maybe you took out that pausing point?

May I summarize: you want to force the learner to listen to an audio clip speaking about the video which is shorter?  This could be a possible workflow:

  • Add the audio as slide audio, which means that the slide duration will be extended to the length of the audio clip.
  • Synchonisation is apparently not needed, whether you used Play Audio or Object audio. You will need at least one static image, which can be a screenshot of one of the video frames. Add that static image either before or after the video (depending on what is important to hear/see first) for the duration which is not filled yet.

Alternative: use a button to let the learner start the video, after having listened at least partially to the slide audio. At least you give some control to the learner. However in that case the video could be skipped.

If you have set up custom navigation, forcing (hate that for adult learners) can be done by having the Next button timeline starting near the end of the slide audio.

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2021-06-25 07:20:35
2021-06-25 07:20:35

I’m not really sure I understand the user experience you’re going for, but my first hunch is to set any click-through boxes as hidden, and set advanced actions to show them upon completion of the video.

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