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Customizing Quick navigation plugin
by Suresh Kumar - Thursday, 17 August 2017, 11:01 AM
 

I have developed a course with 6 topics using the Authoring tool. The sixth topic is the course assessment. I enabled the "locklast" menu lock type option so that the users will have to complete all the 5 topics and then get into the sixth topic, assessment. Page level progress plugin is enabled too. Everything works fine. In one of the topics (topic 5), there are close to 9 sections (blocks/articles) used. In this topic 5, there are interactions like tabs, hot-grid, narrative and a few questions (not assessment type though) components are used along with a few simple text components. Some of the end users who are new to Adapt design (deep-scrolling approach) find it a bit hard to understand what they missed visiting in the topic 5. Since the next topic is assessment, the Quick navigation plugin's next button on the topic 5 just reloading the same page, when the user missed something to visit on any of the interactions on topic 5 or missed visiting any other interactive elements. it would be helpful if we can have a validation on the Quick navigation plugin's next button event, which will show a message using a pop-up overlay on each page if the user tries to move forward without completing the topic page. Any suggestions how to work with this?

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Re: Customizing Quick navigation plugin
by Matt Leathes - Thursday, 17 August 2017, 11:46 AM
 

Hi Suresh

Did you know you can get quicknav to lock the next button until the page is completed? See the setting _isEnableNextOnCompletion.

Where we've needed to deal with users new to Adapt we've also make sure that we highlight pageLevelProgress as a mechanism for finding out what you have/haven't done on the page to users at the start of the course; you can also use trickle on the page to ensure users can only continue onto the next interactive component once they have completed the current one.

Hope this helps.

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Re: Customizing Quick navigation plugin
by Suresh Kumar - Friday, 1 September 2017, 7:19 AM
 

Thanks Matt!

I have enabled the quicknav's setting _isEnableNextOnCompletion. When I tested it, the next button does not allow to move forward, which is expected. Additionally, I was looking for a pop-up with a message mentioning what action the user has to take to complete the page.

I found this plugin: https://github.com/cgkineo/adapt-pageIncompletePrompt. This helps to show a message when the page is not completed, also allows the user to move forward based on their preference.