Forcing Learner to View All Pages

I'm doing this in all of my courses so the TOC is not available unless a specific page in a course has been completed. In my case, I have the TOC initially hidden and have a button that toggles the visibility of the TOC. The buttons have a Hide on page show with a conditional statement:

OnPageShow: Hide

IF: undefined is not completed.

I use the next to last page in the course so that when the learner reaches the last page, the TOC buttons are visible on all pages. You could apply this to the TOC itself as well at the top of the course level using the same method.

Yes, the client requires a TOC.

Forgive me for being slow, but do you have to have a TOC?

Thanks, Jason! I am going to try this. What do you mean by "I use the next to last page in the course ..."?

Tina

By last page, I'm referring to whichever page in the course you want to start allowing the user to access the TOC. For example, you want the learner to go all the way through a test at the end of the course before they can go back. The test lands on a page called "Test Results", so I would set the IF condition to "Test Results" is not completed.

I can try and post a sample a bit later. I have a template I use for my current course curriculum that does this, except the template doesn't have a "last page" :)

I'm not a fan of the transparent button method, as it creates some potential "wonkiness" with screen readers and tab order for accessibility if you're not careful about it. Even hiding the TOC with my method is a challenge - I have to group the TOC and the buttons, then set the reading order to last, otherwise the screen reader will start in on the entire TOC and read off each page and the visited state of the page.

One way to achieve what you want is simply to place a transparent button above the TOC that covers the areas that you do not want people to skip to. The button could be set up to display a message saying something like 'These links will become active once you have completed the section'. If your content is spread over different chapters then you would use a transparent button at the top level of each chapter that covers the remaining chapters in your title (if that makes sense?).

Thank you so much for your feedback. This does make sense, and I can see how it will be very useful.

My best,

Tina

Here's the sample - I added some general descriptions and process that I used to build it. Hope it helps!

Thank you for providing an example. When I get to this page it is not showing the table of contents button. Is it supposed to show in your example? I am trying to complete the same type of function. Thanks again.