Configure the playback and navigation settings of your player.

  1. Click Playback and Navigation on the toolbar.



  2. Customize the playback and navigation parameters.



Table 1. Configuring playback and navigation

Resume playback
On restart

Set up the playback of the course when reopened.

  • Prompt to resume: When reopening the presentation, users will be able to choose from two options: to either continue the previous session or to play the presentation from the beginning

  • Always resume: The course is always resumed from where it had been previously interrupted

  • Always start over: The course is always played from the beginning
Playback
Navigation type

Select the type of course navigation:

  • Free: Users can view any slide of your presentation in any order. This type of navigation is selected by default

  • Limited: Learners can advance to the next slide according to the branching settings and return to slides that have already been viewed

  • Forward Only: Users can advance to the next slide after they viewed the current one
Enable keyboard navigation   

Enable or disable the presentation playback with your keyboard. The following keystrokes are used by default:

  • Page Up: return to the previous slide
  • Page Down: advance to the next slide
  • Left arrow: rewind
  • Right arrow: fast forward
  • Up arrow: increase volume
  • Down arrow: decrease volume
  • Space: play/pause
  • Home: restart the current slide
  • End: stop at the end of the current slide
  • Ctrl + Home: go to the first slide
  • Ctrl + End: go to the last slide
  • Backspace: return to the last viewed slide
  • Enter: move to the next animation step
  • Shift + Enter: return to the previous animation step

Set up your own key combinations to manage course playback. You can set up a maximum of three keystrokes for each action and import/export a set of shortcut keystrokes from/into a file.

Click Customize control keys to edit keyboard shortcuts.

Miscellaneous
Start presentation automaticallyEnable or disable an automatic course launch after the first slide is loaded. 
Save slide animation stateEnable or disable the preservation of the state of animated slides when users return to such a slide. This option works for trigger animations, bullets that appear on mouse clicks, etc.