Make a menu slide

A Navigation slide turns a learning with several groups into chapters a learner can pick from: one card per group, a bar and a ring that show how far each chapter is, a lock on what is not open yet, and a way to the leaderboard.

Competence - a menu inside your learning - 5 min. You need: a learning with more than one group

Nothing is changed until you press Save. Cancel throws your changes away.

A menu slide as the learner sees it: four numbered chapters, a progress bar under each, a ring at 60 percent, the last chapter locked
What your learner sees: the chapters, and how far they are.

What you will be able to do

  • Add a menu slide One slide that shows all the parts.
  • Choose the cards One card per part, in the order you want.
  • Let it make the cards One press makes a card for every part.
  • Know what the learner sees Rings, bars and locks show how far they are.

Get this ready first

  • A learning No learning yet? Make one first.
  • Parts in it A menu needs parts to point at: one group per day or topic.

Do it together, one step at a time

Six steps. Every picture is the real screen, with made-up names.

  1. Open your learning

    Find the parts the menu will point at.

    • Open your learning in the editor. The column on the left is the FLOW TREE .
    • Every block in it is a group: a set of slides that play one after another - Day 1 - Welcome to Meridiaan , Day 2 - On the ward .
    • Make a group at the top for the menu itself, for example Start here - choose your day .
    • Click the group so it is selected. A new slide is added to the selected group.
    The learning editor with the flow tree: a menu group at the top and Day 1 below it with four slides
    The parts of the learning, on the left.

  2. Add a menu slide

    Pick the kind of slide that shows a menu.

    • Press Add Slide at the top right. The window Select Slide Type opens.
    • Type navigation in the search box. Two cards stay.
    • Navigation - Menu of other groups . You choose the cards yourself.
    • Auto Navigation - Menu built automatically , one card for every group.
    • Click Navigation. The slide is added and its panel opens on the right.
    Select Slide Type searched for navigation: two cards, Navigation and Auto Navigation
    Type "navigation" and two cards are left.

  3. Open the menu

    The panel on the right has one big button.

    • The panel at the right says Navigation at the top.
    • TITLE - the words above the menu, for example Your introduction week .
    • COVER IMAGE - a picture behind the menu. Not needed.
    • Press Edit navigation board. The line under it says what it does: Cards that jump to other groups in this flow.
    The Edit Slide panel of a Navigation slide with title, cover image and the Edit navigation board button
    The orange button opens the menu.

  4. Choose where each card goes

    Each card jumps to one part.

    • Every card has a TARGET GROUP : pick the group it opens, for example Day 1 - Welcome to Meridiaan .
    • TITLE (OPTIONAL OVERRIDE) - leave it on auto from target and the card uses the group's own name.
    • SUBTITLE (OPTIONAL) - one short line under the title: Your team, the building, the first coffee .
    • IMAGE URL (OPTIONAL OVERRIDE) - a picture of your own; empty takes the picture of the group.
    • The arrows top right of a card move it up or down. The cross removes it.
    Edit navigation board with Card 1 aimed at Day 1 and Card 2 aimed at Day 2, each with a subtitle
    One card per part.

  5. Add a card, then save

    One more card, or let it make them all.

    • Scroll down and press + Add card. An empty card appears at the end.
    • Pick its TARGET GROUP - here Scores - and type a title: Who knows the most?
    • ⟳ Regenerate from groups makes one card per group, in group order. Titles you typed yourself are kept.
    • Press Save at the top. Every card needs a target group; if one has none, the window says Every card needs a target group .
    • Cancel closes the window and nothing changes.
    A fifth card added at the end of the board, aimed at the Scores group, with its own title and subtitle
    Card 5, added and filled in.

  6. What your learner sees

    The learner sees the parts, and how far they are.

    • Press Play in the editor to see it yourself.
    • Every card is a numbered row: 01 , 02 , 03 . The learner taps a row to open that part.
    • The bar under a row fills as the learner goes through that part. A finished part gets a tick by its number.
    • A part that is half done shows a progress ring with the percentage: 60% .
    • A part that is not open yet is pale, with a lock.
    • When the learning has a Leaderboard slide, a Leaderboard button sits at the bottom.
    The learner menu: Day 1 done with a tick, Day 2 at 60 percent with a ring, Day 3 not started, Day 4 locked, a Leaderboard button at the bottom
    Done, half done, not started, locked.

If something is not right

Save does nothing.

One card has no part chosen. Pick one, or remove that card with the cross.

A card shows the wrong name.

Type your own words in TITLE. Empty means it uses the name of the part.

I added a new part. Is it on the menu?

Not by itself. Press Regenerate from groups, or add a card.

The menu group is not in the list.

That is on purpose. A card to the menu itself would go round in a circle.

The words on this page

group
A part of the learning: slides that play one after another.
navigation board
The list of cards on a menu slide.
progress ring
A small circle that fills up, with a percent inside.

What to do next