Course Presentation Activate Active Surface Mode
Submitted by headstartoxford... on Thu, 06/30/2016 - 13:09
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HI there, it seems to be a bug in Course Presentation. It seems to be impossible to revert Activate Active Surface Mode if applied once. Please do let me know if i am wrong
falcon
Fri, 07/01/2016 - 15:14
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Hi, It is not a bug. When you
Hi, It is not a bug. When you activate it you get a message telling you that it cannot be undone :/
lushr
Wed, 07/12/2017 - 03:57
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well now i have to make that
well now i have to make that entire thing from stcratch... the warning message was not a very effective warning. i mean i needed to turn it on because i had no description of what it did, so in order to see if it did what i wanted, i had to turn it on, it gave no indication that i would disable the keywords list which i depend on for navigation.
alelorpon
Thu, 07/13/2017 - 12:51
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Well, it would have been
Well, it would have been sensible to first try it on a test presentation to see what happens when you turn it on.
You can still use "Go to slide" buttons, which can be useful for certain types of presentation.
Andres Arancibi...
Wed, 11/14/2018 - 18:39
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It could be undone
i could undone this change, just follow these steps:
- Right click over check box and go to inspect element (the source code)
- delete the "disabled" from the checkbox line
- unselect the checkbox
- save
After that, you'll see the navigator bar again.
Regards
BV52
Thu, 11/22/2018 - 04:32
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Hi Andres,Thank you for the
Hi Andres,
Thank you for the suggestion. Although I wouldn't recommend this not unless you know what you are doing. Making changes like this can cause undesirable effects on the content.
-BV52
heathhs
Mon, 06/03/2019 - 08:36
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thanks for the fix
Thanks for the fix Andres. It has just saved me a lot of time re-doing a resource that took me all day. :)
MChimp
Fri, 03/27/2020 - 11:55
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Thanks, worked!
Thanks, worked!
VisionateAcademy
Tue, 11/17/2020 - 01:46
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Is it a bug though that the
Is it a bug though that the summary screen is disabled? I am in the branching editor using course presentation and when you hit the activate surface button the summary screen is inaccessible. Is that intended behaviour?
BV52
Tue, 11/17/2020 - 18:03
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Hi,It is by design. I once
Hi,
It is by design. I once tried to use a workaround for this by creating a go to slide on the last slide to force it to go to the Summary Slide, this only leads to a blank slide.
-BV
stephania santana
Sat, 11/08/2025 - 17:00
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es complicado la
es complicado la configuracion lo que dificulta su compresion.
Irina Brovarnik
Sun, 01/26/2020 - 18:10
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librarian
Good afternoon! I accidentally pressed the button "Activate active surface mode". Help me fix the error, please.
BV52
Mon, 01/27/2020 - 18:11
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Hi Irina,As what Falcon
Hi Irina,
As what Falcon mentioned above this cannot be disabled.
-BV
imps
Wed, 08/12/2020 - 07:36
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Undo "Activate Active Surface Mode"
Following on from this discussion, we did these steps:
- Right click over check box and go to inspect element (the source code)
- delete the "disabled" from the checkbox line
- unselect the checkbox
However at this point.. DO NOT click Save....
We had to click the "copy" button once we unchecked the box, then go out of the presentation altogether, Go back into it and use the "Paste and Replace" button to overwrite the old presentation with the new version. Finally got it to work!
VisionateAcademy
Tue, 11/17/2020 - 02:18
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A bit more to it
Thanks Imps for letting us know this approach. It took me quite a while tomake it woprk because of this line
- delete the "disabled" from the checkbox line
I had no idea how to make that happen. For anyone else like me, this is the process
1. You need to expand the line that starts with <label class="H5peditor-label"..
2. Then you will see an line entry that says checkbox=disabled
3. That is the bit you have to delete, and then uncheck the box physically and follow the rest of Imps process.
ardirefo
Thu, 03/14/2024 - 16:49
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I second that!
Tried this and worked well!
IrinaSth
Wed, 11/05/2025 - 18:06
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yes, here is a video
i was able to revert it back and here is a video of how to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYG7QTnWJxY