How do I build a chapter menu that lets viewers review completed sections?

Short answer

Put a menu at the start of the video with one button for each section. Each button uses Change Time to jump to its section. At the end of each section, a Set Variable navigation marks it done and a Change Time navigation returns the viewer to the menu. Every button stays clickable, so viewers can review any section.

How to do it

1. Plan the timecodes: a short menu segment at the start, for example 0:00 to 0:10, then each section in order.
2. One second into the menu segment, add a Pause navigation from More > Playback & Navigation and leave Pause Length at Until interaction, so the menu waits for a choice.
3. Add one button for each section, shown for the whole menu segment. Set Click Action to Change Time and select the start of the section.
4. In each button’s Settings, set Post Click State to Change Colors so visited sections look different. Do not use Hidden or Disabled, or the viewer cannot review.
5. At the last second of each section, add a Set Variable navigation, for example section_1 with the value done.
6. Just after it, add a Change Time navigation that returns to the start of the menu, before the Pause, so the menu waits again.
7. On the menu, add a text interaction “Completed” next to each button, with Conditional Logic set to Show if section_1 Exists.
8. Add a Finish button that jumps to the closing section, and show it only when the required sections are done (see below).
9. Test the whole path in Preview.

Show Finish only after every section

An interaction can test two conditions at most. For two sections, set Finish to Show if section_1 Exists AND section_2 Exists.

For three or more sections, count them. At the end of each section, before the Set Variable for that section, add a Set Variable navigation for completed and click Increment +1. Give it Conditional Logic: Show if section_1 Does not exist, so a review does not count twice. Then show Finish if completed Is a number greater than the number of sections minus one.

Add chapters to the progress bar

The Chapters tab adds named points that viewers can jump to from the player. Chapters help viewers find a section. They do not set variables, so keep the menu buttons for tracking what is done.

Limits that affect completion

• Watch percentage counts each second of the video once. A section watched twice does not raise it, and a section the viewer never opens lowers it.
• If a completion email or certificate needs a minimum completion, set a value that a viewer can reach by watching every section once.
• Variables and post-click colors last for the viewing session. A viewer who returns later on another link starts with an empty menu.
• Conditional logic is on Pro and higher plans, and variables on Core and higher.

Test and expected result

In Preview, do this test:

• Open section 1 from the menu. Expected: it plays, then returns to the menu, and “Completed” shows next to section 1.
• Open section 1 again. Expected: it plays again and returns to the menu. Finish is still hidden.
• Complete every section. Expected: Finish appears and jumps to the closing section.

Sections as separate videos

If each section is its own video, make the menu a video of its own. Each button uses Switch Video, and each section ends with a Switch to Previous Video navigation, which returns to the menu at the time the viewer left. Variables carry over, so the same “Completed” rules work.

Go further

• Chapters
• Change Time
• Logic tutorial