Keyboard not working as an axis while menu is visible

Hey all, my character is fine receiving input from the the keyboard as an axis in game, but when my menu is visible the keyboard does not event register as an axis input, I thought this might be the GUI taking all input from the keyboard and not letting it pass through to the character … might this be the case??

It could be. It will depend on how you are calling the GUI. Is the GUI a widget? Are you setting the controller focus? Screenshots really help in this situation.