Is there anyway to add a RESET option when creating a Drag and Drop activity. I love using the Freeform options when creating quizzes but it would be nice to have a RESET button on Drag and Drop questions when students don't get the correct answers and to make it easy for them to Try Again. Is a Reset option something they can add to a future update under the Drag and Drop options?

Here is another way to return dragged objects to the original starting point for multiple retry attempts without having to use a variable: 1. place an add motion animation onto each drag object. 2. set the start and end points to the same point (when the drag object is in its original spot) 3. set duration to 00.10 4. on the Try Again layer - and on the Try Again button set a new trigger for each of the drag objects. (Move 'object' on LineMotionPath1 when the user clicks Try Again button and that's all you need to do! :) cheers Gerry

Hi Kimberly, I would change your trigger on the Try Again layer from "hide this layer" to "jump to slide X" and just have it jump back to your base layer. Make sure sure you base layer settings is When Revisiting: Reset to initial state. Hope this helps!

Hi Kimberly, That makes sense! So I played around and here's what I'd do: 1. Create Variable: TryAgain (Type: Number/ Value:0) 2. On your TryAgain layer, create the following trigger: Add 1 to TryAgain when user clicks TryAgain variable 3. On your Base layer, add the following trigger: Show layer Incorrect when user clicks the Submit button IF TryAgain is greater than or equal to 2. NOTE: You can change the number 2 to however many attempts you'd like to give the learner. There might be a simpler way to accomplish this, but I went ahead and attached an example. Good luck!

I am having a similar issue, and have come up with a workaround for free form drag and drop (within a question bank), but have not been able to reset to original state using a question bank. Is there a way to single out (jump to) a particular quiz question slide within a question bank to essentially get the question to reset to its original state? I will post the scenario momentarily in case some may find the first work around useful.

Hi Kimberly! Ashley is out of the office today, so I'm trying to catch up on your conversation here. I took a look at your file and I'm assuming you've now got it to look something like the attached. The left was your original file and the right is the updated one attached. Your story was choosing to go to the Incorrect Layer when Try Again had already been reached. This is why you could not get to the Correct layer if correct. You were overriding the built-in settings. By moving it to the Try Again Layer, this would eliminate this override. You change it to when the timeline starts because you do not have a Submit button on this layer. I hope that makes a bit more sense?! It can be confusing. I talk out loud when needed to help it make sense.

Drag and Drop RESET option | Articulate

LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
9 years ago
No worries Kimberly. I know I would agree that it can be mine as well sometimes :) Good luck with the rest of your project.
GraciaGoldberg-
Community Member
8 years ago
Hi,

I've tried following the steps listed in this forum as well as another on the same topic, and I can't seem to get my project to work correctly. I'd like to give the learner two tries on this drag & drop question (essentially bringing them to the "Try Again" layer after 1 attempt and then to the "Incorrect" layer after the 2nd attempt), and I'd like the slide to Reset to Initial State in between these attempts so that the draggables all go back to their initial positions. I've attached my slide for reference, is anyone able to help me out with figuring out what I'm doing wrong?

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!
DragDropReset.story39.2 MB
- NancyWoinoski
  Super Hero
  8 years ago
  Hi Gracie, all you have to do is change the order of the button triggers on your Try Again layer.
  
  You have it set so that when the user clicks the Try again button, it jumps to 1.1 before the trigger to increment the count for Q3 is executed so this means the number is never increased.
  
  Just move the add trigger so that it comes before the jump trigger and it should work.
  - SaraObernesser-
    Community Member
    3 years ago
    Thank you so much!! I've been trying so many different combinations, it was just a simple change of the order!
AliciaRosenq551
Community Member
8 years ago
You are a hero Nancy! I was trying to do this and could not for the life of me figure out why it was not working. Moving the triggers was the fix! I appreciate it!
CraigLindeman
Community Member
8 years ago
Here is the .story file (built in Storyline2). Please let me know if it did not come through right, as this is my first posting and I am a bit of a noob with it. Please forgive the stripped down version, but it seems to work fine... Question 2 is where I want the word to go back to the bank after clicking try again... I hope Question 1 might help others too (make sure to check Allow only one item in each drop target from the Drag&Drop options for it to work). I might just rebuild the word banks to drag and drop. if I cant get word bank to behave...
DragDropReturn.story1.1 MB
AnnamaeTrypus-4
Community Member
7 years ago
I was able to use your help in my project. Thank you so much!
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
7 years ago
Glad this thread was able to help you out as well Annamae :)

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AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
7 years ago
Thanks, Gerry - love to see the additional ideas and examples.
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
6 years ago
So glad this was able to help you out as well LaToya! Thanks for chiming in to share :)

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BrentThomas-e82
Community Member
6 years ago
Amazing. Thanks Gerry. So simple.
- GerryMcAteer-86
  Community Member
  6 years ago
  Cheers Brent glade you were able to use it :)
KimberlyLococo-
Community Member
6 years ago
I just ran into another question on this post I started 3 yrs ago. Is there a way to TURN OFF the Reset function if students want to return to this slide for review purposes? Since the slide properties are set to Reset to Initial State, they can't come back to this slide to see what they answered. I like to allow students the option click the Previous buttons to review the content but this slide comes up with the question in it's original state and only the Submit button is available. They have NO way to review what they answered on this slide or review any slides prior to this one.

I tried creating a new True/False variable attached to the Continue button on the Correct/Incorrect layers and then added triggers to turn off the Submit button and make the Previous/Next buttons visible once they activate the variable. However, the Reset slide property must erase any variable adjustments because I still can only return to this slide in it's original state with the Submit button. Very frustrating! Thanks!