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Help with creating a question slide
Hi all. I am very new to articulate storyline and am working with a small business to help customers choose the best down jacket for their purposes. I would like the learner to have 6 choices and be able to pick three. After picking their 3 I would like a pop up with text informing the learner about what jacket options at the shop would be best for them.
In this slide I would need 12 correct responses. I tried the pick many slide template but there is only 1 right choice. Is there a way to add "correct" responses? If not, can anyone assist me in how I could go about creating this or if there is another template to use. See picture for my slide design so far.
Thanks in advance for any help you can lend!
You're asking for someone's preferences, so there is no "correct" answer. In other words, you don't need a graded-question slide. You need a custom interaction that provides feedback based on the user's choices.
The easiest way to track a user's choice(s) is to have them click individual objects that have a Normal state and a Selected state.
- Your current set-up uses Groups, and Groups don't have states. Individual objects within a Group can have states, but using a Group in an interaction and trying to get the individual objects to change states leads to excess programming and often doesn't work anyway.
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So, first, you need to re-do all the clickable items so each clickable item is just one object (not a Group).
- For example, you could edit the Normal state of an image and insert a text-box into it with the label. Or edit the Normal state of the text box and insert the appropriate picture into it.
- Here's more info about editing states: https://community.articulate.com/series/articulate-storyline-360/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-add-and-edit-states
You also need to to use a variable if you want to limit the user to 3 choices. This post has a file that demonstrates and explains how to limit the number of choices the user can make on a "pick-many" question/interaction: TIP: Limit How Many Selections a User Can Make on a Multiple-Response (Pick-Many) Question - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
The button used to "submit" the final choices could then always show the same layer that displays different content based on which items are in the Selected state. Or it could show a specific layer based on the choices (e.g., show the Down/Durability/Travel-Size layer if those items are in the Selected state). If you want to steer the user to another slide, you'll need variables to track which items were chosen.
- This post might be helpful: TIP: Track Responses to Custom Questions or Surveys - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
It's worth the time to learn how to use variables and trigger conditions, because those provide the real power in Storyline. Here's the User Guide information about trigger conditions and variables:
Thank you for the detailed response. I have made a slide in this guide using states, but haven\t explored variables yet. I will review your feedback and work on integrating it.
