Dear community I received the job to transpose an existing quiz from Captivate (6) to Storyline. I have several type of questions I could not transpose 1-on-1 and had to find ways around the "limitations" or rather differences of Storyline. One type of question I simply don't arrive at a usable solution is the multiple dropdown boxes per page question type. The user has to select the correct suggestions from a couple of dropdown boxes. Within Captivate this question type is closely related to fill in the blank, just instead of a user input you can give suggestions as a dropdown box. Captivate allows virtually unlimited blanks on a slide. I cannot replicate this in any way, as Storyline only accepts 1 dropdown box per page. Please see the screenshot below to get an idea of what it looks like now and where I would like to get at. Any suggestions...? Thanks in advance, of course.

Hi Christine and Joel, I made two Screenrs (Parts one and two) about simulating a multiple choice drop-down Part one Part two May get you started, Joel.

Ok, the matching drop-down approach did not work as I need several drop-down menues with different content. They may - coincidentally - have the same content, based on the question, but usually they don't. With - again - a lot of trigger work I seem to have gotten it to work using inspiration from this forum thread: http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/20264/112881.aspx You may have a look on how/what I did using the story file attached below. Note the check boxes, they of course will be hidden in the final quiz, are there for debugging purposes. While this works, it is very complicated to set up, time consuming and especially prone to creator error. I can imagine messing such a slide up at some point in time at 4:55pm, 5 minutes before going home... Does anyone have any ideas how the creation process of such a slide could be improved as in simplified as well as sped up? Thanks in advance for your participation, brainstorming and any ideas.

Hi Jon! Looks like Crystal was able to pop in and assist you here. If you just need multiple 'wrong' answers, a word bank question type may be helpful as well perhaps. Just an idea and hopefully others in the community will chime in to share their ideas.

Hi Joël, Correct, this isn't currently a built-in option in Storyline. However, one option would be to use multiple questions on one slides. There are a few discussions on this topic that you may want to check out. Keep in mind they are not specific to the Drop-down quiz type, but the methods may still help you out. Numeric Question with Multiple EntryFields Multiple text fields on a single quiz slide [SOLUTION] There's also a knowledge base article that may help: Articulate Support > How to evaluate multiple fill-in-the-blanks on the same slide Another option may be to create a free form quiz and simulate the appearance of a drop-down menu for each field you'd like to use. I hope this helps! Good luck with the project If you're able to set this up, I'm sure others would appreciate any tips or advice for this type of quiz setup. Thanks!

Nice job, Rebecca! Thanks for sharing You get cake.. or cookies.. or cookies and cake! Have an awesome weekend Christine

Quizzing: multiple dropdown boxes per slide?

AntonySnow
Community Member
12 years ago

Hi Joel,

I looked at your file last night and now that I have seen what you are trying to achieve, I can now see why my suggestion of using a matching drop-down won't achieve what you are trying to do - sorry.

As you require 3 drop-down lists that contain a mixture of answers (which isn't built-in to Storyline) I will bow to Rebecca and Christine on this - it may not be a simple solution, but it does at least work.

If you do manage to find a more elegant way of building this type of interaction, it would be great if you could share it.
jonstewart
Community Member
8 years ago
Hi, I am using Articulate 360 and have the same problem. I need to create a drop down interaction with several "wrong" options, so the question is not too easy for the learners.

Is this still not possible without creating a custom drop down menu?
- Crystal-Horn
  Staff
  8 years ago
  Hi Jon! Matching Drop-down questions are designed to only have answers that match with each one of the choices. Custom drop-down menu would be the way to go here! You could use a freeform question type and build from there.
BrianGlover-8e8
Community Member
6 years ago
Hi folks, I'm in the same predicament as Joël... I'm using Storyline 3 and I need to embed multiple dropdown menus within one paragraph, so the learner can select the correct word from each dropdown to make the paragraph complete. Again, as Joël states, this would take mere minutes in Captivate, but I can't seem to figure out how to do this in Storyline, even with a freeform slide. Can anyone point me to a step-by-step tutorial? Anything?
AlyssaGomez
Staff
6 years ago
Hey Brian!

This tutorial should spark some ideas: How to Create a Drop-down List Interaction.

If you're open to using another type of interaction, try creating a fill-in-the-blank instead of using dropdown menus. Simply add blank spaces in the paragraph where learners can drag and drop words from a bank. You could use a freeform drag-and-drop slide to design this interaction. Would that be an option?
BrianGlover-8e8
Community Member
6 years ago
Hi Alyssa, thank you for the suggestion and the link - I'll investigate :)
jiuease
Community Member
4 years ago
This information has been superb. I am operating in Storyline 3. However, the URL + question string link does now not work if I have a video (wmv or mov are the formats we are the usage of) inserted on the slide, see more detail. Any guidelines on how to get the URL + query string to paintings with a video?
ChristianGray-M
Community Member
2 years ago
This may not be the right place to ask this, but how do I change the color of the highlight for the dropdown menu options?
EricSantos
Staff
2 years ago
Hi Christian,

Good question; I'm happy to help with this! You can change the highlight color for the dropdown menu options by editing the Custom 2 color in the Storyline Theme Colors, as shown below.

You can use this article for reference:

Customizing Theme Colors in Storyline 360

If you require any further information, please let me know!