Assistance required please, if possible. Issue with snapping!!

Ben,

How about this option. If the letter selected is placed on an incorrect box, it will return to the letter pool. The correct letter selected will snap to the box that is correct. Take a look at your file I've modified and attached.

Hi Dennis

Thank you for taking a look and responding - appreciated. I did consider doing that but I really wanted the learner to complete the words and then hit submit otherwise they could just simply move the letters until they 'snapped' to a box.

I'm sure this functionality should be possible - snap to 'free' seems the most obvious but it always snaps to centre of a correct tile regardless!

Thanks anyway :-)

Ben

Hi Ben,

When I opened your file I noticed you didn't have an drop targets set up in the form view - that could be why you're only seeing them snap to the one you set up as a part of the trigger. If you enabled all those rectangles as drop targets, and assign them to their correct ones, anything dropped in them should snap to place - and then you could remove the extra triggers you've added, as including additional triggers to the drag and drop set up will override the built in drag and drop options. 

Hi Ashley

Thank you for looking and responding.

I appreciate the suggestion - is there a way of selecting multiple drop points per letter in form view? As there are multiple same letters (6 letter Es for example) I want the learner to be able to put an E on any of the right drop zones and it be correct, not just a certain one. Hope that makes sense!

thanks again

Ben

Hi Ben,

Ah, that would explain the custom triggers - I wasn't even thinking about the duplicate letters. Unfortunately you can't have more than one correct drop target. So that explains your trigger set up....but then it'll override the snapping features. Can't have it all I guess...? 

Perhaps someone in the community has ideas in regards to creating items that snap back. 

Haha, what do you mean I can't have it all - it is 2016 ;-)

I think I can probably live with it as it is but I really appreciate your help and suggestions. Thanks again and have a great weekend.

Ben

Hi there,

Well it seems you can have it all! I thought I would take your advice Ashley and set the drop zones in the form view, even though you can only set one letter per zone. I thought at least this would mean every square was a designated zone as far as the rag and drop elements was concerned, and if triggers did take priority over d&d zones then the rules would still work - which it did. Problem solved. Now all the letters snap to centre whether right or wrong and you can place duplicate letters on multiple different zones and still be correct.

One thing I did find thought is that if the slide had been completed successfully previously and the learner went back to do it again (for whatever reason), it would show as correct, even if it wasn't. To get around this I added triggers for each of the letters to reset the variable to false at the start of the timeline.

Hope this helps others.

Thanks

Ben

Happy to hear that Ben - I've seen it not work too, so just be careful and don't change much once you get it set up!

How was it showing as correct? With all the items in their final destinations or as a part of the review element? The drag and drop questions don't "reset" by default on a revisit to the slide, but if you've allowed the users to reattempt they can drag the items again.