Hi all - I've customized a word search posted by another user. Love it - works great, but there's a functionality piece that I have to have before I can distribute the larger course to my learners. Below are the summary facts:
learner finds 5 words
there are 3 distractors
if the learner changes their mind, and wants to select a different word, I can't figure out how to program the 'deselect' functionality
Everyone here is always so helpful. I would be most appreciative if someone can help me salvage the 8 hours I just spent getting this word search to its current point.
I guess that if there's no fairly intuitive way to accomplish this functionality, I could remove the distractors...but I'd rather not!
As always, thank you in advance. I've uploaded the slide for reference.
I've downloaded your file but don't have time to check it out fully - just a thought
could you use a toggle trigger when the user clicks a letter. So e.g. for the word Materiality if you created aT/F default to false variable M and a T/F variable Y.
Trigger is adjust variable M Not assignment when user clicks M letter.
The variable starts out at False when the user clicks the M first time it changes to True (M letter is in selected state), when they click M letter again it is deselected and the variable changes back to False. You could then use the variable in your triggers.
Sorry I'm probably confusing you - if I get a chance later today I'll do a quick example.
Hi Wendy - Yes, I'm confused, but that's not because of anything you said! I think I've reached cognitive overload for the day. Your instructions make sense, so I will give that a try...I learn by doing, so if I can follow your instructions properly (again - a statement on me, not you!), I may be able to get it where I want it. Thank you for your response, again. I feel needy!
I see it's your end of day - start of day for me in Australia. If I get time this afternoon I'll do an example and a video - it may not work but it's worth a try. Have a great night.
My days run together...trying to meet a very aggressive deadline to have 10 mini-modules ready for our Australian member firm to pilot. :)
I'm working on it now and from what I can tell, it looks like i'll have to adjust the existing triggers that currently activate when another variable changes. I'm thinking I'll have to be more specific than 'changes'...maybe something like 'when M variable and Y variable = true.' We'll see, right?
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Hi Paula
I've downloaded your file but don't have time to check it out fully - just a thought
could you use a toggle trigger when the user clicks a letter. So e.g. for the word Materiality if you created aT/F default to false variable M and a T/F variable Y.
Trigger is adjust variable M Not assignment when user clicks M letter.
The variable starts out at False when the user clicks the M first time it changes to True (M letter is in selected state), when they click M letter again it is deselected and the variable changes back to False. You could then use the variable in your triggers.
Sorry I'm probably confusing you - if I get a chance later today I'll do a quick example.
Hi Wendy - Yes, I'm confused, but that's not because of anything you said! I think I've reached cognitive overload for the day. Your instructions make sense, so I will give that a try...I learn by doing, so if I can follow your instructions properly (again - a statement on me, not you!), I may be able to get it where I want it. Thank you for your response, again. I feel needy!
I'll respond with an update.
Hey Paula
I see it's your end of day - start of day for me in Australia. If I get time this afternoon I'll do an example and a video - it may not work but it's worth a try. Have a great night.
My days run together...trying to meet a very aggressive deadline to have 10 mini-modules ready for our Australian member firm to pilot. :)
I'm working on it now and from what I can tell, it looks like i'll have to adjust the existing triggers that currently activate when another variable changes. I'm thinking I'll have to be more specific than 'changes'...maybe something like 'when M variable and Y variable = true.' We'll see, right?
Those pesky Australians - very demanding - LOL
Hi Paula
I've done a super easy example with the word 'MAT' - see if this works how you need it to.
Sample .story file and video of how it works attached
Wendy, thank you so much for this. It will work just fine. You are a godsend.
Great news Paula, that's quite a complex interaction to build and keep track of all the triggers - good luck with it.
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