Corey did you just want to change the width of the answer choices? You can do that by switching to slide view of the question editor - but they all change together (i.e., it's not possible to make each answer choice a different size). The text is automatically sized to fit, so that the containers for the answer choices all stay the same size.
I would love to have the freedom of modifying the text size, and shape of each of the text boxes individually. Most of the time my text in each box is so different in length that it looks funny.. one line has two rows of information, and the next may have two words. I have submitted a request for this feature.
My question is similar but about matching drag and drop.
I can't seem to find a way to change the size of the boxes on the left (which all contain only one or two words) to allow more room for the matching answer boxes on the right (which all contain two or three lines of text). The display therefore looks very uneven as I can't find a way, if there is one, to have all the text the same size.
Is the answer that this isn't an option at the moment or am I missing something?
The matching drag and drop questions don't provide a lot of customizability when it comes to resizing. You can resize the whole set of drag/drop pairs, but you can't resize one side without resizing the other.
But here's a workaround I've used in the past when I've had a really short word or phrase on the left and longer text on the right: If you switch to Slide View of the question editor, you can resize (widen) the entire set of drag/drop pairs until the right-hand side is the width you want. The left-hand side can extend off of the slide, and it's okay if the terms aren't on the visible part of the slide... you can add your own textboxes for the terms, and position them on top of the left-hand puzzle pieces. (Or, another approach would be to right-justify the answer choice text, but that would result in the matching pieces being right-justified too, and you might not want that.)
To make the puzzle pieces on the left look a little nicer, I also drew a rectangle over the left edge, and used a fill color to match my slide background, so it wouldn't be quite as obvious that the boxes were actually extending past the left border of the slide.
Maybe this would be a workable solution for you too.
I've also included using a multiple response question type for a question about an image along the lines of your paintbrushes etc sample which I saw recently - thanks for that too!
Sorry for resurecting and old thread but can anyone tell me how i modify items that are hidden by the scroll bar? I have a drag and drop question with ten items. I can easily modify the first five but can't see the rest to modify them. There must be some way to scroll down or show them so they can be formated.
Okay, I am having the opposite issue from the example above. I need the LEFT column to be the one with multiple lines of text and the RIGHT side to have one word. If I take Jeannette's example above and RIGHT justify, the right column looks funny. I've attached a picture. Any ideas??!
Yeah, those are some pretty long statements to work with. You might be better off splitting this question out into four multiple-choice questions (one for each scenario) - that way the learner doesn't have so much to digest on one slide. If you don't have the flexibility to do that, another idea is to maybe redo the question as a Sequence Dropdown, which would give you a little more space to work with - you'd just need to add your own textboxes next to the selector, like I've done in the screenshot below. Also, with this approach you wouldn't be able to shuffle the dropdown choices (not sure if you mind that or not).
In any case, I've attached the quiz file in case that's helpful to you.
I'm having the opposite problem of text size. The answers in the right hand boxes are all coming up in different size fonts even though the number of words in the answer are approx. the same. I cannot change this in slide view, when I try to change the font size, only the words on the right change. There is a large discrepancy between sizes, some of the boxes are so tiny as to be unreadable.
Is it possible to change the COLOR of the numbers in a numbered sequence drag and drop... i can't select that and am not sure if a template setting might do the trick.
I can see how this all works in QuizMaker, but how to do something similar in Storyline? I tried the above in Storyline, to change the color of the number, and it didn't work. Perhaps I missed something (I got it to work fine in Studio)
FYI, another community member and I had been trying to resolve other Storyline drag/drop format issues here:
Here was a question: Now I want to change the color of the sequence drag and drop shapes to match my course.
Just checked, and so far no one has jumped in with a yea (it can be done and here's how) or nay (nope, don't waste your time, but you can put in for a feature request). Can you help?
Hi Becky - yes, you're right, there's currently an issue in Storyline that's causing the formatting on sequence drag/drop questions to behave differently than it should. Stay tuned; there will be a fix coming. I'll reply in the other thread too; thanks for the heads-up!
Where did you find those text boxes that piece together? I am trying to make a drag and drop activity in Articulate Storyline 2 and cannot figure out how to get those!
The ones I referred to above are from Quizmaker, not Storyline. I'm a Studio user (rather than Storyline) so afraid I don't know whether they are available to you there.
Hi Pierce! This is pretty standard question format, but a common question. You would need to look at a freeform question type for customization of the actual shapes/sizes.
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That's not currently possible. Feel free to submit a feature request for that:
http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/feature/
Corey did you just want to change the width of the answer choices? You can do that by switching to slide view of the question editor - but they all change together (i.e., it's not possible to make each answer choice a different size). The text is automatically sized to fit, so that the containers for the answer choices all stay the same size.
I would love to have the freedom of modifying the text size, and shape of each of the text boxes individually. Most of the time my text in each box is so different in length that it looks funny.. one line has two rows of information, and the next may have two words. I have submitted a request for this feature.
Thanks
Morning!
My question is similar but about matching drag and drop.
I can't seem to find a way to change the size of the boxes on the left (which all contain only one or two words) to allow more room for the matching answer boxes on the right (which all contain two or three lines of text). The display therefore looks very uneven as I can't find a way, if there is one, to have all the text the same size.
Is the answer that this isn't an option at the moment or am I missing something?
Thanks ...
Hi Barbara,
The matching drag and drop questions don't provide a lot of customizability when it comes to resizing. You can resize the whole set of drag/drop pairs, but you can't resize one side without resizing the other.
But here's a workaround I've used in the past when I've had a really short word or phrase on the left and longer text on the right: If you switch to Slide View of the question editor, you can resize (widen) the entire set of drag/drop pairs until the right-hand side is the width you want. The left-hand side can extend off of the slide, and it's okay if the terms aren't on the visible part of the slide... you can add your own textboxes for the terms, and position them on top of the left-hand puzzle pieces. (Or, another approach would be to right-justify the answer choice text, but that would result in the matching pieces being right-justified too, and you might not want that.)
To make the puzzle pieces on the left look a little nicer, I also drew a rectangle over the left edge, and used a fill color to match my slide background, so it wouldn't be quite as obvious that the boxes were actually extending past the left border of the slide.
Maybe this would be a workable solution for you too.
Thanks Jeanette. This looks just right.
I've also included using a multiple response question type for a question about an image along the lines of your paintbrushes etc sample which I saw recently - thanks for that too!
BK
Another question along the same lines.
Is there a way to change the color of the boxes (or the fields in Sequence Drag and Drop)?
Thanks, JP
Sorry for resurecting and old thread but can anyone tell me how i modify items that are hidden by the scroll bar? I have a drag and drop question with ten items. I can easily modify the first five but can't see the rest to modify them. There must be some way to scroll down or show them so they can be formated.
disreguard this question... can't be done in this way, I have changed to matching drop down.
Okay, I am having the opposite issue from the example above. I need the LEFT column to be the one with multiple lines of text and the RIGHT side to have one word. If I take Jeannette's example above and RIGHT justify, the right column looks funny. I've attached a picture. Any ideas??!
Hi Bridget!
Yeah, those are some pretty long statements to work with. You might be better off splitting this question out into four multiple-choice questions (one for each scenario) - that way the learner doesn't have so much to digest on one slide. If you don't have the flexibility to do that, another idea is to maybe redo the question as a Sequence Dropdown, which would give you a little more space to work with - you'd just need to add your own textboxes next to the selector, like I've done in the screenshot below. Also, with this approach you wouldn't be able to shuffle the dropdown choices (not sure if you mind that or not).
In any case, I've attached the quiz file in case that's helpful to you.
or drag the scenario to the emotion as your question stem describes.
Hi,
I'm having the opposite problem of text size. The answers in the right hand boxes are all coming up in different size fonts even though the number of words in the answer are approx. the same. I cannot change this in slide view, when I try to change the font size, only the words on the right change. There is a large discrepancy between sizes, some of the boxes are so tiny as to be unreadable.
What can I do?
Thanks!
Can you post a screen cap of the offending question? We might be better able to point you to a possible solution.
Is it possible to change the COLOR of the numbers in a numbered sequence drag and drop... i can't select that and am not sure if a template setting might do the trick.
Hi Alexander! Yep, you can do that - the color on the numbers is actually controlled via the color theme, and here's how you can change it:
Hi Jeanette,
I can see how this all works in QuizMaker, but how to do something similar in Storyline? I tried the above in Storyline, to change the color of the number, and it didn't work. Perhaps I missed something (I got it to work fine in Studio)
FYI, another community member and I had been trying to resolve other Storyline drag/drop format issues here:
http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/13193/78591.aspx#78591
Here was a question: Now I want to change the color of the sequence drag and drop shapes to match my course.
Just checked, and so far no one has jumped in with a yea (it can be done and here's how) or nay (nope, don't waste your time, but you can put in for a feature request). Can you help?
Hi Becky - yes, you're right, there's currently an issue in Storyline that's causing the formatting on sequence drag/drop questions to behave differently than it should. Stay tuned; there will be a fix coming. I'll reply in the other thread too; thanks for the heads-up!
Thanks Jeanette.
That did the trick.
Hi Barbara & community members,
Where did you find those text boxes that piece together? I am trying to make a drag and drop activity in Articulate Storyline 2 and cannot figure out how to get those!
Thanks!
-Pierce
Morning Pierce
The ones I referred to above are from Quizmaker, not Storyline. I'm a Studio user (rather than Storyline) so afraid I don't know whether they are available to you there.
Barbara
Hi Pierce!
The same question type is available in Storyline 2. Looks like they were using a matching Drag and Drop.
So go to New Slide/Insert Slide > Quizzing > Graded > Matching Drag and Drop
Thanks Leslie! Do you know if it's possible to resize the puzzle pieces that match together?
Hi Pierce! This is pretty standard question format, but a common question. You would need to look at a freeform question type for customization of the actual shapes/sizes.
Leslie, can you give me the link to request a feature? Seems like something worth adding if that's a common question!
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