Are you looking for a way to make e-learning courses more dynamic and engaging? Look no further than drag-and-drop interactions. Drag-and-drop interactions give your learners the opportunity ...
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Hi Greg! Thanks for posting your question. A few features that could help you achieve exactly the customization you're looking for would be 1) variables and 2) drag-and-drop states. Are you familiar with these handy features?
For example, take a look at this example (included in the above article)
http://articulate-heroes-authoring.s3.amazonaws.com/Nicole/Demos/Drag-Drop-CanadianGeo/DD-CanadianGeo-output/story_html5.html
This Freeform drag-and-drop makes use of the drag-and-drop states that are built into Storyline. You can read more about them here:
https://community.articulate.com/articles/3-cool-ways-to-use-storyline-states
Notice how when you click the submit button for that interaction, the ones that are incorrect turn red? That's a way you can provide partial feedback to your learners. I can do this so that when learners click submit they know which steps are correct, and which are wrong.
It's really all about how you want your interaction to work. You can customize the drag-and-drop interaction as much as you want by adding more triggers to the submit button that display more/less custom captions & hints and information to your learners depending on how they answered the question. The possibilities really are endless with Storyline! But diving deeper into variables and drag-and-drop states is probably your answer here.
Hope this helps!
For example, take a look at this example (included in the above article)
http://articulate-heroes-authoring.s3.amazonaws.com/Nicole/Demos/Drag-Drop-CanadianGeo/DD-CanadianGeo-output/story_html5.html
This Freeform drag-and-drop makes use of the drag-and-drop states that are built into Storyline. You can read more about them here:
https://community.articulate.com/articles/3-cool-ways-to-use-storyline-states
Notice how when you click the submit button for that interaction, the ones that are incorrect turn red? That's a way you can provide partial feedback to your learners. I can do this so that when learners click submit they know which steps are correct, and which are wrong.
It's really all about how you want your interaction to work. You can customize the drag-and-drop interaction as much as you want by adding more triggers to the submit button that display more/less custom captions & hints and information to your learners depending on how they answered the question. The possibilities really are endless with Storyline! But diving deeper into variables and drag-and-drop states is probably your answer here.
Hope this helps!
Well THAT was fast - thanks for getting back right away! This is helpful. I hadn't gotten to the Canadian geography example when I wrote - the sales example sparked me because it illustrated a frustration I've had with designing DnD interactions so I just started typing!
I'm off to go play with Freeform. Thanks for guiding me!
(correcting a URL above - it got an extra ")" at the end that leads us astray) https://community.articulate.com/articles/3-cool-ways-to-use-storyline-states
I'm off to go play with Freeform. Thanks for guiding me!
(correcting a URL above - it got an extra ")" at the end that leads us astray) https://community.articulate.com/articles/3-cool-ways-to-use-storyline-states
- You're very welcome Greg, thanks for leaving a thoughtful and detailed comment. I'm sure others in the community share the same very thought that you did and also didn't know about the drag-and-drop states. They are a little known feature. You might want to stay tuned because this article was actually just 1 in a series of 4 articles I'm writing all about Storyline drag-and-drops. I'm also going to dive deeper into Freeform slides and how to use & customize them (including mentioning the drag-and-drop states) and I will also have a few other articles that explore other drag-and-drop features and also general design tips for creating d-and-ds. And thanks for letting me know about the typo in the URL ! Fixed it :)