Invalid Answer Popup
Apr 08, 2011
Is there a way to get rid of this popup?
I have set all my colors to transparent so that the quizmaker blends into the rest of my course but when this message popups... well it looks terrible because it is mostly transparent.
I either need to keep it from popping up or I need a way to color just that box....
I am sure I could whip up some code, but I am under a deadline.
Thanks for you help.
James
9 Replies
Hi James,
It looks like you have your quiz set to "Submit one question at a time." If you can work with "Submit all at once" there is a setting that will "allow user to finish without answering all questions," which will let them bypass a given question without getting that prompt.
Not sure if that's what you're looking for.
Sarah
Hi James
You can set the quiz to no feedback which stops that popup, but this would not stop the other popups
Phil
you need to set each question to no feedback, if you want feedback you could have branching slides
Phil
Hi James!
You can turn off Feedback by Choice (none or Answer should work). Transparent backgrounds affect the feedback box.
These tips are working great to get rid of the feedback box.. Thanks!
Now I need to get rid of the "Invalid Answer" box, or alter just it's colors. This is the box that pops up if the user hits submit without answering the question.
Sarah is correct that changing it to "Submit all at once" will stop it but unfortunately that's not an option for this course.
Do you need to score the question? If not, you could make it a survey question instead, which lets you permit skipping (and that would prevent the "invalid answer" popup from appearing). A Pick One survey question would look just like a multiple choice question except that it's not scored. It has a "Require" dropdown on the question editor toolbar, where you can choose "User may skip":
The bummer is, you might not want the user to skip the question. Especially if you're using branching for the question feedback - because then the branching would get messed up ... that is, the user would just proceed in a linear way if they skip the question. If you do need to show feedback, maybe what you could do is use a single blank slide, immediately after the question to show feedback regarding both the correct and incorrect response. That way, even if they do skip the question, they'll see the feedback slide regardless.
Well it seems I am the most comfortable while in my Mad Scientist Articulate Lab. In the end I solved it with code....
My course already has a custom Flash popup box. I was able to track down the code that triggers the QM alert box and override it. It now pops up my custom alert.
Here is the final product... check out the quiz at 7:15 AM
http://frameentered.com/demos/module2/player.html
Looks nice James!
I widgetized this so that other developers could use it.
I came up with a solution that involves copying one file into the published course.
https://elearningenhanced.com/products/quizmaker-background-vanishing-powder
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