This forum is always a great help and looks like I need your advice again!
I am setting up a fill-in-the-blank question and have typed all "acceptable answers" in form view.
All of the acceptable answers are being registered as correct when I test this question, except for one. I've tried moving that answer around, but it still says it's incorrect when I type it in.
Good call - it does have an apostrophe in it! It's a very basic question, with one of the answers being "do not," and another one being "don't." The don't is the one that's not being accepted as a correct answer.
Can the apostrophe be the problem?
Can't share it at the moment, but may have to get permission in case I can't resolve this..
Unfortunately, if you use fill-in-the-blank or text-entry questions with answers that require apostrophes, you may find that the questions are always marked incorrect—even when learners correctly enter answers with apostrophes.
This is a known issue. It'll be fixed in a forthcoming software update for Articulate Storyline. Enable the Check for updates at startup feature to be notified when new updates are available.
Thank you for letting me know ! I was going crazy thinking that maybe I did something wrong. Hopefully not too many of the users try to type in the apostrophe, and I will try to find a way to work around that.
Leslie, I'm using SL3 and my responses to a graded fill in the blank question can't have any quotes (") in them. In my industry we use " as the symbol for inches.
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Hi Anna,
Is there anything different about that answer - maybe a special character, a symbol like an apostrophe, etc.?
Are you able to share that one question slide so that we can take a look?
Hi Ashley,
Good call - it does have an apostrophe in it! It's a very basic question, with one of the answers being "do not," and another one being "don't." The don't is the one that's not being accepted as a correct answer.
Can the apostrophe be the problem?
Can't share it at the moment, but may have to get permission in case I can't resolve this..
Thank you!
Hi Anna,
Unfortunately, if you use fill-in-the-blank or text-entry questions with answers that require apostrophes, you may find that the questions are always marked incorrect—even when learners correctly enter answers with apostrophes.
This is a known issue. It'll be fixed in a forthcoming software update for Articulate Storyline. Enable the Check for updates at startup feature to be notified when new updates are available.
Hi Ashley,
Thank you for letting me know ! I was going crazy thinking that maybe I did something wrong. Hopefully not too many of the users try to type in the apostrophe, and I will try to find a way to work around that.
Thanks again for the quick response!
No problem Anna - glad I could provide a quick answer.
Has there been a work around developed for this issue because I'm trying to use a quote (") in an answer and it won't recognize it as correct.
This discussion revolved around the find function, but may still be germane to your problem.
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/find
Hi Paul,
We do have an issue reported for Storyline 2 when viewing the HTML5 output. Is that what you're seeing as well?
Wow Walt! That's got to be the problem. Too bad there's no fix.
Leslie, I'm using SL3 and my responses to a graded fill in the blank question can't have any quotes (") in them. In my industry we use " as the symbol for inches.
Thanks for sharing Paul. I was able to create a similar issue in a new file and I will get this reported to the team.
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