Basic Questions Resource?

Hi Jane, you have a lot of questions in your question so I'll try to answer them as best I can.

First, instead of using free format for your essay slides, I suggest using a survey question because there is an essay option that will meet your requirements.  To access the survey questions, click New Slide >select Quizzing > Survey > Essay

In order to capture the answers to the survey questions and allow users to print them, you have to add a results slide to your course. You only need one results slide. To add this, click New Slide> select Quizzing> Results Slide >Survey Results Slide.

Once you have added the Results Slide go to the slide and click the Edit Result Slide button that appears to the right. You will notice that a list of all the essay questions you have added to the course appear in the Question list. Make sure the included option is selected for each of the essay questions. This will ensure the answers are included in the final results.

While still in edit mode, click the Options link and select "Allow Users to Print Results" - this will add a Print button to the Results slide. 

Ok that should be all you need to do to get the essay questions working (note the print button might not work when testing locally on your machine. Once you upload to your webserver it will function properly.  I think you might be able to test locally if you publish the course using the CD option but I am not 100% sure about that.

As for your course navigation, I am glad that you figured out how to jump from one scene to the next.  When you have an essay question, Storyline will automatically jump to the next slide when the user clicks the Submit button if the next slide is in the same scene. If the next slide is in a new scene then you have to tell Storyline which slide to jump to because it can't figure this out on its own. So you have to add a trigger as follows:

Action: Jump to slide

Slide: select the slide name you want storyline to jump to

When: user clicks

Object: Submit button

make sure this trigger comes after the submit interaction trigger because you want Storyline to submit the user's response before jumping to the new slide.

I hope this answers all your questions and is not too confusing. Just give a shout if you run into any issues.

/Nancy

Thank you Thank you Thank you - this will get me started.  I'm obsessive about prayer - and after begging God to send me an anwer I decided to open my email one last time before digging in for the long haul once again.  I am so excited about learning the software I just want to keep working at it.  But there are so many things I can't figure out on my own and 12 hours in the saddle yesterday didn't help.  I am back with renewed enthusiasm and now I have at least a few things to incorporate. 

Thank you!  (repeat till dizzy)

jane

Nancy,

You're right.  I'm new and have nobody to ask except my book and searching through the multiple communities.  

I used your expert suggestion and found the essay slide, the results slide, and the print feature.  I tested through the slides answering the questions but this is what I got. The form is there but there are no answers - which I know I entered and clicked submit.   Also I don't know how to change this form.  This course walks students through writing their personal mission statement.  It's OK, I guess to have the question printed, but there is really no correct answer. or result, or points awarded.  I really just wanted whatever was typed in the answer area of the essay to print on this page.  Any ideas? 

Hi Jane,

You may find that question and answer details are missing from your printed results when the following conditions are true:

• You completed the quiz and exited the course.
• You resumed the course and printed your results.

This is a known issue. We'll post more information here as it becomes available.

Also, in regards to editing the fields, you could use the method described here to update the report.html. 

For a printed report this is what I need.  

I used the instructions and interspersed in my course are essay questions. This is unusual because this isn't a graded course. Every answer given is written in sentences. For example: Question 1 - Tell me about a time when . . . . And the Answer is: I was stuck in Podunk for 17 hours . . .   

There are at least 12 questions like that.  In the end, the student needs to be able to print out all those questions and answers.  

I tested this out with just 5 essay questions at first.  I realized it's not working that way.  Unfortunately I'm not a programmer and while I have seen HTML, I don't code in it.  The beauty of Storyline and what sold me on it was that every place I read 'NO PROGRAMMING" and "ANYONE CAN DOT IT" so this is why I need more help than your average bear. 

Editing report.html is probably way outside my technical level. 

Hi Jane,

Are you not seeing anything in the printed results due to the set up I described which is a known issue right now? If you are seeing the results, how are you seeing them that is not working correctly?

I'll be unable to assist with editing your report.html or the published output in general, but if you're able to share more information here about what's occurring I can assist if there is an issue in your file itself or someone in the community may be able to assist with some more customized options.