Change Question Type

The difference between multiple choice and multiple response is:

Multiple choice - Choose ONE answer.

Multiple response - Choose Multiple answers.

I suppose you could have a multiple response question with an answer consisting of only one choice, however, it has the possibility to allow for multiple-simultaneous answer selections to be the correct answer, if you so choose.

I do not know how to switch types, but i would like to. 

Hi Nancy,

There isn't a way to change the question type once you've set it up as such, so you'll need to look at rebuilding the question. I would suggest adding in the new question and then copying/pasting the elements onto your new slide from your existing question slide. 

Thank you both very much. I was afraid I'd have to rebuild it.

Ugh! That's a terrible oversight on Articulate's part. I hope this is a fix that's in the works.

Hi Onoda and welcome to E-Learning Heroes!

I've seen users mention it before, but you are welcome to share your thoughts with our product development team here as well.

I removed Freeform from the MR slide and re-inserted Freeform question as Pick One and it was a decent workaround for me

Thanks for chiming in to share your experience and solution Mariya. That could certainly help someone out that runs across this thread in the future.

Welcome to E-Learning Heroes by the way :)

Why has this feature still not been added to Articulate? I have just created a layout for a multiple choice question in Storyline 360 to find that I can't edit this question type to make it a multiple response question

Hi Services SMPCA and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

Thanks for reaching out. 

It looks like the users here were wanting to swap a question type once it was built. You mention a layout, so I wanted to verify what you were trying to do. Do you just mean a specific slide/question as was mentioned above or did you build a master slide for questions that you wish to apply? I just wanted to make sure I understood your question fully.

It's been our experience to keep things simple. We had encountered this frequently with our SMEs wanting to flip from multiple response to multiple choice questions. Over the years, we learned that multiple choice questions and feedback for every single answer as to why the choice is correct was most effective in elearning modules. We want to create short, simple, meaningful learning to make things stick. If you have too many busy questions, it almost becomes a distraction and noise. It makes sense to have this option in Articulate to flex rather than having to recreate the quiz. Hope that the developer will use this as an opportunity.

I too just ran into this annoyance with Storyline 3 (latest release). I was hoping there would be a way to easily change a multiple choice question into a True/False. 

I am really disappointed that Storyline doesn't allow what should be a trivial change. Yes, trivial in the sense that I could do this with other authoring tools. 

After 3 or more years of authors asking, I suspect that this functionality will never exist. :(

Hi Shawn

if you remove one of the choices it would become a True / False or am I misunderstanding your issue

Just ran into this one. Surprised they haven't added the feature yet...

It would be a great feature, especially since you can save so much time reusing existing quizzes and editing them quickly and easily.

Just so I get this right: I can create a new question slide and copy-paste all the content into an existing quiz slide and that will work? That would be an acceptable workaround for me. In an existing quiz (esp. one with complex navigation like a Jeopardy or board game with dice) it would be a nightmare to adjust all navigation triggers.