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.
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.
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. :(
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.
It's funny this feature isn't available yet. It's clearly been an issue for a number of years. I found this thread because I was trying to figure out how to flip a question type in my quiz bank. Bummer!
Wendy, With a multiple-choice question, you can select multiple options. If you use this format and offer both True and False choices, users will be able to select both choices.
The best way to go about changing a multiple-response question to a single-response question is to create the newly formatted question and then copy and paste the content of the old question into the new question. The feature request for changing this process has been submitted. This conversation will be updated when new information becomes available.
If there is anything else you need, please reach out!
Couldn't it be as as simple as adding an option to the multiple response slides to limit the number or response options to one? It would be a huge time saving when you have 20 plus questions spread through a module.
Tacking on my support for a feature that supports changing question types from multiple choice and multiple response and vice versa. Copying and pasting content is far too time consuming when you're having to copy both question content and custom feedback content.
It is little annoyances like this that is forcing us to evaluate the new Captivate that is about to be released. We have to produce content quickly and there are so many small issues like this in Storyline that cause delays in development. Not sure if Captivate will be the answer, but now have to evaluate and see if it is time to switch back.
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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.
This is still not available as a feature :(
It's funny this feature isn't available yet. It's clearly been an issue for a number of years. I found this thread because I was trying to figure out how to flip a question type in my quiz bank. Bummer!
Wendy,
With a multiple-choice question, you can select multiple options. If you use this format and offer both True and False choices, users will be able to select both choices.
Hi Daniel,
Are you running into an issue that we can help with?
Multiple-choice questions only allow one response. Multiple-response questions will allow more.
Is there still no way to switch a multiple response to single response?
Hi Erin,
The best way to go about changing a multiple-response question to a single-response question is to create the newly formatted question and then copy and paste the content of the old question into the new question. The feature request for changing this process has been submitted. This conversation will be updated when new information becomes available.
If there is anything else you need, please reach out!
Couldn't it be as as simple as adding an option to the multiple response slides to limit the number or response options to one? It would be a huge time saving when you have 20 plus questions spread through a module.
I agree, it would certainly be more efficient to be able to change the question type between multiple choice / multiple response and vice versa...
Tacking on my support for a feature that supports changing question types from multiple choice and multiple response and vice versa. Copying and pasting content is far too time consuming when you're having to copy both question content and custom feedback content.
Yes this ability to flip between question types would be a great feature.
It is little annoyances like this that is forcing us to evaluate the new Captivate that is about to be released. We have to produce content quickly and there are so many small issues like this in Storyline that cause delays in development. Not sure if Captivate will be the answer, but now have to evaluate and see if it is time to switch back.