Essay type quiz mandatory answer not working

Apr 09, 2019

Hi have created a course in SA with multiple Essay type questions and have ticked the User Must Answer but doesn’t seem to work. User can simply continue without any text entry.  

What am I missing to make entering something (anything) mandatory? Any help welcome. Thanks Craig 

3 Replies
Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Craig,

Sorry, you're having trouble with this out of the box - but I'd love to help! Have you added any other triggers, layers, or navigation buttons to that slide? Those could be interfering with the built-in behavior of the submit button verifying the learner has answered and clicked submit. 

If you remove those and it's still not working - could you share a copy of your .story file here with us? That way we can take a look under the hood and tackle this together. If you need to share privately, not to worry, our Support Team is standing by too! 

Craig Sainter

Thanks Ashley will send a copy when I get into work (I’m on Australian time). 

But thnk you’ve already sorted the problem as I don’t have a Submit problem as instead I added a Continue button thinking that answering would still be mandatory as I’d clicked the User must answer option. Do I just change the Continue to Submit in button actions? Or is there more to the process? If there’s a How To could you please point me to it?

thanks

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Craig,

As long as you're using the trigger to "Submit interaction" that'll validate if the learner has typed in an answer or not. You can assign that to the built-in submit button or any custom button you've added to your slide. 

Here's a quick look at changing it from the built-in submit button to one I added to an essay slide:

 

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