Hot Spot wont show correct answer

This happens because of your custom submit button. Clicking this button is submitted as the location of the last click, which is not your hotspot and therefore incorrect. Try something like the attached, where the submit button is on another layer.

Hi Gordon,

It looks like you're getting some help from Michael, but if you need anything else please let us know. 

Hi Michael,

Your version works great, so thanks so much for the help.  But I am not getting the concept of why my version did not work.  I read your explanaiton and maybe I am just dense today but it's not jelling with me.

Hi Gordon,

I took a snapshot of your original set up to point out what Michael was referring to. If you look at the attached, you'll see the hotspot indicator (that black and white circle) over the submit button - as a hotspot question takes into account any clicks on the slide. Michael's example has a new layer that when the user clicks on the hotspot shows the submit button, and therefore it's not counting it as a part of the hotspot. 

Thanks Ashley for clarifying my 'techno-babble', a picture  IS worth a thousand words!

Happy to help Michael!

H Ashley,

So what you are saying is that even though the learner clicks on the correct area around the C key that I identified as a hotsopt 1, the slide then thinks the learner 'changed their mind" and thougt the submit button was the correct choice for the C keey, and SL submits that choice at thr same time. 

I am not sure why SL would do that  Is it a glitch, or intended?

It's intended. The slide is allowing you to change your answer in case you clicked on the wrong part of the image. Storyline doesn't know it's correct until the submit trigger checks it against what you've set up. Since your submit button is a part of the slide, Storyline is allowing it to be a part of the hotspot interaction. If you don't want to use the method Michael shared you could change the action associated with the Submit trigger - say when the user's mouse hovers over the submit button, or when they click on the correct hotspot? I don't think that these are as intuitive as using the Submit button, but you may find the behavior better suited to what you'd like to set up. 

I know this post was from ages ago but I just ran into this (still a problem in 2021) and the separate layer for the submit button solved the problem.  E-Learning Heroes has never let me down!  Thank you.

I'm glad that this conversation is still helping folks, Joanne. I appreciate you chiming in to share.