How to resolve users being able to change their answers when they review results of their quiz?

May 26, 2020

Hello, We have a drag and drop question in our quiz. When users complete the quiz they can review and see which answers were correct/incorrect throughout the quiz. We are having a problem with our drag-and-drop question, in that users are able to change their answers while reviewing their results. We don't want users to be able to do this, and this doesn't happen with other questions. Could you please let us know how to resolve this? I've attached the Storyfile.

3 Replies
Sam Hill

Hi JW, that looks to be behaving a little unusually. I notice, if you select Review a second time, the interactions is actually locked down and you can't change the items. It looks buggy in my opinion.

Anyway, a quick solution is to create a Layer on the interaction slide that can be shown over the top of the interaction on the slide. The layer doesn't actually need anything in it, it just needs to have the property "Prevent the user from clicking the base layer" selected. This means, when the layer is visible, the user can not click anything on the slide but they can still interact with the navigation.

You then need to set a variable which will determine when the layer will be visible. I've just called this submit. So you end up with something like "Show layer when "submit" equals True" on the drag and drop activity slide.

Then on the results slide "Set "submit" equal true when slide starts", and then you just need to make sure, when the retry buttons are selected, "submit" is set back to False.

Ren Gomez

Hi J.W. and Sam,

Thanks for bringing this issue up! As Sam mentioned, I also noticed where you were able to manipulate the responses during the first review, but then if you reviewed again, the answers were locked up.

While I dig in and confirm this buggy behavior, I have an even quicker method:

Add a layer to the quiz slide and rename it Review. This adds built-in functionality to the layer to automatically appear during quiz review. In this layer, I've added an invisible shape over the responses so the user can't interact with them, though I left the outline visible so you can see it. You can do that, or change the layer properties to Prevent user from clicking on base layer. Hope this helps!

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