Ideas on how best to use a "Scrabble" tile mechanic
Apr 17, 2018
So, I have a slide with a picture of an empty Scrabble rack, with 8 blank slots (dotted rectangle shapes converted to hotspots).
There are 8 letters jumbled up on the slide, and what I'm aiming for is that the learner will figure out the correct order to drag the letter tiles and slot them onto the rack to spell out a specific word.
Each time they place a letter, I want reading content to appear.
The challenge is that I want to make sure that the content will only appear in the correct order, so the learner will need to place the letters correctly from left to right. For example, I don't want them randomly placing letter 4 and getting shown paragraph 4 out of sequence.
I'm new to Storyline so maybe I'm biting off more than I can chew here, but i've been having great fun the last few days figuring out interesting interactions.
Is there a way of doing this with layers and triggers on the one slide? Or would I maybe need to have 8 separate slides with each correctly placed tile leading onto a new slide? So there would effectively only be one active hotspot per slide?
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This sounds like a Drag-and-Drop interaction to me. When a drag object is dropped on the correct drop target, then text (maybe in a layer or scrolling panel) is displayed. This seems pretty straightforward until you have words that have multiple occurrences of the same letter ('community' has two letters 'm' and either m could be dropped into the correct position. Having multiple correct targets for a drop object requires more triggers.
Also, this may not be exactly what you are looking for, but there was an eLearning challenge about word games a while back.
Hi Michael, thanks for the replies. Yeah I definitely need to play around with drag-and-drop, but there are some complications, as you mention. The word does indeed have repeated letters. Also, i need a way to ensure that the content related to each letter is only displayed in the correct order as the word is spelled out. Since the content "chunks" form a sequential whole, its important they're displayed not only for the correct letter, but also in the correct order. With an 8 letter word i need to build it so that only the first letter can be placed first, followed by the second and so on, so the learners can't randomly place letter 6 ahead of letter 3 and get the content displayed out of order.
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