Lengthy Scenarios

Jul 22, 2021

I have a challenge that I hope someone can help with. I need to put together multiple choice and multiple select questions using a Theme palette of colors and font sizes.  I need the questions to be all on one slide though the learner could be lead to other slides. I'd prefer not too many complications.

The questions will have LONG scenarios that the learner must read. Then there's a question. Then the potential responses.

My problem is one of screen real estate as much as anything else. 

Here's a silly example. I'm not being business specific here so you could give me suggestions as you like.

Here's a "fictional" silly scenario. Notice its pretty darned long. That's the point. Mine are a bit shorter but not by much.

SCENARIO

Once upon a time, there were three little pigs who lived with their mother in a

meadow. One day the mother pig said to the three little pigs, "You need to go out
into the world and make your own way." So they waved "goodbye" and out into
the world they went.
The pigs decided to build houses near the woods. A big bad wolf lived in the
woods. He was not happy when he saw the three little pigs building houses nearby.
The first little pig was lazy. He made a house of straw. The big bad wolf huffed
and puffed and blew it down.
The second little pig worked a little harder than the first little pig. He made a
house of twigs. The big bad wolf huffed and puffed and blew the house down.
The third little pig made a house of bricks. The big bad wolf huffed and puffed
and huffed and puffed. But the house did not fall down. This made the big bad
wolf very, very angry. He went up on the roof and tried to get into the house
through the chimney. He climbed into the chimney and slid down into a pot of
boiling water. He ran out of the house and never came back!

Multiple Select question: who was / were the "bad actor(s)", the "bad guy(s)" in this scenario? 

(responses)

A. The big bad wolf

B. The three little pigs for building so close to his home

C. The lazy pig who designed a house of straw

D. The brick building pig who should have known that the wolf would huff and puff and blow the house down.

Correct: A, B, C, D

Feedback: All of the answers are right. The wolf was a bad actor but so were the pigs for being lazy and for not reasonably predicting the house would be burned down by a huffy, puffy wolf.

2 Replies
Maria Costa-Stienstra

Hi, Kevin, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! ✨

I'm looking forward to what our talented community members will suggest for you! One way I can think of is by using layers:

  • On your multiple-choice question, move the objects on the timeline to start at 1/4 of a second.

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  • Add a trigger to Show layer 1 when the timeline starts. You should have all your "Story" layers set to Pause timeline of the base layer.

Windows 10 (1) 2021-07-22 at 11.43.54 AM

  • On each layer, except for the last one (in my example I called them 1, 2, 3, etc.), add a trigger to Show the next layer when the timeline ends.

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  • On the last layer, add a trigger to Hide this layer.

The idea is when the slide starts, the user will automatically see the layers telling the story until the last one disappears and they see the question. 

I am attaching an example .story file with your fictional plot.

Screen Recording 2021-07-22 at 11.49.28 AM

Let me know if this helps!

Phil Mayor

I would look at presenting the scenario on the slide and then have the question take up the whole slide, you could have a button for the scenario as a refresher if the user wants to see it again. Also I would have additional questions on separate slides (the user doesn't need to know they are separate slides) as it which be much easier to edit and maintain. Very similar to what Maria suggests.