Pick many won't allow user to pick many

Jun 13, 2022

I'm trying to build a custom look Pick Many question and I can't get it to allow the learner to select multiple answers. I've tried using both Check Boxes and Radio Buttons and neither is allowing me to select multiple answers. I've attached a file with the two Pick Many question so you can see how they're set up.

Here's the question in Review https://360.articulate.com/review/content/b455fb3d-108e-4a3e-a6a5-95011ffaa4c8/review 

Any advice would be appreciated. For reference, all the Pick One questions are using radio buttons so for consistency of appearance I'd like to continue using these.

7 Replies
Walt Hamilton

If you are serious about consistency, you need to use checkboxes. Almost every computer program written in the last 50 years uses radio buttons to indicate that only one option can be selected at one time, and checkboxes to indicate that several options can be selected at a time.

So when you create a bunch of radio buttons, SL automatically puts them in a Button set, which means that only one of them can be selected at a time. Choose checkboxes, and that doesn't happen.

I would strongly advise you not to use groups. Groups don't play nicely with anybody, and especially not with triggers and states. Ungroup the groups, choose one item to be the base item, select and copy all the others. Edit the state, and paste all the others onto the Normal state. Now you have one object, and it can have states and triggers applied to it.