Reset interaction work around

I have found a workaround, but hoping there is a more elegant way to achieve this...

I have a drag and drop exercise with 2 attempts. It has an introduction/instruction message and animations that I don't want repeated when they do "try again".

My workaround is to make it one attempt and then if they get it wrong, the try again button causes a jump to a duplicate slide with the same interaction but no introduction or animations (so it looks just like it reset).

Then, if they get it wrong again or correct, it just jumps to the next slide with the appropriate correct/incorrect feedback.

Do any of you see any flaws in doing it this way? Is there a more elegant way to reset an interaction?

Thank you all!

Victoria

6 Replies

Joanne Chen
Hero

5 days ago01/13/21 at 7:04 am (UTC)

Hi Victoria,

Are you using graded question or freeform question? If you use either of them, the introduction/instruction message and animations won't repeat when you clicking try again.

Victoria Sublette
Author

5 days ago01/13/21 at 11:18 pm (UTC)

Yes. You're right, it doesn't do the animations! Hurray! However, it doesn't reset. Meaning it doesn't put back the dropped items to start over.

Any idea on how to do that nicely?

2 days ago01/16/21 at 7:54 am (UTC)

Hi Victoria,

I think it is not bad for learners to see what their first time choice before doing the second try. However, if you really want the slide to be reset, you can do a little trick by adding variables and triggers below.

Add a numeric variable, e.g. q1attempt, with initial value to zero.
On base layer Trigger: Add 1 to variable q1attempt when user clicks submit BTN.
On Try Again layer Trigger: Jump to the same question slide When the user clicks Try Again BTN on the condition of q1attamp is Less than 2.
On Try Again layer Trigger: Show layer Incorrect When the timeline starts on the condition of q1attamp is equal to 2.
Set slide property to "Reset to initial state" when revisiting.

Victoria Sublette
Author

13 hours ago01/17/21 at 11:21 pm (UTC)

I agree. It's not bad for them to see their choices, but then how do they know to manually put everything back to start over? I wish there was a reset variable!

Thanks so much for your help! I'm going to try that now!

13 hours ago01/17/21 at 11:44 pm (UTC)

Well, it kind of works, but not really. Setting it to Reset to initial state makes the animations appear again even if I use a variable to suppress it.

I have attached it so you can see.

activity.story

5 hours ago01/18/21 at 7:57 am (UTC)

Hi Victoria,

I found another way of doing this without have to use a duplicate slide or using variables. This is the line, my comment is down at the bottom of page 1 link hope this is useful for you :)

cheers Gerry