Stop music/audio on Quiz Results review
Jun 19, 2013
By
Gerard K
Hi,
I'm using a clock sound during a series of questions in a Storyline quiz with a results slide. Upon completing the quiz, i'd like to be able to have them review the answers (from the Results slide) without the clock sound playing again on the quiz screens. I've successfully used a variable to not play media the second time around before with the "when media completes" condition. That case involved a voice over giving directions.
However, since this case involves a sound track (clock sound) and variable length of time that a student stays on each screen/question (depending on how fast they answer), I can't use the "when media completes" action. Any thoughts on how to approach this?
thanks a lot.
Gerard
14 Replies
Hi Gerard and welcome to Heroes!
I haven't tried this myself, but you could create a new True/False variable (called 'Quiz Review') and set the default value to False. Then add a trigger to the [Review Quiz] button that adjusts the 'Quiz Review' variable to True when the user clicks on it. Finally, add a condition to the existing slide triggers that play the media only if 'Quiz Review' equals FALSE. For example:
TRIGGER WIZARD
Action: Play media
Media: Ticking clock
When: Timeline starts
Object: [SLIDE NAME]
TRIGGER CONDITION
If: Quiz Review
Operator: ==Equal to
Type: Value
Value: False
Would that work for you?
Hi Antony,
Thanks a lot for your reply. Sorry for the late return as I've had this on the backburner for a bit. I've tried your suggested approach along with a number of other tactics but just couldn't get it to do what I needed it to. Having a trigger on one slide affect another appears to be impossible. I ended up creating my own quiz review slides which didn't have the music/clock playing.
Thanks again for the response.
Gerard
Hi Gerard! I wanted to welcome you to E-Learning Heroes as well. Still your first post, so 'technically' I guess I'm not super late
Just let us know if you need anything further while you are working on your project.
Thanks for the update and have a great day!
Hi Gerard! Antony's method should work if you set the "When revisiting" properties for your quiz slide to "Reset to initial state" I've attached a simple example.
As Leslie mentioned, let us know if you need anything else.
Hi,
I have a similar problem and have managed to solve it half-way. In Storyline I have a quiz with recorded narration and a result slide with score points and two buttons: Review the result and Take the test again. My issue is that the recorded narration should only play the first time the user take the quiz. The second time (whether it is due to review result or take the test again) it should not play. When I set the properties on each slide to initial state it works fine if you click on Take the test again. But the problem occurs when clicking the Review the result since the properties need to be saved state otherwise the user can't see what he/she had answered.
Is there any way I can solve this?
Hi Maria,
Try this:
Create a T/F variable and give it a meaningful name, e.g., Review. Set the default to false.
On the Results slide, add a trigger that sets the Review variable = True when the use clicks. Be sure it is the top variable for that button.
On the Question slide, insert a trigger to stop the media when the timeline starts on condition that the Review variable = True
I had thought you'd also have to add a trigger to play the media if the Review variable is false, but at least my testing it wasn't necessary.
Please shout out with any questions.
Hi Rebecca,
Thank you so much for your quick and descriptive answer. Meanwhile I also found this help: http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline/audio-or-video-plays-when-reviewing-question-slides
...which explains the same thing so as far as I can see it works just fine now thanks to you and this forum.
Best regards,
Maria
Hi Maria,
Well, glad to know that my suggestion is the same one that Articulate supplies. Pretty scary to be thinking in "Articulate speak!"
Glad it's working.
And what's wrong with "Articulate speak"?
Glad you got the help you needed here Maria, and just let us know if you need anything else!
I may be missing something here, but setting the review layer to pause the base layer should prevent the audio playing and when you retry this layer would not be visible
Hi, may i know if we can stop the audio in Quizmaker 360, result slide?
Hi Sherlyn
Can't you just remove the audio file from the timeline if you don't want it to play
I would want the audio to be played as a background throughout the quiz, but not in the result slide. is that possible?
Hi Sherlyn!
Yes, that's possible! As Wendy said, you could delete the audio from the results slide. Or you could silence the audio on the results slide. This is how you would silence the audio:
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