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Drag and Drop RESET option
Is there anyway to add a RESET option when creating a Drag and Drop activity. I love using the Freeform options when creating quizzes but it would be nice to have a RESET button on Drag and Drop questions when students don't get the correct answers and to make it easy for them to Try Again.
Is a Reset option something they can add to a future update under the Drag and Drop options?
- AliciaRosenq551Community Member
You are a hero Nancy! I was trying to do this and could not for the life of me figure out why it was not working. Moving the triggers was the fix! I appreciate it!
- CraigLindemanCommunity Member
I am having a similar issue, and have come up with a workaround for free form drag and drop (within a question bank), but have not been able to reset to original state using a question bank. Is there a way to single out (jump to) a particular quiz question slide within a question bank to essentially get the question to reset to its original state? I will post the scenario momentarily in case some may find the first work around useful.
- CraigLindemanCommunity Member
Here is the .story file (built in Storyline2). Please let me know if it did not come through right, as this is my first posting and I am a bit of a noob with it. Please forgive the stripped down version, but it seems to work fine... Question 2 is where I want the word to go back to the bank after clicking try again... I hope Question 1 might help others too (make sure to check Allow only one item in each drop target from the Drag&Drop options for it to work). I might just rebuild the word banks to drag and drop. if I cant get word bank to behave...
- AnnamaeTrypus-4Community Member
I was able to use your help in my project. Thank you so much!
Glad this thread was able to help you out as well Annamae :)
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- GerryMcAteer-86Community Member
Here is another way to return dragged objects to the original starting point for multiple retry attempts without having to use a variable:
1. place an add motion animation onto each drag object.
2. set the start and end points to the same point (when the drag object is in its original spot)
3. set duration to 00.10
4. on the Try Again layer - and on the Try Again button set a new trigger for each of the drag objects. (Move 'object' on LineMotionPath1 when the user clicks Try Again button
and that's all you need to do! :)
cheers Gerry
- LaToyaWillia168Community Member
Hi Gerry, I know this is an older post but thanks for this tip! It worked so well for me!
- GerryMcAteer-86Community Member
Thanks LaToya sorry for the late reply :)
- KimberlyLococo-Community Member
Thanks so much Gerry! I wish I had seen this long ago! This just fixed all of the issues I was having with resetting the dragged items!
- GerryMcAteer-86Community Member
No worries Kimberly only to glad to share this tips and tricks with others in this forum, it is such a helpful community!
cheers Gerry :)
- MarkSiegrist-c0Community Member
Thanks Gerry! I think your solution is the best/cleanest.
- GerryMcAteer-86Community Member
Glad you found it useful Mark! thanks for your kind feedback. cheers Gerry
Thanks, Gerry - love to see the additional ideas and examples.
So glad this was able to help you out as well LaToya! Thanks for chiming in to share :)
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- BrentThomas-e82Community Member
Amazing. Thanks Gerry. So simple.
- GerryMcAteer-86Community Member
Cheers Brent glade you were able to use it :)
- KimberlyLococo-Community Member
I just ran into another question on this post I started 3 yrs ago. Is there a way to TURN OFF the Reset function if students want to return to this slide for review purposes? Since the slide properties are set to Reset to Initial State, they can't come back to this slide to see what they answered. I like to allow students the option click the Previous buttons to review the content but this slide comes up with the question in it's original state and only the Submit button is available. They have NO way to review what they answered on this slide or review any slides prior to this one.
I tried creating a new True/False variable attached to the Continue button on the Correct/Incorrect layers and then added triggers to turn off the Submit button and make the Previous/Next buttons visible once they activate the variable. However, the Reset slide property must erase any variable adjustments because I still can only return to this slide in it's original state with the Submit button. Very frustrating! Thanks!