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Is There a Way to Highlight Text?
Hello Heroes community,
I am looking for a solution to a very specific problem. I am presenting learners with an email example in a course, and want them to be able to highlight certain areas that are problematic. However, I don't want to only make the problematic text highlightable/clickable because then that gives away the answer.
Is there a feature or way I can present text and let learners highlight any/all relevant/problematic parts?
Here's another way, by using selected states. https://360.articulate.com/review/content/986836b2-da8c-4988-af4e-2950a58a413c/review
Tom, this just BLEW MY MIND!!! Thank you so much, this will work perfectly!!!!
Glad it worked.
Hey, Tom! Is there a way to make this scenario work (it might not be possible):
There's a block of text on the slide. Students are asked to highlight certain sections of the text in different colors. There are three buttons on the slide for each highlighter color: yellow, green, and blue. When the student clicks the yellow button, they are highlighting in yellow. When they click green, they are highlighting in green, and so on. I've created the highlighted shapes with selected states, as you described above, for each color. Is there a way to make each color of shapes selectable only when that color button has been selected by the student? I've attached the slide so you can see what I'm trying to get at. See the notes section to read what students are being prompted to do on the slide.
You could perhaps set up some drag and drops and allow them to place "shapes" or "pins" over the parts you want highlighted. My example I've highlighted the problem in yellow just so you can see where the pins should go.
Instructions: Drag red pin 1 to the beginning of the problem text, and drag red pin 2 to the end of problem text.Blue to 2nd problem
Green to 3rd.
I can think of some reasons this might not solve your problem, but it might help you with new ideas.See if this will get you started. I set the highlight colors to be a button set, so only one can be selected at a time.
I changed only the first three lines of the text, but if you duplicate any of those rectangles, their states and triggers will be duplicated with them.
