Moving rollover issue in multiple choice questions (Storyline)

Hi Jeff,

I'm not sure which issue you're referring to on the forums, but it sounds like an issue I saw with a drag and drop question with the shuffle feature enabled.

Not sure why this would happen with a multiple choice question, though. Are there any differences between the answers? Font size, etc.?

Any chance you could share the .STORY file here? I'd be happy to take a peek.

Thanks!

Hi Christine,

I've finally figured out the issue. I think the problem was that instead of creating a new slide, I was duplicating a question slide and just changing the text. (I was using a certain template for the question slides, and it seemed easier to just duplicate the slide I had). Since I was just changing the text, that doesn't change the size of the text box itself.

For example, if you had an answer that was originally two lines, and the new answer is only 1, the size of the text box will stay the same. So you need to adjust the text box in each state so that it's exactly the same. And since you can't copy/paste from state to state in a question slide, you need to manually adjust each state so they're identical. Otherwise, you will get that "jumping" when either rolling over or clicking the radio button on an answer.

The moral of this story is....don't duplicate question slides....just add a new slide as normal.

Jeff

Hi Jeff,

Thanks so much for the update and the details!

While that's what I expected to hear, I'm glad that you were able to figure this out and get it working. That makes sense, now, I wasn't quite sure what would've caused that. I'll be sure to keep this in mind, in case someone else runs into the same issue.

Thanks again for sharing the solution!

Christine

Hi everyone,

I came across this thread as I had the same problem - however  I've found it's because I was copy pasting new answers into the screen view. When you copy paste into form view the roll over works fine.

To correct the questions already programmed I have had to cut the answer from screen view and then paste into an unused box in form view - by toggling between screen and form view a few times it gets rid of the spaces from where I cut the question out and it all works perfectly.

I know this is two years old but thought I'd post as  you can still use question as a template but remember to paste into form view.

Hope this helps someone as I was about to re-do all 26 test questions when I had this thought.

Linda

Thanks Linda for popping in to share :)

I had a similar issue - new to Storyline and learning the ropes. Figured out that the question slides were created with a 'foreign' text box dragged in. I created a duplicate slide and in my case selected the M/C template, populated the form, and no problems.

Thanks Bob! I appreciate you popping in to share an update.

I've also had some very annoying situations with states in multiple choice / multiple response, and still have to some extent: When I increased the size of one answer box (the box, not an individual state), some states would not change along with the resize, and/or the box in some states would resize along with the main one and become too large.

Also, resizing the answer boxes in individual states does not snap to guidelines or the width of the quiz in the slide, making exact adjustment more tedious than it should be. Finally, "Make same size" is not available from the Alignment menu :(

What I aim for is very simple: All answers should align nicely inside the quiz box, in all states. It would be VERY useful if Storyline had some ways to make this as easy as aligning slide elements.

And yes: This is related to copy/pasting existing slides. We have quite a few template elements in these slides.

Hi Henrik,

Instead of copying and pasting slides did you look at duplicating the slides and making changes based on that? As you'll see for a number of users if you utilize the copy/paste it can bring in the unwanted formatting that you're seeing and cause other issues. 

Hi Henrick, sorry to hear you're encountering these issues. Can you share a little more about what happened to the states of the objects copied to a new project?

Also, are you not seeing these options when you click the View tab > expand Show > Grids and Guides?