Multiple Text Entry Quiz

Hi Louise,

I've been wondering about this also, and your question prompted me to do some searching. According to this Text Entry tutorial, you CAN insert more than 1 question, but only 1 will be graded.

I wonder if anyone knows how to tweak things so many entries can be graded. And, unless I missed something (entirely possible!) and it IS possible to do this w/out a tweak, perhaps this would make a good feature request.

Hi Louise and Becky,

Although the text entry question type is designed to evaluate just one text field, here's a workaround for evaluating multiple blanks on one slide: 

Hi Rebecca and Jeanette!

Thanks for your reply. (^_^)

Will see and check on the link & screenr video above and work on how to develop the multiple text entry quiz..

Thanks so much for your help!

Louise, as I said, glad you posted since it meant I pursued it. Jeanette, I was able to create this type of quiz after watching your Screenr. Thanks. A couple thoughts:

1. Is is possible to link this thread or your Screenr to the tutorial page I'd posted above (Text Entry), so others won't assume, as I did, that this isn't doable? I know, this is sort of a bossy request . Becky "managing things." Then again, I believe Articulate's goal is to help end users find answers "in the moment of need" to throw a little elearning parlance at ya!

2. I know you know this, but I discovered it by accident because things weren't working for me: the Player Triggers for Change State of Correct and Incorrect buttons needs to be above the Submit Interaction trigger in the Triggers panel. I know trigger order is very important; that's how I knew to look for that as a troubleshooting step (by default, when I put those in they went in below the Submit Interaction trigger). I just wondered if it might be something you'd want to add to the tutorial, even with a little callout, to alert Articulate users who are NOT aware of that. I also know, however, that there's only so much you can do in 5". So, just a thought.

3. Although this is very doable with your workaround, I still feel like it's something many end users would want in the product. Is it worth a feature request, or am I being to lazy? ;-)

Hey Becky! Thanks for the feedback, and I think it would make an awesome feature request to add a multi-fill-in-the-blank as one of the ready-made question types! Thanks also for the suggestions on trigger order and linking the screenr to the Text Entry tutorial - much appreciated, and the link has been added.

Done and many thanks for adding that link.

I've created a quiz using this assessment, and seem to have uncovered some sort of potential bug.

Before I list the error keep in mind that if the user hits submit right away, the program will go to the Incorrect screen (as i think it should).

The issue is happening when someone enters in the correct text entry into a field but then also adds additional letters after it

For example, the answer to one entry is   EAT ,  and the user enters in EATS or EATING  or just has the string of letters E-A-T-S in the overall string  (ie: sadfasdfasdfasdfEATasdfasdf), an error message will be thrown.

A window comes up saying : Invalid Answer.  You must complete the question before submitting.

It took me a while to realize what was causing this. Even if all entries were full, it threw this message.

I'm just wondering if anyone has encountered  this, or if there is a way to disable this  Invalid Answer screen.

Hi Chris - sorry to hear that's happening. I wasn't able to reproduce the issue; would you mind submitting a support case so that  support engineer can take a closer look at what the trouble might be? Thank you so much!

Hi Olivier, 

You may want to see if you can find some assistance for that particular scenario over in our Building Better Courses forum. 

Good luck

cheers, i had been searching it!

jm