Multiple Text Entry Quiz

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

This is a great tutorial, thank you!  However I'm struggling with how to have more than one attempt during the interaction.  For example, say the user taking this quiz got all but one of the fill in the blanks correct.  It would be great to give them another chance to correct their mistake and have them submit the interaction again.  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

Hi Kate and Welcome to E-Learning Heroes! 

Is this what you are looking for:

Step 6: Choose the number of attempts (graded questions only)

By default, Storyline gives learners one attempt at your question. But if they answer incorrectly, you can give them the opportunity to retry. Use the Attempts selector to choose the number of attempts, or set it to Unlimited if you want learners to keep trying the question till they get it right. (The Attempts selector doesn’t appear on unscored questions, since those don’t have a right or wrong answer.)

This is within our tutorial found here.

Hope this helps and have a great day!

Thanks, Leslie.  This was close to what I was looking for!  I ended up using a variable to control the number of allowed attempts since I used Convert to Freeform for the many questions on my quiz.  I set the default value of the variable to 4 and then if the answer was not correct, I deducted 1 from the variable each time the user clicked continue on the try again feedback layer.  When the variable ran down to 0, I triggered the incorrect layer to appear and then the user is forced to move on to the next question. 

After posting this reply, I kept digging within E-Learning and found this as a viable solution. 

Thanks again for your reply!

Kate