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GertTroch-67025
Community Member
25 days ago

Player Navigation Buttons unavailable when reviewing quiz

Hello

I have a quiz where all slides are dependent on the player navigation buttons to unclutter the slides as much as possible.

To prevent the user from skipping questions, the Player Next button is hidden when the timeline starts. Its status is changed to "Normal" on the feedback layer when submitting the answer. This makes for a clean navigation with only a Submit button and a Next button.

At the end of the quiz, if the learner chooses to review answers, the player shows the first slide but no Next button. Whatever I do, it seems impossible to have the Next button displayed when reviewing the answers. I have tried with a variable making the status of the Next button dependent on whether the learner is reviewing, does not work. I have played with all the properties for advancing/revisiting the slide, does not work.

Any ideas? I could add navigational buttons on the slides but really this should just work with the player's buttons.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Gert

 

 

 

 

 

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  • JudyNollet's avatar
    JudyNollet
    Super Hero
    25 days ago

    Here's how the default, built-in quizzing functionality works:

    • When the user takes (or retakes) the quiz, the program automatically hides the Next and Prev buttons.
    • If immediate feedback is provided, the Continue buttons on the feedback layers hide the layers and then jump to the next slide.
    • If there's no immediate feedback, the Submit button jumps to the next slide. 
    • If the user reviews the quiz, the program automatically shows the Next and Prev buttons (even though they aren't selected in Slide Properties).

     

    As you've discovered, when you select the Next button in the Slide Properties of a question slide, that allows you to control it with triggers. 

    Without seeing your .story file, it's hard to say why your trigger to show the Next button during a review isn't working. It might have the wrong "when." It might be in the wrong location. (Triggers run in order.) It might be some other issue. 

    Here are the best practices for uploading a .story file: 

    • Only include slides that are related to the problem.
    • Be sure objects, layers, motion paths, and variables have meaningful names.
    • If there is proprietary content, replace or delete it. For example, replace proprietary text with “ipsum lorem” text.
    • GertTroch-67025's avatar
      GertTroch-67025
      Community Member
      23 days ago

      Hi Judy

      Thank you for your anxwer. You state "When the user takes (or retakes) the quiz, the program automatically hides the Next and Prev buttons." It seems it does not. I just removed my trigger to set the state of the "Next button" to hidden when the timeline starts and now it shows both "Submit" (="Indienen") and " Next" (="Volgende")  in the player. Only when I also disable the Previous and Next button on the slide properties of the base layer "Submit" becomes the only available option.

      I was however able to to work around this by adding a condition to the trigger that changes the status of the Next button to hidden - the issue lay with the sequence of assigning a value to the the parameter that keeps track of whether the learner is reviewing or not. You need to assign that parameter before you call the Review function, not after. :-)

      Kind regards

      Gert

       

  • JudyNollet's avatar
    JudyNollet
    Super Hero
    23 days ago

    GertTroch-67025​ : I'm sorry my previous reply wasn't clear. I should have said this at the beginning: when using the default functionality, the default setting has the Prev and Next buttons deselected in the Slide Properties.

    • Those buttons don't show when taking (or retaking) the quiz. That's why I said they were hidden.
    • Those buttons do show when reviewing the quiz, even though they aren't selected in Slide Properties.

     

    Any time you want to control a question slide's Prev and Next buttons with triggers, they have to be selected in the Slide Properties. Then you need triggers to show and hide them when needed.