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JenniferDanzo's avatar
JenniferDanzo
Community Member
12 days ago

Preventing learner from clicking multiple boxes at once.

Hello everyone!

I am working on my first e-learning course with Articulate.  I am struggling to figure out how to keep the learner from clicking on more than one box at a time (the boxes contain text-to-speech voice-overs).  Does anyone have any suggestions?  There are 3 cases where I have similar boxes in this module.

 

I would love suggestions, here is the link to Review for you to see it! Module 2

 

Thanks so much.

 

 

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Articulate 360
e-learning development
  • JesseWu's avatar
    JesseWu
    12 days ago

    How about:

    Create empty layers, only containing your voice-over on those layers.

    • Base Layer:
      • Trigger: Show Layer 1 when Box 1 is clicked.
      • Trigger: Show Layer 2 when Box 2 is clicked.
    • Layer 1 (Box 1):
      • Property: Prevent the user from clicking on the base layer.
      • Trigger: Play media when timeline starts
      • Trigger: Hide this layer when timeline ends.
  • JesseWu's avatar
    JesseWu
    Community Member
    12 days ago

    How about:

    Create empty layers, only containing your voice-over on those layers.

    • Base Layer:
      • Trigger: Show Layer 1 when Box 1 is clicked.
      • Trigger: Show Layer 2 when Box 2 is clicked.
    • Layer 1 (Box 1):
      • Property: Prevent the user from clicking on the base layer.
      • Trigger: Play media when timeline starts
      • Trigger: Hide this layer when timeline ends.
    • JenniferDanzo's avatar
      JenniferDanzo
      Community Member
      12 days ago

      I guess I am too new to have worked with Layers ... Will have to try to figure that out if you think that is the best solution.  Thank you!

      • JesseWu's avatar
        JesseWu
        Community Member
        12 days ago

        Not sure if it is the best. I don't have the software at hand to explore, so it is just the first thing comes to my mind.🙂

    • JenniferDanzo's avatar
      JenniferDanzo
      Community Member
      4 days ago

      I ended up doing it this way and it's working great, thank you!

       

  • SBP_Inc's avatar
    SBP_Inc
    Community Member
    12 days ago

    I might suggest "states" on the boxes, controlled by variables (or "if" logic in the triggers) to restrict which box is "active". The "Disabled" state is one of the standard states for objects in SL

    • JenniferDanzo's avatar
      JenniferDanzo
      Community Member
      12 days ago

      Thank you ... I do have the state of the box change to visited after it plays the voice over assigned to it.  I will have to investigate the "if" triggers to restrict which box is active.

      • JudyNollet's avatar
        JudyNollet
        Super Hero
        12 days ago

        FYI: Visited is a built-in state. Any object with a Visited state will automatically change to Visited state when it is clicked. Triggers that duplicate that built-in functionality can actually cause problems. 

  • WaltHamilton's avatar
    WaltHamilton
    Super Hero
    11 days ago

    If you are inexperienced, the layers is a less complicated solution than trying to figure out the triggers and states.

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