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Quiz not allowing student to select answer choice in quiz
Hello folks,
I'm hoping someone has had a similar situation and been able to find a solution. I have quizzes that contain multiple choice questions. There have been reports from students that are sometimes unable to select an answer choice. The blue highlight bar that normally appears while hovering over an answer choice does not appear and when clicking on an answer choice it is not selected (i.e. the radio button does not show that it has been selected). Interestingly everything else that can be clicked in the quiz works, including the volume slider, previous and next buttons, and the question list dropdown menu.
The quizzes are delivered via an LMS and are published in QM'13 using SCORM 2004, 4th ed. I don't believe the problem to be a browser issue as I've switched browsers and the same problem occurs.
What's makes this even more difficult to solve is that it only happens intermittently. Most students are able to get through the same quizzes with no problems.
Any ideas? Would you lean towards this problem being caused by the LMS or a glitch in QM'13?
Thanks for any feedback any of you might be able to provide.
Best,
Steven
- RuthyaKrishnappCommunity Member
Hello,
My organization is also experiencing the issue above, where the radio button is not clickable, and students get stuck on that slide. Similarly, the issue is intermittent, not all students experience it. The last update I see here was four months ago. Has there since been a fix for this? Also I saw the Articulate 360 upgrade, however, we're using Quizmaker '13.
Thanks
Hi there, Ruthya. Thanks for reaching out. I need a few details to give you a hand here!
- What update of Quizmaker '13 are you using? You can go to Help > About Quizmaker.
- For the students who've reported this issue, do you know what browser they're using? You can ask them to use a site like supportally.com to get browser details, including Flash version!
- Can you share the problematic .quiz file for me to test as well?
We released a fix for a similar issue in Articulate 360, but we couldn't reliably reproduce and diagnose the original issue in Quizmaker '13 because it was so sporadic. I'm happy to try and help, though, if you can reply back. Thanks!
- RuthyaKrishnappCommunity Member
Hi Crystal,
I'm not sure how many of your folks are looking into this issue, however, I also received an email last night (see attached) and I responded to him this morning. Here's the info you need:
* The Quizmaker update version is 9: 1702.2417.
* Most students have been in Chrome, on a PC. We're starting to gather more details as they call in with the issue. That's all we have for now.I've been working all morning to convert the course to Storyline 1. Now, I finally figured out how to create variables to disable the next button until the timeline ends, and I have the menu set to 'restricted'. When I test it in my LMS, the variables I put in place work fine, however, when I click on the menu, it lets me jump ahead! What's the point of having it restricted then?! Please help! I know this is another issue, but I've got frustrated students and leaders, and need to get this fixed ASAP.
- MelissaMadden-9Community Member
So we experienced this issue intermittently for a long time in our systems. As is the case with most here, were able to replicate the issue only by logging in as the user having difficulties - trying from multiple computers and browsers, narrowed the issue down to something in Articulate. We ultimately ended up upgrading our assessments from Studio '13 to Storyline. So far, we haven't experienced this issue in Storyline at all.
That said, we DID find a temporary workaround that allowed many of our students to complete the question and move forward in the assessment.
Have your students use ALT-Tab to highlight a response choice, and then select Space or Enter to make the selection. Then, ALT-Tab to the submit button, and use Space or Enter to make that selection.
Hello Ruthya!
I didn't realize you were working with a support engineer in a support case. I'll be sure to update your case with this information and I encourage you to continue working directly with Ryan.
It looks like your email signature came through when you replied via email. You can remove that if needed and here’s a quick Peek video if you need help.
- MortenBillcl221Community Member
Hi - we have rolled out some Storyline modules in our organisation, and are receiving mulitple reports of this behaviour. My Storyline verision for publishing was uåpdated around March 2018.
Is this issue still being worked on, and are there any usable support methods other than 'select the answer and then press space bar'?
Hi Morten!
We haven't yet been able to recreate this problem on our end, so we'd love to get some more information from you.
First, what version of Storyline are you using? It sounds like you may be using an older update of Storyline 360, but to be sure, you can go to Help >> About Storyline. Let me know what version and update number you see there.
Also, have you been able to recreate this issue in another environment like SCORM Cloud?
- CurtisKynerd1Community Member
This started happening to me this week in Storyline 3. When you try to select an answer to a Multiple Choice or T/F question, there is no functionality for making a selection. It doesn't work from the learner's end in the LMS, nor does it work for me in preview mode. It functions fine in Storyline 2, but not in version 3. If I import a functioning quiz from version 2 into version 3, it doesn't work. I am increasingly experiencing issues with Storyline 3 that I have never had before. Very discouraging!!!!
Hi there, Curtis. I'm sorry you're hitting a roadblock with updating your courses. I'd like to try to help. With your permission, I'd like to take a look at your project file to investigate what's happening. You can share it publicly here, or send it to me privately by uploading it here. I'll delete it when I'm done troubleshooting.
If you can share the original Storyline 2 backup file that was created, as well as the new Storyline 3 version of the file, that would be so helpful. I wasn't able to reproduce this behavior in a simple True/False and Multiple Choice Storyline 2 course when upgrading to Storyline 3.
- TylerPerrasCommunity Member
This issue has been apparently going on for 5 years without a resolution, but I've found something that worked for me.
I've experienced similar issues with graded questions using Storyline 360. Learners would get to the multiple choice questions and they weren't able to select a response. In my case, the learners weren't even able to use the keyboard navigation (Tab/Space) to navigate and select responses.
Here is what I did to fix this issue. I 'Cut' all the slides in the quiz scene (including the question bank), created a new scene, and pasted the slides in the new scene. Then I had to go in and re-create the results slide, as the default variables associated with the original result slide (Ex. Results2.ScorePercent%) used to to track learners responses disappeared mysteriously.
I understand that the issues mentioned in this thread seem slightly different than the ones I experienced. But perhaps this might be useful to someone.
Hi Tyler,
I appreciate you sharing that here!
Although this discussion has been around for a while, it doesn't appear that there's a common cause or theme so it's not been one our team has been able to implement a fix or document. If you were able to replicate steps that prevented learners from clicking on the question slides, I'd love to know more details on that so that our team can keep testing.
- TylerPerrasCommunity Member
Hey Ashley,
Below is an example of quiz that doesn't allow the user to select any answers. It's a stripped down version of a project I was working on. The file is too large to attach because I had a lot of video inside of it initially. Even though I deleted all of the video components, the .story working file doesn't decrease in size. Which is a whole other separate challenge I've been facing.
Here is a download link of the .story file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t2cgmq25zrhzt36/Broken-MC.story?dl=0
Hi there, Tyler. Thanks for sending your file over for review!
I'm seeing the same behavior you're describing when testing the published output in Chrome, but looks like the interaction works correctly in other browsers and during Preview. So odd!
I'm going to enlist the help of our Support team for a closer look at this, as well as the file size issue. They'll reach out to you shortly with next steps, and I'll follow along!
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- TylerPerrasCommunity Member
Thanks Katie.
I'm surprised to read that you are only able to replicate the issue in Chrome. I am able to replicate the issue in Storyline preview as well as all other browsers I've tested.
I've tested Chrome, Firefox, and IE on windows and the issue persists.
I've also tested Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on Mac with the same outcome.
I haven't yet found a browser that will let me select any of the quiz answers.
I'm using the latest Articulate Storyline build (3.29.19305.0).
Thanks for also enlisting support for the size issue as well.
- TylerPerrasCommunity Member
Issue resolved (in my case).
Somehow there was a "Submit Results" trigger on a slide in a completely unrelated scene that was firing before the quiz after it started started. In my case there was a trigger inside of scene 2.3 to "Submit Results for 3.3". This marks the quiz as complete resulting in quiz slides not being selectable.
Thanks Katie for you help and the help of the Articulate team.