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Quizzing: multiple dropdown boxes per slide?
Dear community
I received the job to transpose an existing quiz from Captivate (6) to Storyline. I have several type of questions I could not transpose 1-on-1 and had to find ways around the "limitations" or rather differences of Storyline.
One type of question I simply don't arrive at a usable solution is the multiple dropdown boxes per page question type. The user has to select the correct suggestions from a couple of dropdown boxes. Within Captivate this question type is closely related to fill in the blank, just instead of a user input you can give suggestions as a dropdown box. Captivate allows virtually unlimited blanks on a slide. I cannot replicate this in any way, as Storyline only accepts 1 dropdown box per page. Please see the screenshot below to get an idea of what it looks like now and where I would like to get at.
Any suggestions...? Thanks in advance, of course.
Thank you so much for creating these videos!!
Ok, the matching drop-down approach did not work as I need several drop-down menues with different content. They may - coincidentally - have the same content, based on the question, but usually they don't.
With - again - a lot of trigger work I seem to have gotten it to work using inspiration from this forum thread: http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/20264/112881.aspx
You may have a look on how/what I did using the story file attached below. Note the check boxes, they of course will be hidden in the final quiz, are there for debugging purposes.
While this works, it is very complicated to set up, time consuming and especially prone to creator error. I can imagine messing such a slide up at some point in time at 4:55pm, 5 minutes before going home... Does anyone have any ideas how the creation process of such a slide could be improved as in simplified as well as sped up?
Thanks in advance for your participation, brainstorming and any ideas.
Hi Jon! Looks like Crystal was able to pop in and assist you here.
If you just need multiple 'wrong' answers, a word bank question type may be helpful as well perhaps.
Just an idea and hopefully others in the community will chime in to share their ideas.
Hi Joël,
Correct, this isn't currently a built-in option in Storyline. However, one option would be to use multiple questions on one slides. There are a few discussions on this topic that you may want to check out. Keep in mind they are not specific to the Drop-down quiz type, but the methods may still help you out.
Numeric Question with Multiple EntryFields
Multiple text fields on a single quiz slide [SOLUTION]
There's also a knowledge base article that may help:
Articulate Support > How to evaluate multiple fill-in-the-blanks on the same slide
Another option may be to create a free form quiz and simulate the appearance of a drop-down menu for each field you'd like to use.
I hope this helps! Good luck with the project
If you're able to set this up, I'm sure others would appreciate any tips or advice for this type of quiz setup.Thanks!
Nice job, Rebecca! Thanks for sharing
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Jokes aside, I had a certain presentiment that I'd have to do it this way. Thank you very much for the answers and suggestions nonetheless. It's just that I took the easiest slide on purpose to demo my problem. I have slides with much more complexity and this would lead to quite a time overhead for just creating those slides. I did already do a math quiz slide where users have to sum up a row of values. In the end, for this in principle simple type of slide, the trigger editing required to reach this is massive, you may see yourself:
And there's still plenty of way to scroll left in the trigger editor. You may pardon me for asking, but is there no simpler or easier way to reach the originally requested result? I just don't know Storyline enough to think of ways and tricks to get where I would like to.
Greetings
Hi Joel,
I may be missing something here but looking at the first example you provided, I have managed to replicate this in Storyline using a Matching Drop-down.
In my instance, I wanted the learner to select an appropriate type of bird feeder and match it to an image of the bird food you would put in it. When I created the interaction, I simply left the 'Choice' column blank and entered the feeder types I wanted to be included in the drop-down list in the 'Match' column. Once inserted, I re-positioned each drop-down (the 'correct' list entry is automatically displayed so you can see where it should go) under the appropriate image on my slide.
I don't know if this is of any help to you?
This is correct, the first image provided is where I'm trying to get at. The second is just as an illustration of the amounts of trigger configuring needed to get there.
I try to reconstruct what you proposed using the matching drop-down slide type. I'll get back here how far I got.
