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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.
Hi Joel,
I looked at your file last night and now that I have seen what you are trying to achieve, I can now see why my suggestion of using a matching drop-down won't achieve what you are trying to do - sorry.
As you require 3 drop-down lists that contain a mixture of answers (which isn't built-in to Storyline) I will bow to Rebecca and Christine on this - it may not be a simple solution, but it does at least work.
If you do manage to find a more elegant way of building this type of interaction, it would be great if you could share it.
Hi, I am using Articulate 360 and have the same problem. I need to create a drop down interaction with several "wrong" options, so the question is not too easy for the learners.
Is this still not possible without creating a custom drop down menu?
Hi Jon! Matching Drop-down questions are designed to only have answers that match with each one of the choices. Custom drop-down menu would be the way to go here! You could use a freeform question type and build from there.
Hi folks, I'm in the same predicament as Joël... I'm using Storyline 3 and I need to embed multiple dropdown menus within one paragraph, so the learner can select the correct word from each dropdown to make the paragraph complete. Again, as Joël states, this would take mere minutes in Captivate, but I can't seem to figure out how to do this in Storyline, even with a freeform slide. Can anyone point me to a step-by-step tutorial? Anything?
Hey Brian!
This tutorial should spark some ideas: How to Create a Drop-down List Interaction.
If you're open to using another type of interaction, try creating a fill-in-the-blank instead of using dropdown menus. Simply add blank spaces in the paragraph where learners can drag and drop words from a bank. You could use a freeform drag-and-drop slide to design this interaction. Would that be an option?
Hi Alyssa, thank you for the suggestion and the link - I'll investigate :)
This information has been superb. I am operating in Storyline 3. However, the URL + question string link does now not work if I have a video (wmv or mov are the formats we are the usage of) inserted on the slide, see more detail. Any guidelines on how to get the URL + query string to paintings with a video?
This may not be the right place to ask this, but how do I change the color of the highlight for the dropdown menu options?
Hi Christian,
Good question; I'm happy to help with this! You can change the highlight color for the dropdown menu options by editing the Custom 2 color in the Storyline Theme Colors, as shown below.
You can use this article for reference:
If you require any further information, please let me know!
