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Storyline quiz: How to send learners back to review content screen on incorrect answer?
Here's a way to get what you want without variables.
1. Set the question's Attempts field to Unlimited.
- When you do that, Storyline automatically creates a Try Again layer. And it will show that layer whenever the user answers incorrectly.
- For more info, see https://community.articulate.com/discussions/discuss/primer-graded-questions-the-allow-multiple-attempts/1222130 )
2. On the Try Again layer, add a Review Content button. Have that button cover the default Try Again button. Add these triggers for when the Review Content button is clicked:
- Change the state of the Review Content button to Hidden.
- Hide this layer (that is, the Try Again layer).
- Lightbox the associated content slide.
FYI: Lightboxing opens a slide in a modal window that prevents the user from interacting with other elements. By default, it does not include the Prev or Next buttons, so the learner can't move to other slides.
3. On the content slide, add a Retry Question button. Its trigger should close the lightbox.
4. Also on the content slide, add a trigger that changes the state of the Retry Question button to Hidden when the timeline starts. Give it a condition that checks if the Window is "inside the player frame." Add an Else statement that changes the button to Normal. The trigger would look like this:
By the way, I think it's worth the effort to learn about variables. They provide the real power in Storyline. See https://community.articulate.com/discussions/discuss/the-value-of-variables/864419
Thanks, Judy, for the very thorough answer. It appears Lightboxing is the tech I was missing here. I'll give this plan a try when I get to this point in my build and come back if I have questions.
Hi Judy -- I tried this on a previous course, following your instructions. The lightboxing worked fine. But when I come back to the question screen, I can't get the answer choices to reset. My previous choice is always still showing. Here's what I tried:
- Change state of all four photos (they act as buttons) to Normal when user clicks Try Again.
- Change state of all four photos to Normal when user clicks Review Content.
- Change layer properties of the Try Again layer to "Reset to initial state" when revisiting.
None of these worked, so I must be missing something. I've tried searching but can't find an obvious answer. Do you have a solution? Thanks.
The Slide Layer Properties for the Try Again layer don't impact what's on the base.
Triggers to change the state of the responses to Normal should work. I have no idea why yours don't. You might want to submit the file to the support staff: https://access.articulate.com/support/contact
Hi Judy -- I need to follow up on this question with you. I'm building my course for my client, and I've reached the point of question screens. I have two issues with this programming:
1. I still can't get the radio buttons to reset to Normal when I come back to the screen to retry the question. I've set the base layer properties to "When revisiting: Reset to initial state" and I've added triggers to the Try Again layer resetting the buttons to Normal when Review Content is clicked. Neither worked.
2. If I return, then answer incorrectly a second time, the Review Content button no longer appears, only the Try Again button, which does nothing.
I seem to be missing something (probably simple) on both these issues, but I don't know what it is. Any help you could offer would be appreciated. Thanks.