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True False questions. tracking and scoring
HI,
So after about 2.5 hours with Google Gemini my team buddy building my true false question slide, while setting up tracking the answers, I've got myself totally lost and Gemini keeps telling me if some value is true do such and such and I said 10 times triggers don't start with if, so we went in circles :-(
Let's see if I didn't get myself too lost here.
I have 5 true/false questions on a slide. 5 button sets for each true false buttons.
Following Gemini I now have 4 triggers per button not 2 and still not clear if I need an even 5th trigger per button.
This got me thinking maybe I'm way overbuilding this here.
All I want are true/false questions. track if the learner got the answer correct or not and score it.
My ever growing trigger list currently for the first true button is:
Set S01_hospitality_TF_InnitalAnswers to value true when the user clicks button true 1
set S01_hospitality_TF_Q01 to value true when the user clicks button true 1
set state of button true 1 - "True" to true when user clicks button true 1
set S01_hospitality_TF_AllAnswered to value true when the user clicks outside the rectangles. rectangles are all the buttons. (using this in place of a submit button)
So I have these same triggers for every 5 True buttons.
Same thing for False just set to false.
This give me an initial value for the initial answer, the true/false value and when the user leaves focus set each value to it's correct true or false answer. I think.
At least that's what I think I have now but no longer following Gemin's syntax
Am I building this correctly?
4 triggers per button with multiple variables for only 5 questions?
This seems overkill for what I'm trying to do.
What do you suggest?
Try and finish figuring this out (I've been doing this 2.5 hours and need a break) or start over?
I think I've seen every one of your videos and didn't come across this.
What would you suggest?
Maybe there's a how-to True/False video somewhere
Thanks
JA
The attached file shows a simpler way to score a set of T/F answers.
Notes:
- I simplified the True/False buttons, so they only have 3 states: Normal, Hover, and Selected. Selected is a built-in state, so no triggers are needed to change the state of the buttons in each set when the user makes their selection.
- I also redesigned them, so the Normal state is pale, and the Selected state is dark with a glow effect. I just think that makes it more obvious which is selected.
- I added ovals named done-q1, done-q2, etc. They're off the slide, so the user will never seem them. But they're handy for tracking whether the associated question has been answered. Each has a Normal state and a Done state. The True and False buttons for a given question each have a trigger to change the corresponding oval to its Done state.
- I added a Submit button, so the user can indicate when they're ready to have their answers scored.
- The Initial state of the Submit button is Disabled.
- A trigger changes the Submit button to Normal when all of the "done-q#" ovals are in the Done state. This ensures the user answers all of the questions before they submit their answers.
- The Submit button shows the appropriate feedback layer based on the user's answers.
- If all of the correct buttons are in the Selected state, the program shows the "Feedback-correct" layer.
- The "Else" in the trigger shows the "Feedback-incorrect" layer if the user answered any question incorrectly.
- It's up to you to provide the appropriate feedback on the layers. For the incorrect layer, there are different ways to indicate which answers are correct. The simplest would be to list the correct answers intext and/or add graphics that indicate the correct items.
FYI:
- This post is about tracking responses to custom questions/surveys, so it might give you some other ideas: TIP: Track Responses to Custom Questions or Surveys - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
- Here's the User Guide info about trigger conditions: https://community.articulate.com/series/articulate-storyline-360/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-work-with-triggers#conditions
- I simplified the True/False buttons, so they only have 3 states: Normal, Hover, and Selected. Selected is a built-in state, so no triggers are needed to change the state of the buttons in each set when the user makes their selection.
You're my hero Judy Nollet :)
I read through your response and like your redesign.
Recovering from 9 days of lost work due to .story file corruption so will take a look at this later in the week and reply if I have any questions.
Many Thanks
JA
