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Help Needed with Partial Drop/Drag Scoring
Your subject line refers to "partial scoring," but nothing in your description mentions anything besides correct/success and incorrect/failure. If it's either pass or fail, it'd be easiest to just use Storyline's built-in functionality for scoring. Just have the standard "Submit [interaction]" trigger run when the user clicks your custom Submit button.
If you do want different scores based on the number of correct items, you still need to use some of Storyline's built-in functionality to have the score passed to the LMS. To do that, you can have the drag-and-drop answers trigger the answers to a hidden multiple-choice question. (Multiple-choice questions let you assign point values to each response.)
This project explains what I mean. It's about partial credit for a multiple-response question, but the principles are the same.
For troubleshooting your "CorrectAnswers" variable, I suggest you add temporary text boxes to the slides that reference the variable's value. That will let you see whether the variable changes as expected, which will help narrow down what's going wrong.
- A variable only changes when a trigger changes it. It won't change just from going to another slide.
- Triggers run in order. If there is a "jump to slide/scene" trigger, other triggers need to come before that trigger. (A trigger can't run if the program has already left the slide the trigger is on).
Beyond that, it's impossible to troubleshoot without seeing the programming. Someone might be able to solve the issue if you upload the .story file. Here are the best practices for doing that:
- Only include slides that are related to the problem.
- Be sure objects, layers, motion paths, and variables have meaningful names.
- If there is proprietary content, replace or delete it. For example, replace proprietary text with “ipsum lorem” text.
For future reference, this Exchange Best Practices section is for general questions about eLearning. You’re asking how to do something in the software. That type of question is a better fit in the Discuss Articulate Products section of the website. That's where those of us who regularly answer questions about how to use the software spend more of our time. And that's where more folks go to search for answers specifically related to Storyline, Rise, and other parts of Articulate 360.