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Storyline quiz: Ensuring people answer questions one at a time
Having the NEXT and PREVIOUS buttons always appear during a quiz can be problematic. People might accidentally click the NEXT button thinking they clicked SUBMIT, might not realise they need to click SUBMIT (even though the course included instructions to click the button), or they may skip all the way to the results page where the course then submits their unanswered questions.
If you're displaying the PREVIOUS, NEXT and SUBMIT buttons in the player and you want to ensure people only answer questions one at a time, just add these triggers on the base layer:
- Set state of Next Button to Disabled; When the timeline reaches time 0m 2s. Note: If you set this trigger at the start of the timeline, the setup won't work. And if you set the trigger to the end of the timeline, it may be too long for the user to wait if the timeline isn't short (e.g. has audio to listen through).
- Set state of Next Button to Normal; When the user clicks submit.
The above triggers disable the NEXT button until the person answers the question.
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This is an interesting approach. The Previous and Next buttons can be removed from individual slides before publishing the course though, sparing us from needing to create a trigger. Ideal UX would avoid even showing a button to someone they're not supposed to use.
I'm curious to know what goes wrong when you set the Next button to disable when the timeline starts. That functionality always works for me fine.
Hi Andrew,
I appreciate your feedback. If I disable the Next button at the beginning of timeline, then the Next button will stay disabled when I return to the slide and I then get stuck. We have the slide to resume from state so that they don't answer the question again but can review it if they want to.
