Hi, I've been reading through the community to find a way to resize Matching Drag and Drop boxes, as Jeanette demonstrated for Quizmaker slides.
I have a slide with boxes that are all the same size, but the fonts are all wacky sizes because some boxes have more content than others - and I'd like to size the boxes to be big enough to fit the largest content - and the fonts to be the same across the board.
Reading different sized fonts on the same slide (and across the entire CBT course) is very hard on eyes. I'd like to make it easier on the poor learners.
Can't find information to resize boxes (and ergo fonts). Can it be done? How?
If you click on the boxes you should be able to set the font size, it is not possible to change the size beyond dragging out the handles. The best way is to rebuild this in the freeform drag and drop question types.
Looks like Phil was able to pop in and assist you here Nicolas and you are welcome to share your thoughts on improvements with our team here if you'd like.
One way of not having to recreate this quiz with freeform is to make the first column fixed and drawing boxes over them and entering your text in them. That way you can create the one with the longest line of text first, then make the others the same font size. * i just realized this answer is 2 years later but hopefully it is of use to anyone trying to solve this problem now *
I am having the same issue, has Articulate corrected the issue? I have gone into every box and resized but the adjusting of the fonts still happens... was hoping to not have to do free form as time does not a lot. Appreciate the help!
Form-based graded questions make designing quizzes quick and easy, but there aren't a lot of customization options. If you want to customize the size of the matching drag and drop objects, a freeform slide is the way to go!
Wow. A long-running thread! - Same problem, though - because I have 10 options, it goes off the page - and I'm not going to use a drop-down box. really, it should be as simple as resizing the boxes.. OK, building a freeform it is then!
This drag and drop matching template is pretty useless unless you have the same amount of text for each section. If you turn off auto sizing of the text and then resize shape, it makes the right side boxes bigger than the left size... really unstable. Not sure why you just can't adjust the height of the boxes and have it apply to both left and right sides.
Came here for an answer and realized that this still is not addressed over 2 years now. Thanks to contributors for their assistance, we should pay them!
Hello Veronique and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊
Thank you for reaching out and sharing that you would like to see this feature as well. This conversation is attached to a feature request shared with our team.
The matching drag and drop shapes and text are set automatically to keep it consistent across answers. Have you considered using a freeform drag & drop interaction? It'll allow for more flexibility in the design!
When I drag and drop an orange icon to the blue one, it's possible that the orange is above an other orange.
In the drag and drop "template" when there is one that covers another, the other one will be automatically replaced.
Hope you understand me?
Kind regards,
Veronique Hofman
ArcelorMittal Gent Talent management | Training
Training - post 22 (Ocas gebouw)
President John Fitzgerald Kennedylaan 3, B-9060 Zelzate
I'm having similar issues, but maybe worse? One of my three options expanded on it's own and I can't figure out how to expand the rest... The answer on the right of the last one is expanding and collapsing randomly. I'd also like to change the color, but that doesn't seem to be an option either.
Thank you for providing a screenshot! I'd like our team to take a look at the .story file so we can suggest workarounds. Would you mind uploading it privately to our team in a support case? We'll let you know as soon as we receive it.
Did you open a support case with our team via the link that Lauren shared above? You can edit your reply above by logging in to that account. It looks like you have two different profiles, which is probably why you do not see the option to edit.
I'm not clear on which email you'd prefer to use, so I've not opened a support case on your behalf.
Hello Janis and Hallie! So glad to hear Peter's reply was helpful!
If any other questions come up, please be sure to reach out to our amazing community in ELH or reach out to us directly and share your files in a support case.
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If you click on the boxes you should be able to set the font size, it is not possible to change the size beyond dragging out the handles. The best way is to rebuild this in the freeform drag and drop question types.
This is a really good thing to improve in the future :)
Looks like Phil was able to pop in and assist you here Nicolas and you are welcome to share your thoughts on improvements with our team here if you'd like.
One way of not having to recreate this quiz with freeform is to make the first column fixed and drawing boxes over them and entering your text in them. That way you can create the one with the longest line of text first, then make the others the same font size. * i just realized this answer is 2 years later but hopefully it is of use to anyone trying to solve this problem now *
No worries Colette! It could certainly help someone that runs across this thread in the future.
Welcome to E-Learning Heroes by the way!
Hi there,
I am having the same issue, has Articulate corrected the issue? I have gone into every box and resized but the adjusting of the fonts still happens... was hoping to not have to do free form as time does not a lot. Appreciate the help!
Hi Sandra!
Form-based graded questions make designing quizzes quick and easy, but there aren't a lot of customization options. If you want to customize the size of the matching drag and drop objects, a freeform slide is the way to go!
Wow. A long-running thread! - Same problem, though - because I have 10 options, it goes off the page - and I'm not going to use a drop-down box. really, it should be as simple as resizing the boxes.. OK, building a freeform it is then!
This drag and drop matching template is pretty useless unless you have the same amount of text for each section. If you turn off auto sizing of the text and then resize shape, it makes the right side boxes bigger than the left size... really unstable. Not sure why you just can't adjust the height of the boxes and have it apply to both left and right sides.
Came here for an answer and realized that this still is not addressed over 2 years now. Thanks to contributors for their assistance, we should pay them!
Hi, I was looking for this as well. If you could change this, it would be really helpful! Changing the size of the drop items. Thanks!
Hello Veronique and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊
Thank you for reaching out and sharing that you would like to see this feature as well. This conversation is attached to a feature request shared with our team.
The matching drag and drop shapes and text are set automatically to keep it consistent across answers. Have you considered using a freeform drag & drop interaction? It'll allow for more flexibility in the design!
Hello Leslie,
Indeed I made a freeform drag and drop, but it there was one thing I couldn't fix and that is the case with the normal drag and drop :
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When I drag and drop an orange icon to the blue one, it's possible that the orange is above an other orange.
In the drag and drop "template" when there is one that covers another, the other one will be automatically replaced.
Hope you understand me?
Kind regards,
Veronique Hofman
ArcelorMittal Gent Talent management | Training
Training - post 22 (Ocas gebouw)
President John Fitzgerald Kennedylaan 3, B-9060 Zelzate
VLOT BEREIKBAAR VIA TEAMS
T +32 9 347 4116
veronique.hofman@arcelormittal.com
www.arcelormittal.com/gent
I'm having similar issues, but maybe worse? One of my three options expanded on it's own and I can't figure out how to expand the rest... The answer on the right of the last one is expanding and collapsing randomly. I'd also like to change the color, but that doesn't seem to be an option either.
Hello Veronique!
It doesn't look like the image was attached to your reply. Would you mind attaching the image to this discussion instead?
Hi Christa!
Thank you for providing a screenshot! I'd like our team to take a look at the .story file so we can suggest workarounds. Would you mind uploading it privately to our team in a support case? We'll let you know as soon as we receive it.
Hi Lauren, the image was send in a mail. Now I have add it here. (is it possible you remove my signature in the post here above please? )
Hello Veronique,
Did you open a support case with our team via the link that Lauren shared above? You can edit your reply above by logging in to that account. It looks like you have two different profiles, which is probably why you do not see the option to edit.
I'm not clear on which email you'd prefer to use, so I've not opened a support case on your behalf.
Maybe my version might work better for some? (at least it's a different look).
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/6b1252e8-f992-4327-9feb-0f26e0abbb87/review
Source included in review comments.
Height and width can be changed to fit text, but be mindful of the puzzle parts fitting each other nicely.
Many thanks Peter! Appreciate your sharing. You just saved me a lot of time:)
Peter, thank you so much for sharing your "matching" format. I agree with Hallie: "You just saved me a lot of time!"
Hello Janis and Hallie! So glad to hear Peter's reply was helpful!
If any other questions come up, please be sure to reach out to our amazing community in ELH or reach out to us directly and share your files in a support case.
Happy Developing! 🥳