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sam_amara
sam_amara
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April 19, 2023
Question

Drag and Drop Slide Not Resetting

  • April 19, 2023
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Hello all!

 

I have seen posts in here about Drag & Drop slides not resetting but I haven't seen an issue similar to mine so I'm hoping someone out there may have a suggestion. I have been trying to create remediation with a D&D slide and followed along with a great video by Paul Wilson that does exactly what I want. However, when Paul tests his project, makes the user 'error', does the remediation and returns to the D&D slide, (at 12:42 in the video), his interaction is reset. My test project works perfectly until that point. I test the project, make the user 'error' until I force the remediation button and do the review, but when I return to the D&D slide the interaction is still completed. Further, the project just continues on and goes to the next slide. 

 

I'm fairly sure I followed the steps as Paul does in the video - it's not a complicated process - but then again I'm also sure I'm missing something silly, as otherwise it should work. 

 

Here is my D&D slide with the timeline: 

Here is the D&D panel: 

And the simple advanced interaction - as done by Paul - to hide the custom messages for continue and return to content for review on enter for the D&D slide: 

If anyone has any ideas of why my interaction isn't getting reset, I'd appreciate hearing them. The two things that came to mind for me was that I'd forgotten to check 'reset all' or that I'd forgotten to uncheck 'continue playing the project' but I didn't. The timing and pause are default (as they are in Paul's video), so I'm a bit at a loss. 

 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions out there!

 

samamara

 

PS: I don't know if this will help at all but here is my advanced interaction panel for this small tester project. Anything before slide 5 is not relevant to this issue. The D&D is on slide 9 and the remediation begins on slide 5. 

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    sam_amara
    sam_amaraAuthor
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    April 20, 2023

    Actually, after I posted this I got some suggested links I hadn't seen before and thanks to @Lilybiri and @RodWard in this older post, I learned there that D&D slides that are set to 'Include in Quiz' can't be reset. I unchecked that box and now it works great! The video by Paul Wilson was exactly what I needed. If only there were a way to make the final error message not show when the 'click to review' button pops up, but it seems there isn't and I can live with that. 

     

    samamara

    sam_amara
    sam_amaraAuthor
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    April 20, 2023

    Oops, I forgot to link the original post I got the answer from. I wish I could edit my posts when I forget things 😉!

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    April 20, 2023

    Thanks @Lilybiri - this is very interesting. Indeed in your blog post you point out the issue that I'd like to get around, namely in the section 4.2 under Drag & Drop Confusions ("the Failure message will always pop up with every Failure attempt"). I would rather learners not see that last failure message when they are being offered a chance to go back and review. 

     

    Replacing the text in a failure message with a variable seems interesting and straightforward. However, your post seems to talk specifically about using a different feedback message for each wrong drag source; is it possible to use this method for creating different feedback messages for each failed attempt? For example, if I had three attempts on the D&D action, could I use this method to have the first and second say "sorry, try again" and have the third say "click to review" and then blend that with my current solution (where a review button pops up on the last attempt so users can go back into the lesson)?

     

    Thanks!


    It should be possible to use that idea, that is the reason why I posted the link.

    Problem with the global 'failure' of a D&D slide which registers after clicking the submit button is that it only is an 'event' at the Last Attempt. Hence you cannot trigger any action which is needed.

    I have an older blog which is closer to your situation, but the published output was still a SWF and I don't have the courage to update that project. I am tired of providing free tutorials on an 8year old laptop or a 13 year old desktop.

    https://blog.lilybiri.com/custom-failure-messages-slash-attempts-drag-and-drop

    This one is not using the variable approach but custom feedback messages closer to your idea.

     

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