Articulate - multiple answers on 1 slide

My only frustration with storyline at the moment is not being able to have a question that has multiple part answers. After reading a few blog posts however I have found a work around. 

First create your slide with the objects you need then add extra buttons for the number of correct answers. On mine you can see I have three blank boxes (numeric entry objects) so I have created three 'correct' buttons to correspond to them. For ease of identification later I renamed the objects to match their corresponding buttons. The 'correct' buttons are out side the slide so they are not visible to the students.

Then convert the slide to a 'freeform pick many'

This process works by adding logic operations to the slide. These operators are added as triggers that tell articulate to select the correct button if a specific answer is entered into the numeric entry field. If the student answers an incorrect answer the button will not be selected and the slide will return and incorrect answer.


Select new trigger and your trigger wizard should look like this...

• Where 'button 1' is my 1st 'correct' button
• Object 'MEAN' is the numeric entry box associated with MEAN 
• control loses focus seems to be the term for the change of state of a text entry box - the logic escapes me but this is how I got it to work.

You then need to add conditions by opening the 'show conditions' tab at the bottom of the page.

• Add a condition by clicking the green + in the bottom right corner
• Then you can specify your variables
• 'NumericEntry 6' is the name of the box which I called MEAN 
• Then you only need to select the operator you want and the appropriate value. 

After you have added conditions to all your buttons you can edit your pick many slide in the normal way and you should get a multiple answer question on 1 slide...

Or that is the theory anyway.