Storyline Interaction: Text Message with Scoring
Author: Christy Tucker
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This Storyline interaction simulates a series of text messages where you choose from three response options. Each response earns a score. The final feedback message varies based on the total number of points.
Try the example
Try out the interaction yourself. At the end, you can retry to choose different options and see if you can get a different feedback message.
Scoring
The scoring in this Storyline interaction is tracked in the variable “Feedback.” Each response is assigned either 1, 2, or 3 points (Min, Med, and Max). Each response also has a T/F variable, set to False by default.
Each time you click a response, four triggers happen.
- Add 1, 2, or 3 to the variable Feedback.
- Show the layer Feedback.
- Move the messages on the motion path Up.
- Set the variable for that choice (e.g., Q1MaxSelected) to True.
On the first question, I also have a trigger to set the Feedback variable to 0. This means it calculates correctly if you retry the activity.
Response message
I set up the text responses with states for each choice. The conditional triggers check for which response variable is true (e.g., Q2MedSelected). The response starts in the Hidden state, changing to Minimum, Medium, or Maximum to match your choice.
Final feedback message
The final feedback message has three states. Which one displays is determined by the Feedback variable (the total score).
- If Feedback is below 5 points, the “Be brave” message displays. This is the default, using the normal state.
- If Feedback is from 5 to 7, the “Not bad” message displays.
- If Feedback is 8 or more, the “Good job” message displays.
Adapting this interaction
This interaction was originally built for a client, using completely different content. In that case, we wanted to encourage participants to choose the middle ground, balancing responses between two extremes. I replaced all of the original content with text from the client feedback scenario I built as a Rise sample.
Credit for the animation
The phone layout and the motion path for sliding up the previous message was based on a text message template shared by Agnieszka Gorgon in the Articulate Heroes forum. In that example, you type your response, and it appears on the phone. Her version gave me a starting point where I could add these specific responses and scoring. Check out her template too; her animation and motion paths make this look really slick.
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