Evolve Hack:
Remove MCQ Feedback Buttons

In this article, I’ll describe a particular issue I often needed to solve in Evolve Authoring and provide code that you can copy and paste to solve it too.

To apply the code, you’ll need to refer to my article Applying Your Hacks, and for full context of why hacks are necessary, you can refer to Hacking Evolve Authoring.

While building Evolve Authoring courses, I often didn’t like the way the feedback button would always be there, disabled at first and then functional even after you’ve seen the feedback upon submitting. All of this adds to the complexity of the page that the users have to navigate – meaning they’re spending less time on the content, and more clock cycles figuring out which buttons to press.

So I created the below hack to simplify the courses in some instances. But only if feedback wasn’t required or if seeing the feedback once was good enough. Though I think I also used it sometimes simply because having it in my hack file was quicker than messing around in Evolve.

Add an MCQ or GMCQ component

Pretty simple really, apply the hack below and the feedback buttons will disappear.

Add this styling code according to my articles Hacking Evolve Authoring and Applying Your Hacks.

/* Remove MCQ Feedback Button */
/* Updated: 04/08/2020 */
.ev-buttons-feedback {
     display: none;
}

That’s it!

While that worked for me, that doesn’t mean it will still work for you. Evolve updates often, so always be sure to test the code before you use it and any time you export. Evolve may have even improved this feature such that it’s no longer necessary by the time you read this article.

However, if you’re trying to apply it and it doesn’t work, let me know if you modify the code to work and I’ll update this article.

Thanks…

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