# Simulation - working with buttons/hotspots **URL:** \ **Category:** General Help\ **Created:** [August 30, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/simulation-working-with-buttons-hotspots/1862 "2022-08-30T12:53:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tim\_Ash](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/tim_ash/32/1007_2.png) [@Tim\_Ash](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/Tim_Ash)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/simulation-working-with-buttons-hotspots/1862/1 "2022-08-30T12:53:44Z")
Hi all. I am new to Evolve and trying to build a pretty simple simulation. However, I’m used to Storyline, and I’m finding Evolve pretty complex by comparison. I would like to ask how I go about setting up the following… I have a screen, and I’ve added a button element around an on-screen command. Obviously, if the learner clicks that button/command, they are “correct”. So far so good. However, I want to set it up so that a click _anywhere else_ on screen, _except_ the button/hotspot, equates to an “incorrect” answer. Is this possible? And if so, how? Do I need to create a second hotspot that covers the entire screen, and somehow layer that behind the correct button? Or is this to do with variables? Hope someone can take a pity on me and help! Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Cook\_Evolve\_LQA](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/sam_cook_evolve_lqa/32/902_2.png) [@Sam\_Cook\_Evolve\_LQA](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/Sam_Cook_Evolve_LQA)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/simulation-working-with-buttons-hotspots/1862/2 "2022-08-30T13:08:18Z")
Hi Tim, what you can do is create a second button that’s set as a hotspot (eg invisible) and covers the whole screen. Just make sure your correct item sits on top of it (you can drag and rearrange the hierarchy of the elements by clicking the elements button on the screen tool bar, as per the screenshot) ![Screenshot 2022-08-30 at 14.06.54](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/evolveauthoring/original/2X/4/429550df04149a45e819fedd620f03e8f445623d.png) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_Ash](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/tim_ash/32/1007_2.png) [@Tim\_Ash](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/Tim_Ash)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/simulation-working-with-buttons-hotspots/1862/3 "2022-08-30T14:07:37Z")
Thank you Sam, that’s very helpful. Do you, or anyone else, know of a good tutorial video that covers Simulations in detail? I am playing around with it but really struggling to get anywhere to be honest. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Cook\_Evolve\_LQA](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/sam_cook_evolve_lqa/32/902_2.png) [@Sam\_Cook\_Evolve\_LQA](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/Sam_Cook_Evolve_LQA)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/simulation-working-with-buttons-hotspots/1862/4 "2022-08-30T14:57:32Z")
there’s this resource (linked to in the component) which provides a good overview (a little way down the page): [Advanced Features : Intellum](https://experience.intellum.com/student/path/763989-advanced-features) also if you select Create Course \> Create Course from Template you will see there’s a template called Simulation you can open. I think seeing how things are set up in an Existing simulation helps ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_Ash](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.evolveauthoring.com/tim_ash/32/1007_2.png) [@Tim\_Ash](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/u/Tim_Ash)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://community.evolveauthoring.com/t/simulation-working-with-buttons-hotspots/1862/5 "2022-08-31T09:18:03Z")
Thanks Sam. I did already have that article on [Advanced Features](https://experience.intellum.com/student/path/763989-advanced-features) but I’ve found it very complicated and I got stuck working through how variables/conditions/triggers work. So I was hoping someone may have recorded a video tutorial that goes through it and demonstrates how they work. In the meantime I’ll do as you suggest and load a template, to see if I can figure out how it works in the back end. Thanks again for the advice.