E-Learning Heroes - Advice and ideas from the Articulate Community

Thanks for this tutorial. Ok, so I've redirected the learner to see the remediation slide via branching. Now that the learner has had seen the remediation slide, I'd like the learner to have another attempt at the question, but the question is now 'locked'.

Hi Martin! That's right, Quizmaker won't let you send learners "back" to retry questions. What you can do is duplicate the previous question and show it to those learners who missed the previous question.

I put a quick Screenr together for you on how that would work: http://www.screenr.com/7OP

Hi David,

That does partially solve the problem but then creates a new one: after adding the duplicated question, the score for the first (incorrect) attempt is recorded and the score for the second, duplicated question, which is then correctly answered on the second attempt is also stored, giving an average quiz score of 50%.

I think I'm trying to get quizmaker to do stuff that it was not designed for.

The problem is that once you show my client a better solution than what he has already got, he then wants it with all the flexibility in the world :)

I had to laugh after reading your last comment regarding clients seeing something and then wanting more--that's something we see all the time!

You're correct about the points and percentages. You have a couple things going on that might make scoring--percentages, point values--unnecessary.

Because you want learners to retry missed questions and receive point values after successfully answering questions, could you modify the results slide to remove any mention of percentages and simply include "Pass" screen? You don't need to use Quizmaker's default Results slide at that point--every learner will ultimately Pass. You could customize a blank slide with a summary or conclusion indicating the learner successfully passed the quiz. Just an idea.

Another option might be to create a "practice" quiz that isn't scored and offer it up in a hidden slide. Give learners the choice of taking the practice--unscored--quiz before moving on to the graded quiz.

I really like your suggestion about offering the practice quiz (unscored) and then the graded quiz. I'm also thinking I can use the LMS settings to allow learners to repeat the whole quiz if they don't achieve the 100% score.

This training is for legislated requirements, and they have to get 100%, not 'just' pass.

Many thanks, appreciate all your comments.