Help with Multi-Branched Quiz
Jul 21, 2015
I'm trying to create an inspector course that forces my students to choose which measurements they want to take, then give them the resulting numbers and have them decide whether the component is good or bad. Specifically, I'd like to use the "show don't tell" idea to have them go through the entire exercise before they know whether they messed something up.
That means that I need to allow the user to choose some dummy measurements and proceed as if they were valid. There are 15 possible measurements, and only 9 of them need to be taken. In the ideal world, there would be a picture of the component and all 15 possible measurements as buttons (clickable dimension arrows, maybe). When the user clicks each measurement, he/she is given the resulting dimension, then asked to choose whether that's acceptable or not. The user then returns to the original set of choices, and chooses another measurement to take. There would be a "done" button that would tally the results and tell the user whether he/she correctly inspected the tool or not (likely not telling where they went wrong: just "pass" or "try again from the beginning").
The problems: I'm using Studio (not Storyline), so I don't have the ability to put buttons into the quiz. Thus, I can't branch to different quiz questions depending on which measurement was chosen. As far as I can tell, each quiz question can only branch twice ("correct" and "incorrect"), but I need 15 possibilities.
I could do most of this in Powerpoint with hyperlinks, but then I can't track the results. (I could with macros, but when the file is published for eLearning the macros won't be active, and I don't have variables like Storyline has.)
I'm willing to change my interaction design to accommodate the tools I have, but I'd really like to allow the user to follow through with the wrong choices (i.e., just doing a "pick many" to choose the 9 out of 15 that are correct, then linearly advancing through those 9 measurements would not be ideal).
Sorry for the long question, and maybe the final answer is "dude, get Storyline," but any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
10 Replies
Hi Grant! Looks like you have gone through various scenarios and possibilities already, so I will defer to the community for their design input to assist you with this request :)
Hi Grant,
Been a while since I've dug into QM, but I believe you can still create separate quizzes and link to questions/slides in either, and still only score one of them in terms of completion. So would something like this work....?
A hot-spot interaction with your 15 measurements. 9 of those drive the student to the "scored" quiz questions, the other 6 drive them to the unscored quiz. While they are doing it it's seamless. But at the end, if they haven't answered all 9 questions I think you can set the feedback to reflect that and bounce them back.
Remove the quiz title and question list, set partial complete submission to ok, lock navigation, tweak labels on next/submit buttons, of course make both quizzes look the same.
You may have to mess with the details of the above suggestion a bit as again, long time since I played with QM. But thinking the parallel quiz concept might be an answer for you.
Good luck!
Bob,
Thanks for your reply! I think that should work in theory, but I run into a problem not having Storyline. As far as I can tell, the ability to aggregate the scores of multiple quizzes into one results slide is a Storyline feature that Presenter doesn't have. So I'm back to being able to jump around with PowerPoint or Quizmaker hyperlinks, but i don't have a good way to track the overall results.
If I'm wrong about that (tracking individual quiz results in Presenter), and I hope I am, please (please) let me know how I can do that.
Thanks again!
Hi Grant,
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not suggesting bringing results from two quizzes together. Unless things have changed, you can still have multiple "quizzes" in Studio packages but only score one of them (for completion etc).
So I'm suggesting you basically NEVER score the dummy quiz containing your 6 bogus/distractor measurements. Only score the quiz with the 9 real ones. The "trick" is driving the students to the two different quizzes seamlessly so they only appear to be one.
Example..... Hot spot #1 is a "real" measurement, so you link it to "scored" quiz Question #1. Same for measurement #2. However..... the third hot spot is a bogus measurement they don't really need to do, so you link that one to "unscored" quiz question #1.
Hope that makes sense.
Grant,
Noodled on this a bit more, and there may be two more possible options....
1) QM allows you to mix survey and scored questions together. So use a single quiz but simply set all 6 distractor measurements as survey questions, set the 9 real ones as scored questions. Can't remember if the look of both question types is identical or not, if so, this would save linking to two quizzes and still appear seamless.
2) Would a SINGLE question quiz work as follows: Use hotspot type, set the feedback by answer, give identical looking feedback (correct or incorrect) and branch back to the main hotspot question. When they believe they are done, hit submit.
Basically.... QM is the most flexible/powerful part of Studio and you can usually find a way to use it's feedback options, linking, branching, etc to create fairly sophisticated looking interactions. I have to think what you are after is possible.
Bob,
Thanks again for your help! The only problem I see with using Quizmaker is that it doesn't allow me to branch from one slide to more than two different locations ("correct" or "incorrect), which is what I would need if the student were to "inspect" in whatever order he/she wants. I need a way to go from one Quizmaker slide to one of 15 different slides, depending on what the user does.
I'm thinking I may have to do things a bit more linearly than I wanted, but this might give me a justification to buy Storyline...
Thanks,
Grant
Hi Bob! The feedback and branching in Quizmaker is a bit more limited than what you will find in Storyline, but typically enough to branch based on correct/incorrect responses. Sounds like your scenario is a bit different.
Leslie,
That tutorial actually brought up another option, and then another problem. If I do a hotspot like Bob said, I can actually apply feedback by choice to get every hotspot pointed to a different slide (sorry, Bob, if that's what you intended and I didn't get it). So I can have 15 hotspots branched to 15 different slides, which is exactly what I needed!
The problem is that it only works once. Once you follow one path and then get back to that original hotspot slide, you're not able to change your answer, so you go through the same loop over and over. Is there a way to reset the slide answers every time you get back to it?
Thanks,
Grant
Hi Grant,
That was definitely one of the options. Glad you might have a solution!
One way around the reset issue would be to actually create multiple identical hot-spot slides. Use the pass/fail feedback to branch to another (identical) version = fail, or to the course conclusion slide = pass. Couple of things with this...
1) The number of attempts would be finite; limited by the number of duplicate hotspot slides you create.
2) You wouldn't be able to "score" each quiz for purposes of recording a grade in the LMS (remember Studio only passes a single scored quiz out via SCORM). So instead you set your conclusion slide as necessary for a completion, and you can only get to it if you pass one of the hot spot quizzes. Make sense?
Hi Grant!
The branching set up is designed more for taking the user to a new question or content slide based on how they answer, but allowing multiple attempts is only good prior to the user not leaving the slide.
Retries are controlled by the Results Slide.
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