I need some help and direction in figuring out how to design a particular scenario or quiz. I have a course I am designing where part of the assessment is a 'Spot the Hazard' test.
My idea was to use the 'hotspots' on Quiz Maker...no problem there. The problem comes in where part of the assessment will need to have the candidates 'explain' or write what they are circling and why it is a hazard. This data will need to be passed back to the LMS (Moodle).
You could use a survey question after the hotspot , short answer or essay type question. On moodle 2.2 I believe the better scorm reporting allows you to get at these answers
Thanks for the recommendation. Let's expand this a bit.....
Let's say the I have 4 spot the hazard questions. How would you design it from here?
My first thought would be to show the hotspot picture and have them pick the hazard. The next screen would be a survey question where they explain the what and why. I would then show the next picture (or the same one where they have to pick another hazard) and have them do the same process.
Does that seem a decent route to take or do you have another idea on how to knock this out?
Hey Dave! I like the idea of using a hotspot question followed by an essay question as you mentioned. Are the learners going to view the same image for all questions? Or will they need to analyze a different image for each one? Reason I ask is, if they're working with the same image for all questions, it might be nice to follow up the exercise with an Engage Labeled Graphic, where you use the same image and place markers on the hazards, with explanations for each. Kind of a review activity, so that they can see what the "ideal" answer is on the essay questions.
The quiz will serve one random image from a pool of six.
As for the Engage labeled graphic....could you explain that a bit? (Perhaps a SCREENR?)
We will be using one image as an 'example' of what the final quiz will be, so your recommendation may prove to be useful for that.
What I am trying to do is have this part of the exam be automated. Where I am running out of ideas is how Articulate can handle the text bit of what is considered to be a correct answer. I think I am trying to force Articulate to be logical.
Hi again Dave! What I was thinking for the Engage labeled graphic was just a repeat of the same image that the learner saw in the quiz, but with callout buttons located on each hazard...something that could maybe serve as a review tool. So after finding the hazards and entering some info about each of them, they could view the same scene in the Engage interaction, but it would have buttons on each of the hazards, and they could click to see the correct info about each hazard. Does that make sense? If not, maybe if you have a sample image in mind you could attach it here and I could do a quick mockup for you. I'm not sure if it would work well if you have lots of separate images, though. I was thinking you might instead have a single image repeated on several questions slides (one for each hazard).
Regarding how to judge whether the answer is correct or not... unfortunately that's not really easily achieved with something like this, because there's not a way for Quizmaker to discern or scrutinize what the learner has written in their fill-in-the-blank question. You could certainly provide detailed feedback immediately after, such as "If your answer included the concepts of [x], [y], and [z], then you answered correctly." But as far as counting the question right or wrong, there's not really a way to do that.
Here is an example image...........thanks for dipping in on this! On this image, we are looking at things like overloaded sockets, broken chair, too much sun, poor posture, etc.
As for trying to use 'logic'.....I know that near impossible. It would be cool though, eh?
Hey Dave, here's a quick example of one way you could handle your exercise. This example goes through 3 hazards in the picture, then follows it up with a click-and-reveal review via an Engage labeled graphic. Though the free-response questions really can't be graded, the learner's responses are at least available for reporting in an LMS, and the feedback/review portions of the activity would help the learner understand why the specific items are hazardous. I'm attaching the Articulate package in case it's helpful for you to see & deconstruct the files.
Oh cool Allan, glad you can use the idea! Would love to see what you come up with - feel free to post your adaptation here or in a new thread, if you're able to share!
Thanks for the brilliant effort! That idea will work perfect for a 'pre-test'. I need to test Moodle to see how is will pass the info to the LMS. Any Moodlers have any experience with passing this type of information from Articulate?
Dave nice job.. however,, it would be real nice if they would just fix the single hot spot! this would have been much easier with mutliple hot spots on a single image.
Hi Mike! I hear you on the coolness of multiple hotspots. Have you checked out Articulate Storyline for something like that? It offers a lot of really flexible ways to build all sorts of interactions, from simple to sophisticated. You could create a multiple-hotspot exercise pretty easily in that tool.
If I understand correctly what you've got in mind, I think you could do this by making just a few changes to the quiz that we worked on together earlier. Here's how:
Add your four drag/drop and dropdown questions after each hotspot question. (And get rid of the Essay question after each hotspot, if you no longer want to use that.)
On each hotspot question, change the number of attempts to 1.
On the INCORRECT feedback of each hotspot question, set up the branching so that the learner skips to the next hotspot question if they get a wrong answer. And, on the final hotspot question, you would need to set up the branching to "Finish Quiz," since there's no subsequent hotspot question to branch to.
OK....I have run into my first road block and could use some help.
I have a total of 6 scenarios each with 4 hazards. The student needs to spot the hazards and click on them. For this, we will use the hotspot.
Here is the problem. I am going to have the system randomly choose the scenarios but I only need the students to pick 9 hazards in total. The math doesn't add up so I am trying to figure out a way to do this.
If I randomly serve 3 scenarios, this will give me a total of 12 hazards to spot.....that's too many. If I randomly serve 2 scenarios, this will give me a total of 8 hazards...that's not enough.
How can I tell the system that on the third scenario, they can only pick one hazard? This will give me the required amount of 9 hazards to serve up?
Once I figure that out, I will then need to find the best way to branch things so that based on their answer from the hotspot, it will give them a series of drop downs to pick from that describe what the hazard is, the risk, the control measure one and control measure 2.
Any thoughts on this? I can't seem to white board this properly.
Dave nice job.. however,, it would be real nice if they would just fix the single hot spot! this would have been much easier with mutliple hot spots on a single image.
Hey Mike....I now understand why you say this! I was going to use multiple hotspots but just now realised I can't. Now I am trying to figure out the best way to move forward with this as well as solve my other problems with this style of quiz.
Hey Dave, yeah, unfortunately the logic you're describing (where you serve up scenarios randomly, with customized feedback, and allow the learner to be finished once they've found 9 hazards total, from whichever scenarios they've encountered) isn't something that's available in Quizmaker, There isn't really a way to branch learners based on how many points they've scored so far. And you're correct, the hotspot question is designed to have the learner pick a single correct hotspot from an image; there isn't a way to insert multiple correct hotspots on the same slide. (This is why the sample posted earlier guides the learner through 3 different hotspot questions, each requiring them to choose a specific (single) hotspot on the image, one at a time.)
Could you perhaps adapt the earlier approach we discussed, where you guide the learner through one (specific) hotspot at a time, and then present related follow-up questions after each hotspot is found?
I think that's the way I am going to travel now. I am going to have the images re-drawn to give one hazard only....that will solve one problem. I am going to whiteboard the other concerns I have to figure out the best way to proceed from there, using the above as the mainstay for progressing.
Perhaps future versions of Quizmaker will include mulitple hotspots.
A new concern popped up with what I am trying to accomplish now.
I am going to have the first 21 questions served up from a pool of 100+.
The second part of the SAME exam will by my 'spot the hazard' questions. I have a pool of 18 in which I need to serve up 9.
Each spot the hazard questions (using the hotspot question) has 3 other questions relating to the same hotspot question.
Is there a way that I can have the system pull the three relating questions along with it when it picks the hot spot question? Is this done using groups and/or locking?
I think you could do what you have in mind by creating one large question group for your spot-the-hazard slides, and apply locks to specific slides so that they always display in a logical sequence together. Attached at the bottom of this post is a smaller-scale example. Mine contains only 4 series of slides (not 18 , but the gist of it is the same). I used a different-color background for each series so they’d be easy to differentiate. Each series consists of a quiz question, followed by two content slides which I want to display in sequence right after the corresponding question slide.
OK so in that sample file, let’s say I only want to display TWO of the four series, at random, each time a learner takes my quiz. To make that happen, I applied locks to the first two questions in each series. You can do that by right-clicking the slide and then choose Lock Question > To Question Below. This ensures that each 3-slide series always displays together, in sequence. Also, for the randomization, I chose Randomize Group on the toolbar, and for the number of slides I chose 6, because I wanted to display 2 series, each of which contains 3 slides (2 series x 3 slides = 6 slides).
So when you preview this, you should see that Quizmaker displays two series, in order, at random each time.
Does that replicate the behavior you have in mind?
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Hi Dave
You could use a survey question after the hotspot , short answer or essay type question. On moodle 2.2 I believe the better scorm reporting allows you to get at these answers
Hey Phil,
Thanks for the recommendation. Let's expand this a bit.....
Let's say the I have 4 spot the hazard questions. How would you design it from here?
My first thought would be to show the hotspot picture and have them pick the hazard. The next screen would be a survey question where they explain the what and why. I would then show the next picture (or the same one where they have to pick another hazard) and have them do the same process.
Does that seem a decent route to take or do you have another idea on how to knock this out?
Thanks for the idea....this may just work!
Cheers,
Dave
Dave that sounds fine, the other thing I thought of would be to use a survey essay question only
Add an image with a grid over it, a bit like spot the ball. Then ask them to state using the grid where the hazard is and why.
You would have to mark this correct manually. But, you are going to be reading the essay question anyway.
That's an interesting way to do it as well......
I will have to toy with this.
Anybody else have any ideas?
Cheers,
Dave
I am going to drag this post back up as I am near enough to start this part of the project.
Thanks for the input on this Phil. Should you or anybody else have any ideas, I am all ears!
Cheers,
Dave
Hey Dave! I like the idea of using a hotspot question followed by an essay question as you mentioned. Are the learners going to view the same image for all questions? Or will they need to analyze a different image for each one? Reason I ask is, if they're working with the same image for all questions, it might be nice to follow up the exercise with an Engage Labeled Graphic, where you use the same image and place markers on the hazards, with explanations for each. Kind of a review activity, so that they can see what the "ideal" answer is on the essay questions.
Hello Jeanette,
The quiz will serve one random image from a pool of six.
As for the Engage labeled graphic....could you explain that a bit? (Perhaps a SCREENR?)
We will be using one image as an 'example' of what the final quiz will be, so your recommendation may prove to be useful for that.
What I am trying to do is have this part of the exam be automated. Where I am running out of ideas is how Articulate can handle the text bit of what is considered to be a correct answer. I think I am trying to force Articulate to be logical.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for coming in!
Dave
Hi again Dave! What I was thinking for the Engage labeled graphic was just a repeat of the same image that the learner saw in the quiz, but with callout buttons located on each hazard...something that could maybe serve as a review tool. So after finding the hazards and entering some info about each of them, they could view the same scene in the Engage interaction, but it would have buttons on each of the hazards, and they could click to see the correct info about each hazard. Does that make sense? If not, maybe if you have a sample image in mind you could attach it here and I could do a quick mockup for you. I'm not sure if it would work well if you have lots of separate images, though. I was thinking you might instead have a single image repeated on several questions slides (one for each hazard).
Regarding how to judge whether the answer is correct or not... unfortunately that's not really easily achieved with something like this, because there's not a way for Quizmaker to discern or scrutinize what the learner has written in their fill-in-the-blank question. You could certainly provide detailed feedback immediately after, such as "If your answer included the concepts of [x], [y], and [z], then you answered correctly." But as far as counting the question right or wrong, there's not really a way to do that.
Here is an example image...........thanks for dipping in on this! On this image, we are looking at things like overloaded sockets, broken chair, too much sun, poor posture, etc.
As for trying to use 'logic'.....I know that near impossible. It would be cool though, eh?
Cool image Dave! I'm headed into a meeting and will be out the rest of the day but will whip up an idea tomorrow morning for ya.
Hey Dave, here's a quick example of one way you could handle your exercise. This example goes through 3 hazards in the picture, then follows it up with a click-and-reveal review via an Engage labeled graphic. Though the free-response questions really can't be graded, the learner's responses are at least available for reporting in an LMS, and the feedback/review portions of the activity would help the learner understand why the specific items are hazardous. I'm attaching the Articulate package in case it's helpful for you to see & deconstruct the files.
Published output
Source files (Articulate package)
I really like this style of quiz! I may modify it for our own purposes at our workplace. (Healthcare setting)
Oh cool Allan, glad you can use the idea!
Would love to see what you come up with - feel free to post your adaptation here or in a new thread, if you're able to share!
Hello Jeanette,
Thanks for the brilliant effort! That idea will work perfect for a 'pre-test'. I need to test Moodle to see how is will pass the info to the LMS. Any Moodlers have any experience with passing this type of information from Articulate?
Many thanks Jeanette.
-Dave
Dave nice job.. however,, it would be real nice if they would just fix the single hot spot! this would have been much easier with mutliple hot spots on a single image.
Hi Mike! I hear you on the coolness of multiple hotspots. Have you checked out Articulate Storyline for something like that? It offers a lot of really flexible ways to build all sorts of interactions, from simple to sophisticated. You could create a multiple-hotspot exercise pretty easily in that tool.
OK...so another question in continuing to find out how I can enhance this quiz.
Here is a modificiation of what I am trying to accomplish -
A) User picks a hazard by hotspot and clicks submit.
B) If the answer is correct, they are asked a series of four questions where the answers are drop and drop or drop downs.
C) If wrong, they are presented with the same hot spot image and asked to pick another hazard.
D) They only have 4 chances at picking a hazard
Is something like this possible to do?
Thanks for any help!
Dave
Hiya Dave!
If I understand correctly what you've got in mind, I think you could do this by making just a few changes to the quiz that we worked on together earlier. Here's how:
Does that make sense?
Hey Jeanette,
Let me process that and give it a whack. I watched your SCREENR about using the branching and feedback.
I will come back to this thread with an update in teh beginning of the week.
Cheers,
Dave
OK....I have run into my first road block and could use some help.
I have a total of 6 scenarios each with 4 hazards. The student needs to spot the hazards and click on them. For this, we will use the hotspot.
Here is the problem. I am going to have the system randomly choose the scenarios but I only need the students to pick 9 hazards in total. The math doesn't add up so I am trying to figure out a way to do this.
If I randomly serve 3 scenarios, this will give me a total of 12 hazards to spot.....that's too many. If I randomly serve 2 scenarios, this will give me a total of 8 hazards...that's not enough.
How can I tell the system that on the third scenario, they can only pick one hazard? This will give me the required amount of 9 hazards to serve up?
Once I figure that out, I will then need to find the best way to branch things so that based on their answer from the hotspot, it will give them a series of drop downs to pick from that describe what the hazard is, the risk, the control measure one and control measure 2.
Any thoughts on this? I can't seem to white board this properly.
Cheers,
Dave
Hey Mike....I now understand why you say this! I was going to use multiple hotspots but just now realised I can't. Now I am trying to figure out the best way to move forward with this as well as solve my other problems with this style of quiz.
-Dave
Hey Dave, yeah, unfortunately the logic you're describing (where you serve up scenarios randomly, with customized feedback, and allow the learner to be finished once they've found 9 hazards total, from whichever scenarios they've encountered) isn't something that's available in Quizmaker, There isn't really a way to branch learners based on how many points they've scored so far. And you're correct, the hotspot question is designed to have the learner pick a single correct hotspot from an image; there isn't a way to insert multiple correct hotspots on the same slide. (This is why the sample posted earlier guides the learner through 3 different hotspot questions, each requiring them to choose a specific (single) hotspot on the image, one at a time.)
Could you perhaps adapt the earlier approach we discussed, where you guide the learner through one (specific) hotspot at a time, and then present related follow-up questions after each hotspot is found?
I think that's the way I am going to travel now. I am going to have the images re-drawn to give one hazard only....that will solve one problem. I am going to whiteboard the other concerns I have to figure out the best way to proceed from there, using the above as the mainstay for progressing.
Perhaps future versions of Quizmaker will include mulitple hotspots.
Thanks for the help! I may be back
Cheers,
Dave
Hello again,
A new concern popped up with what I am trying to accomplish now.
I am going to have the first 21 questions served up from a pool of 100+.
The second part of the SAME exam will by my 'spot the hazard' questions. I have a pool of 18 in which I need to serve up 9.
Each spot the hazard questions (using the hotspot question) has 3 other questions relating to the same hotspot question.
Is there a way that I can have the system pull the three relating questions along with it when it picks the hot spot question? Is this done using groups and/or locking?
I hope that makes sense....
Cheers,
Dave
Hey Dave,
I think you could do what you have in mind by creating one large question group for your spot-the-hazard slides, and apply locks to specific slides so that they always display in a logical sequence together. Attached at the bottom of this post is a smaller-scale example. Mine contains only 4 series of slides (not 18
, but the gist of it is the same). I used a different-color background for each series so they’d be easy to differentiate. Each series consists of a quiz question, followed by two content slides which I want to display in sequence right after the corresponding question slide.
OK so in that sample file, let’s say I only want to display TWO of the four series, at random, each time a learner takes my quiz. To make that happen, I applied locks to the first two questions in each series. You can do that by right-clicking the slide and then choose Lock Question > To Question Below. This ensures that each 3-slide series always displays together, in sequence. Also, for the randomization, I chose Randomize Group on the toolbar, and for the number of slides I chose 6, because I wanted to display 2 series, each of which contains 3 slides (2 series x 3 slides = 6 slides).
So when you preview this, you should see that Quizmaker displays two series, in order, at random each time.
Does that replicate the behavior you have in mind?
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