I have. I still haven't worked out all the kinks, but I have a scenario which the learner select one of the avatars and follow the avatar through the learning process. The selection process of avatar requires that I set up branching so that each avatar has a different path.
Have not played with a pre-test. I've done courses where every chapter has a pre-test. If you pass you don't need to go through the content of that particular chapter.
A cool alternative would be to make a quiz with extensive feedback by answer. This could be multiple slides long. In the end the user would have gone through the content and gotten the exact feedback and additional information they needed every step of the way. I still hope I get to do one of those someday. I think it'll be a great course to participate in.
@Jeff: Wow that is an amazing example! Thanks for sharing. How did you get the different character and scenario choices to work in Presenter?
A quiz with detailed feedback by answer is a great idea. I hope you get to do that one day too, and that you'll share it with all of us here on E-learning Heroes! :)
@Allison: It's all just hyperlinks on the on-screen buttons. I recommend writing down the whole structure down before starting. I did it all by memory which had my mind spinning for a couple of days...
You can use any flowcharting tool. I've seen branchtrack but we can't access if from our environment. Cathy Moore has a good article on branching scenarios and I actually backwards engineered her Connect with Haji Kamal course in the old Presenter suite.
Aside from just figuring out the branching, the hard part was figuring out how to mark completion in an LMS. Instead of counting slides (impossible if different paths of varying counts) or a quiz score, completion needed to be set based on a location the learner landed. In this case, there was more than one location that was deemed "acceptable" or "good" so landing on any one of them should mark the course complete.
I opted to go with a simple Flash swf, imported to any of the acceptable slides, that did nothing but call JavaScript that in turn sent the proper code in SCORM to mark the lesson complete. When publishing, I used slide count and set it to require all slides. But of course, the learner would never touch all slides and the course was marked complete by the swf before that could happen.
Thanks Scott! That is a good point about branching scenarios and completion status.
You could still make a quiz score work if you had a final quiz that everyone took regardless of the branching path they took, but that is a good workaround.
I've also done something in Storyline where multiple "end points" in the scenario are acceptable. What I did was turn the final slide into a "quiz question" technically (Pick One), though it didn't appear that way to the learner. They got "Try Again" and "End Course" button options. When they clicked "End Course" it recorded a correct answer for that slide (quiz question). Because two end points were acceptable, I set up the quiz to be a 2 question quiz requiring 50% to pass. Then, in order to keep my LMS from reading the 50% score, I simply left the "mastery" score blank. I imagine that would depend on what LMS you had.
I'm not exactly sure if it is possible to do something similar in Presenter, but I imagine you could do something similar!
I've used the single quiz question method before in both Presenter and Storyline, but you have to design that into your flowchart. In the example "Haji" course, it would have required bringing all the "acceptable" paths back to a single landing spot that had the quiz question and choice to score completion.
Hey guys! Just wanted to let you all know that I just posted on article about how to create a simple branching scenario in Presenter in 6 easy steps! Click here to check it out. I even made a template that you can download here. I look forward to hearing what you think!
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I have. I still haven't worked out all the kinks, but I have a scenario which the learner select one of the avatars and follow the avatar through the learning process. The selection process of avatar requires that I set up branching so that each avatar has a different path.
Has anyone ever done a pre-test where the score determines the learner's path? If so, how did you set it up?
I have done massive branching in Presenter: Check out the recap from the Call center elearning challenge: https://community.articulate.com/articles/call-center-support-elearning
Have not played with a pre-test. I've done courses where every chapter has a pre-test. If you pass you don't need to go through the content of that particular chapter.
A cool alternative would be to make a quiz with extensive feedback by answer. This could be multiple slides long. In the end the user would have gone through the content and gotten the exact feedback and additional information they needed every step of the way. I still hope I get to do one of those someday. I think it'll be a great course to participate in.
In Presenter, i think that the only way is to use the hyperlinks and the Slide Properities, but it wil be more complicated cause there's no storyview.
But it is possible, I'v juste finished one :)
@Jeff: Wow that is an amazing example! Thanks for sharing. How did you get the different character and scenario choices to work in Presenter?
A quiz with detailed feedback by answer is a great idea. I hope you get to do that one day too, and that you'll share it with all of us here on E-learning Heroes! :)
@Lei: Thanks for the tip! :)
@Allison: It's all just hyperlinks on the on-screen buttons. I recommend writing down the whole structure down before starting. I did it all by memory which had my mind spinning for a couple of days...
@Jeff: Oh wow, I can imagine! Writing down the structure is definitely the way to go. Thanks!
You might consider using a tool like www.branchtrack.com to map out your scenarios and branching. This helps me, even though I work in SL. Good luck!
Connect with Haji Kamal
You can use any flowcharting tool. I've seen branchtrack but we can't access if from our environment. Cathy Moore has a good article on branching scenarios and I actually backwards engineered her Connect with Haji Kamal course in the old Presenter suite.
Aside from just figuring out the branching, the hard part was figuring out how to mark completion in an LMS. Instead of counting slides (impossible if different paths of varying counts) or a quiz score, completion needed to be set based on a location the learner landed. In this case, there was more than one location that was deemed "acceptable" or "good" so landing on any one of them should mark the course complete.
I opted to go with a simple Flash swf, imported to any of the acceptable slides, that did nothing but call JavaScript that in turn sent the proper code in SCORM to mark the lesson complete. When publishing, I used slide count and set it to require all slides. But of course, the learner would never touch all slides and the course was marked complete by the swf before that could happen.
Thanks Scott! That is a good point about branching scenarios and completion status.
You could still make a quiz score work if you had a final quiz that everyone took regardless of the branching path they took, but that is a good workaround.
:)
I've also done something in Storyline where multiple "end points" in the scenario are acceptable. What I did was turn the final slide into a "quiz question" technically (Pick One), though it didn't appear that way to the learner. They got "Try Again" and "End Course" button options. When they clicked "End Course" it recorded a correct answer for that slide (quiz question). Because two end points were acceptable, I set up the quiz to be a 2 question quiz requiring 50% to pass. Then, in order to keep my LMS from reading the 50% score, I simply left the "mastery" score blank. I imagine that would depend on what LMS you had.
I'm not exactly sure if it is possible to do something similar in Presenter, but I imagine you could do something similar!
Hi Rebekah,
Wow, that is a very creative solution to this issue. I love it! Thanks so much for sharing.
:)
I've used the single quiz question method before in both Presenter and Storyline, but you have to design that into your flowchart. In the example "Haji" course, it would have required bringing all the "acceptable" paths back to a single landing spot that had the quiz question and choice to score completion.
Hey guys! Just wanted to let you all know that I just posted on article about how to create a simple branching scenario in Presenter in 6 easy steps! Click here to check it out. I even made a template that you can download here. I look forward to hearing what you think!
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