While it's not possible to define different feedback pop-ups for different attempts on a question, once the learner has used up the number of attempts you've specified, if they still get the question wrong you can branch them to additional feedback which is contained on a blank slide. See if this approach might work for what you have in mind:
Thanks for your advice. I'm thinking of a way to do what you suggest using duplicate questions so to the end user just gets different feedback popups for each attempt.
This could work if a correct response branced to a duplicate of the question with the other feedback?
Since this quiz is unscored, it wouldn't be a puzzle to configure bouncing in and out of the quiz?
OK yeah, if you don't need to score the quiz, then using duplicate questions could totally work (and you could do it all within Quizmaker, so no worries about having to branch them out of the quiz and back in again).
You would just need to create a duplicate of the question to represent the 2nd attempt. That way you can enter different text for the feedback popup on each attempt.
For the inital question, you'd want to set up the branching like this:
The correct answer takes them to question 2 (or to finish the quiz, if you don't need to ask them any more questions).
The incorrect answer takes them to the duplicate question.
Hi Joe and Jeannette - we are also considering this approach, but I found two glitches.
1) The navigation panel ends up with two versions of the question (which are numbered consecutively). So in a 6 question quiz, the Nav panel says 1 of 12. The duplicate of question 1 is actually labeled 2, and so forth. We are concerned that this will confuse our learners. To my knowledge, you cannot hide specific questions in the nav panel, although you can hide blank slides.
2) When the learner gets the first incorrect feedback, we can tell them to try again, but the button in the feedback box says "Next Question." I don't think we can customize that button on a per-question basis, only on a per-quiz basis. Again, we are concerned that this might confuse our learners.
Did you run into these issues, and, if so, did you find any workarounds?
In your situation you'd probably want to turn off the question nav panel if you are worried about the question numbers creating confusion.
And yeah, unfortunately it's not possible to rename the "Next Question" button on a per-question basis... if you change it in the text labels, that will change it for all questions. Maybe going with just the word "Next" would be sufficient?
Hey Tanya! For sure, in fact this approach works great if you don't need to do any scoring. Attached is an example. In this quiz, I modified the player a bit, to remove all scoring info and to change the "Next Question" button to simply "Next."
Thanks Jeanette. I was unable to open your link but I think I understand how to do it. Here's the error message I received when trying to open the link.
Great! It opened! I will use this technique for current project. On another note...how to you eliminate the scoring text from the screen if it's a non-scoring quiz?
Hey Tanya, if you like the quiz player template in that sample I attached for you, you can just save that to your computer, and then you can reapply it to any other quiz you build. Here's how: open the tanya.quiz file and go to Player Templates. The template that I applied to it will be highlighted, and it'll say "In Use" after it. Click the Duplicate button and then enter whatever name you want to call it. That will create a copy of the quiz player template on your hard drive. Then, when you open a different quiz, you can click Player Templates, select it from the list, and then click Apply To Project.
OR... if you would prefer to use an existing template and just remove the scoring stuff from it, this screencast should give you what you need: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204926730
11 Replies
Hi Joe,
While it's not possible to define different feedback pop-ups for different attempts on a question, once the learner has used up the number of attempts you've specified, if they still get the question wrong you can branch them to additional feedback which is contained on a blank slide. See if this approach might work for what you have in mind:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/149185523
Hi Jeanette,
Thanks for your advice. I'm thinking of a way to do what you suggest using duplicate questions so to the end user just gets different feedback popups for each attempt.
This could work if a correct response branced to a duplicate of the question with the other feedback?
Since this quiz is unscored, it wouldn't be a puzzle to configure bouncing in and out of the quiz?
Thanks again,
Joe
OK yeah, if you don't need to score the quiz, then using duplicate questions could totally work (and you could do it all within Quizmaker, so no worries about having to branch them out of the quiz and back in again).
You would just need to create a duplicate of the question to represent the 2nd attempt. That way you can enter different text for the feedback popup on each attempt.
For the inital question, you'd want to set up the branching like this:
Hi Joe and Jeannette - we are also considering this approach, but I found two glitches.
1) The navigation panel ends up with two versions of the question (which are numbered consecutively). So in a 6 question quiz, the Nav panel says 1 of 12. The duplicate of question 1 is actually labeled 2, and so forth. We are concerned that this will confuse our learners. To my knowledge, you cannot hide specific questions in the nav panel, although you can hide blank slides.
2) When the learner gets the first incorrect feedback, we can tell them to try again, but the button in the feedback box says "Next Question." I don't think we can customize that button on a per-question basis, only on a per-quiz basis. Again, we are concerned that this might confuse our learners.
Did you run into these issues, and, if so, did you find any workarounds?
Thanks! Jennifer
Hello Jennifer! You're right on both items:
Can you do this if you do want the quize to be scored?
Hey Tanya! For sure, in fact this approach works great if you don't need to do any scoring. Attached is an example. In this quiz, I modified the player a bit, to remove all scoring info and to change the "Next Question" button to simply "Next."
Thanks Jeanette. I was unable to open your link but I think I understand how to do it. Here's the error message I received when trying to open the link.
Mea culpa! Sorry bout that. I guess I should've zipped it first. See if it works to download & unzip the attached, and then open in Quizmaker.
Great! It opened! I will use this technique for current project. On another note...how to you eliminate the scoring text from the screen if it's a non-scoring quiz?
Hey Tanya, if you like the quiz player template in that sample I attached for you, you can just save that to your computer, and then you can reapply it to any other quiz you build. Here's how: open the tanya.quiz file and go to Player Templates. The template that I applied to it will be highlighted, and it'll say "In Use" after it. Click the Duplicate button and then enter whatever name you want to call it. That will create a copy of the quiz player template on your hard drive. Then, when you open a different quiz, you can click Player Templates, select it from the list, and then click Apply To Project.
OR... if you would prefer to use an existing template and just remove the scoring stuff from it, this screencast should give you what you need: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204926730
This discussion is closed. You can start a new discussion or contact Articulate Support.