Only Require Some Questions on Test Retake

Jul 31, 2012

A client group is requesting that we set our Assessments so that learners only have to retake questions that they answered incorrectly.  Can't see that this is possible in the software, but wanted to check the forum.  Anybody know how this might be done?

153 Replies
Marlena Sanchez

Hello,

I've been working on a 100 question quiz. I set all the variables and triggers set so that when the user click's on Retry Quiz only the incorrect questions are presented. Everything worked fine until I got past 20 questions or so. What happens is, when answering the incorrect questions on the retry, the results slide isn't registering that I have gotten all the questions correct. The score is always off by 10%, even though all the questions have been answered correctly. I double checked all my triggers making sure they are in the correct order. I'm just not sure if I'm missing something on the results slide...or if I just have too many question. Thoughts?

Rodney Faulkner

Hi Marlena, I'd be happy to take a look at it if you like. You can email your quiz to me rodney.faulkner@pacificaluminium.com.au

My quizzes often dont add up exactly and it always turns out that I have put the wrong variable against a trigger in my question.  Maybe you just need some fresh eyes to look at it.  Rodney

 

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Thomas,

I'm not sure I'm clear on your description - you're clicking the "retry" button off the results slide and being brought back to a question slide you've already answered and are seeing the answer already selected and then it resets to allow the user to answer? 

Could you share a sample of this .story file or a link to where we could view the course? 

Thomas Whittaker

Hi Ashley,

I'm have a working retry which only allows the user to retry incorrect answers, however, once "retry" is clicked, it briefly shows the correctly answered questions as it jumps to the incorrectly answered questions.

I have looked through the thread, and the triggers and variables I have enabled are correctly ordered, and run the same functions.

I assume this may have been something to do with timelines?

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Thanks Thomas for clarifying - I understand what you're trying to set up now. This thread is a bit older, and I know in Storyline 1 it was easier to "trick" the triggers into jumping past those correctly answered elements and so some of that change in Storyline 2.  This thread includes a bit of an updated method for Storyline 2 (it mentions review - but same concepts apply for retry). 

Based on your explanation it sounds like the users are seeing it for a brief second before advancing? I assume you've set your triggers up to execute on timeline start? It could be a delay in the loading time, and I'd be happy to test it as well and see if it's browser or connection specific as well. You may also want to evaluate the order in which you've set the triggers up - could there be some triggers that are executing prior and delaying it a bit? you may want to review the information here on how triggers are executed. 

Thomas Whittaker

Hi Ashley,

I've tried many different methods that were suggested in the thread you linked, but I stil apear to be having the same issues. These issues being that during a retry, I briefly see the correct answers before the incorrect answers, and mentioned during my previous post. However, I have also noticed that when I choose to review the questions, it skips through/past any incorrect answers.

I have attached the file, hopefully you will be able to understand what could be the cause of these problems.

Thanks 

Phil Mayor

It will show them,  this is because the slide must start before the trigger can fire, you may need to design your question slides so this does not look as obvious to the user such as animating objects in slightly after the start of the slide so the trigger can fire before the objects appear . 

For the review you will need to build in logic that does not skip the incorrect questions perhaps set a variable for review (T/F) and then add a condition that it only skips if review is equal to false.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Thomas, 

I guess it depends on when that variable is reaching the value and the when assigned to your trigger with that condition? In a general sense, I would use it when the value variable has been adjusted prior to when you're looking to use that condition as the "when" elements may be based on timeline start or something similar. 

Thomas Whittaker

I've stumbled upon a slight problem regarding the review element of the quiz. The quiz works exactly as planned, only showing incorrect questions on retry, etc; but when a user goes to review the content after their 3rd attempt, any correct answers appear blank (none of the content from the slide appears).

I'm unsure what might be causing this, but I think it might be fixable by using a trigger dependent on a variable. If anyone knows what this problem might be, and how to fix it, it's very much appreciated.

Thanks

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Thomas,

Could you share the updated copy of your .story file here for us to take a look at any other changes you've made? It sounds like you're saying that on the 3rd review of the content that everything is reset - as in the user is able to take the quiz again? There isn't a built in variable in Storyline that I could think of changing that - so I'd want to look further at your set up. You can share a file here using the "add attachment" button or send it along to our support team here. 

Thomas Whittaker

Hi Ashley,

I have fixed the query, which was caused by a trigger. The trigger was set up to pause the timeline, but the time it was told to pause was 0 seconds, which stopped the timeline from running the opening animation, and thus causing none of the content to appear.

Thanks for your help

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