Reset quiz questions to initial state ?

Jun 23, 2014

I am making a module in Articulate Studio 2013, where I have certain slides with certain Quizz. At the very end of the module, there is a final quiz that determines if the user passes or fails. If he fails, the user redoes all the module all over by being redirected to the very start of the module (using branching). When the user fails, I want ALL the quizzes to reset to their initial states, but it doesn't seem to do that. The user can go through the already answered quizzes but cannot change the answers or redo it, because the quizzes are not resetted to their initial state. I chose the option "Never Resume" and it still doesn't work.

Is there a solution to this problem?

Thank you

-David

10 Replies
Christine Hendrickson

Hi David,

Do you use Storyline by any chance? :) The states and options for Studio products are a bit different and it's not possible to set it up the same way and use an option to "Reset to initial state". 

In either case, when retrying a quiz, you should see the slide the same way it displayed at the beginning. 

It sounds like you're seeing the review of the quiz, or there's an issue with the attempts settings. 

Are you able to share an Articulate Package if you have your quizzes inserted in a Presenter '13 project, or a .quiz file here, so I can see what's happening?

Thanks!

Christine Hendrickson

Hi David,

Yeah, 95.5MB is a bit too much for the forums :) The max is 20MB at the moment.

Thank you for sharing the project, though!

Reading back over your initial post and taking a look at your project, I do see what you're referring to now. From what I understand, you want each separate quiz to reset if the user fails the quiz. This wouldn't be possible - at least not with the way you have the quizzes set up. 

For example, the quiz in slide 14 is set to unlimited attempts - meaning the user tries and tries until they get each answer correct. There's also no results slide for this quiz, so there's no option to retry the quiz. This means that the quiz won't be reset. 

The best option is something similar to what you stated earlier, but it doesn't function quite the way you're implying. The "Never Resume" option is for when a learner revisits the course. That means when they refresh the page, or if they close it and return to it. 

What I would do, personally, is change the option for failing so that the user is taken to the URL for the course, instead of slide 4. This would start them back at the very beginning and should function similar to a refresh of the page. If you're using the "Never Resume" option, the learner won't see the prompt and the entire course should reset. 

I hope this makes sense! If you try this out on your end, and you have any trouble or questions, please let me know.

Thanks!

David Pilon

Hello Christine,

Thank you for your response.

I am using an LMS, so I won't think that changing the option for "failing" would be a good idea, as I think there will be a certain conflict in the LMS.

Plus, all the quizzes are at "Never Resume". So if I were to complete one quiz and hit submit and I would go back to that quiz using the "Previous" button, the quiz would still not reset to its initial state in Articulate Studio 2013.

What would you suggest?

Thank You

-David

Christine Hendrickson

Hi David,

The presentation itself provides the option to resume or not to resume - if you were able to change the destination to the URL of the course itself, it shouldn't have any impact on the LMS.

You'd want to change the resume behavior of the Presenter presentation, rather than the Quiz settings. In the quizzes, the only option you need to have enabled is the "Retry" option. 

The "Never Resume" prompt is related to how the entire project loads when a user reloads or revisits the presentation. 

Currently, your presenter project has "Prompt to resume" enabled for the course. I've changed this, just for the sake of sharing an example, and modified just the quiz in slide 70 (the final quiz) to launch the URL for the course. 

Here's a link to the published and uploaded modified version:

Example for David

What you'll see is that when you complete (you can jump to it with the menu I enabled if you'd like) the final quiz and fail, you're taken right back to the beginning and everything is reset. Again, I think this is the best option. Another option would be to tie all of those quizzes together into one quiz, but I know that this isn't what you're wanting to do. 

Again, the modifications I made are just for example purposes so you can see the functionality I'm describing and how it should work when hosted by an LMS. 

Thanks!

Christine

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