2nd try = Less Points

Feb 10, 2015

Hello there!!

I'm need some assistance. I have an exercise (question type hotspot and some texts) and the student can do 2 attempts on each.

If he clicks or writes right on the first try, give him 100 score but if he gets right only on 2 try, gives him 75 points. This is the problem. I saw on points screen the option to change when he's correct and when he's wrong, but can't put any point on try again.

I saw some discussions here, but I got more confused, actually.

 

Thnks!

14 Replies
Christophe Jacobs

Hi,

By default Storyline will not be able to do what you want.

1) The try again option (# attempt) really is just a new try for your user. It is a chance to try the question again without receiving a penalty for the first incorrect answer. If you would set your attempts to unlimited, this would mean your user can try again and again until eventually they get the correct answer.

2) The points you give in the form view (or when you edit the question slide, depending on the version of Storyline) are a way to give weight to a question (or an answer in the question for some questions) in the overall quiz. 

So an option you could explore is directing the user to a copy of the question when they get an incorrect answer (and if they get a correct answer, they never reach this question). This way you can give 100 points for a correct answer on the original question and 75 points on the correct answer of the copied questions.

Directing the user is done by using the branching options in the feedback.

Greetings,

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Guilherme,

I just wanted to pop in here to clarify that Storyline doesn't have a partial scoring feature, or a way to provide scoring based on how many attempts - so you'll need to implement a custom method as Christophe suggested here. I also wanted to caution you in regards to the "copy" option, as each of those questions would still need to be tracked by your results slide - leading to a lot of extra possible points and may cause issues with your overall scoring. 

Greg Cannon

interestingly I've got an example of where quiz questions are set to be attempted twice i.e. have a try again. I went through the quiz, got 2 questions wrong on purpose at the first attempt but correct on the second attempt - I expected my score percentage to be 100% but in fact it came out at 89.47%, with one incorrect attempt it comes in at 94.73% - so roughly 5% less per try again question. Below are the settings and these are the same across other questions in other test mode scenes - it is just in this one scene where trying again reduces the score.

If anyone has got any ideas as to how/why this might be happening I'd be delighted to hear them - it's been driving me potty!

Greg

Quiz Question Settings

Wendy Farmer

Hi Jessica

I've just tested this in SL2 and it's not reducing the points on a second attempt.  See attached sample - each question has 2 attempts and I've added the results.scorepoints reference to the slide so you can see it is giving the full points each time.

Which version of SL are you using where this is happening?

Jessica Feltman

Hi Wendy, 

I'm using Storyline 360. Here is the breakdown. 

I start the scene with a quiz that has 2 attempts. 

There are 3 slides within it full of learning. 

Then a final test slide followed by a result slide. 

I pass the first question right away that starts the scene. 

I purposely fail the test question after the 3 slides so I get the try again slide and then pass it. 

The results slide is tracking both quiz slides. I obtain a 50% and fail this portion of the course with a passing score of 80%. 

Any thoughts? 

--Jes

Wendy Farmer

Hi Jes

you're right. 

The results2.scorepoints = 10 when I retry the first quiz question and move to the second quiz question but it is resetting that 10 points to 0 when you click to Try Again on the DnD.  I would log a support ticket with Articulate and get them to take a look - include this forum post link so they can see what was discussed.

Good luck.

 

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