Assessment remediation

Mar 24, 2021

Can anyone help me with building/setting up end of course assessment remediation? I have 30 questions which I need to link to the course slides (a Learning objective for each slide and question). On the learner getting a question wrong,  on the results screen after completing the assessment, I want to add a button so it will take the learner back to that specific slide linked to the question they got wrong so they view this again and on completion of this slide, they do the complete assessment again (all 30 questions). Is this possible?

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Murray Duguid

I hope someone can help me as this is for a live project. I havent had any suggestions as yet.
I have attached what I am referring to above.
If the learner gets a question wrong, it is "stored" and when they get to the results screen for that section, based on the questions they have got incorrect, they will be taken back to review the relevant slides (remediation button).
When they have finished viewing the relevant slides based on the questions they got wrong, they will then have to retake the complete (all) section questions again. This will cycle until they have achieved the pass mark.
I hope someone can help with this. Thanks

Judy Nollet

Hi, Murray,

I think what you want is possible. I also thinks it's impracticable. To do that strictly with Storyline functionality, you'd need variables to track which questions were answered wrong. Plus, all the content slides would need a "jump to" trigger for each possible slide that could be next. In other words, on the first slide, there'd be a trigger to jump to the first slide the first time the user goes through the course. Plus a trigger to go to second slide with the condition that the corresponding question was answered incorrectly. Then a trigger to go to the third slide if that question was answered incorrectly. Etc. etc. etc.  What a headache. 

I assume it'd be easier using JavaScript to create and step through the list of remediation slides. However, I don't have that expertise. 

Here's what I suggest instead:

  • Use the built-in Review Quiz function.
  • Add the built-in Review layer to each question. Storyline will automatically add that layer when you enter text in the Post-quiz review field when looking at the question in Form View

  • In Slide View, you can edit the Review layer as desired. 
    • Typically, one would simply put remedial text on this layer.
    • You could also put a button that lightboxes the corresponding slide content. This would allow the user to review that content.
    • With extra programming, you could force the user to view the lightbox. To do that, you'll need to use variables and conditions to control the NEXT button.
      • To be able to add triggers that hide/disable the NEXT button, you'd first need to add NEXT to the slide in the Slide Properties. Then trigger to hide it when the quiz is being taken. And trigger to disable it during Review if that question was answered incorrectly. 
      • Again, I don't think that's worth the effort. 

Oh, and here's a similar yet simpler option: 

  • Provide immediate feedback to each question. 
  • Do this on the Incorrect layer for each question:
    • Add a trigger that hides or disables the Continue button when the layer's timeline starts. 
    • Add a button to lightbox the corresponding slide. 
    • Add an extra trigger to that button to enable the Continue button.