Bilingual Quiz

May 29, 2013

Hi,

I've created a bilingual course (french and english) using layers and variables throughout he course so that users can toggle between english and french the whole way through. It works great.... BUT...

When it comes to the quiz I'm at a loss of what to do now. I can't create a layered quiz slide where I have the question in english on one layer, french on the other like the rest of my course, so that doesn't work. I tried to make two paths, an english path, and a french path, both with results slides, and while that works to some degree, when the user would try to review the quiz, it gets messed up because it wants to sort through the slides in order, so on the review, if I hit the next button, it goes to the next slide in the course which isn't the next part of the review. The other problem with the two paths is that I'm not sure how the results will get tracked in an LMS either. I need it to track the results of the french quiz, or the english quiz, not both.

Does anyone have any idea on how I can set this up? Storyline's idea of 'bilingual' seems to be only in relation to translating a course and having two completely separate versions, but this really doesn't work when you need a course to be fully bilingual throughout. I've worked most of this out, just majorly need help with figuring out the quiz portion.

Thanks!

8 Replies
Gordon Harding

We have used quizmaker '09 for our quizzes. We have not tried this in Storyline so I am unsure if this works.

On the first page of the test we ask if the user what language they want to use for the test. (Some users take the course in English but want to take the quiz in their native French.)

On submit we branch to the English or the French section. This question is a survey question so it does not score. The English questions are duplicated in French.

On the last question of the English and French sections we branch to the end of the quiz.

We were worried that the score would be calculated from all the questions but the score is calculated from the questions in the section you complete. So, you can score 100% just by answering the English questions.

Does that help?

G

Crystal Woods

Yes! Thank you so much for your quick response. I had it set up to branch to French and English but Storyline seems to be able to do the same in that it can score 100% by selected questions, so that's perfect. I had hoped that there would be a way to do it using layers like the rest of the course so that users could toggle the quiz questions between french and english too and not have to branch everything, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to be possible.

Thanks again!

Alison Coops

I know this was 4 years ago, but I can't find a more recent relevant thread.  I'm trying to do the same thing except one with a freeform drag and drop and one keyboard accessible.  What do you mean by "section"?  I currently have 2 question banks, one accessible and one not.  Are you not randomizing questions, just have one on slides 50-60 and one on slides 60-70 for example?

Leslie McKerchie

Hey Alison! This was a while back and I'm not sure that Gordon is still subscribed or active to be able to get back to you on your question here.

I read section as a question bank in his response above, but I can't speak for him of course.

Sounds like you are wanting a custom set-up with some branching within Storyline? I'm not following your question about the randomizing and number of slides? If you can elaborate on that, hopefully we can help you out.

Alison Coops

Hi Leslie, If I had 2 question banks - one with drag and drop and one keyboard accessible - how would I get one result slide with whatever quiz they took to report back to the LMS?  For now, I'm not using question banks at all.  I ask if they need a keyboard accessible quiz and it branches appropriately. It works fine (actually I haven't checked yet to see if it's scoring appropriately), but it doesn't randomize the questions - they're in a fixed order because they're slides, not in a question bank.

Leslie McKerchie

Hi Alison,

Storyline lets you track a course either by the number of slides viewed or by a single quiz (result slide). Tracking both measurements or multiple quiz scores for the same course isn't supported. However, you may be able to track more than one SCO (shareable content object) in a single course using one of the methods in this article.

Storyline does allow a result slide that is the 'result of results slides', but you would need to adjust the pass percentage to accomodate the branching. A fellow community member explains it well here.

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