Branching Quiz with single results slide
Dec 11, 2013
We're attempting to create a quiz with branching logic inside the quiz. The closest example I've found while searching the forum is this project by Valentino Santana. In her case, the task was to create a multi-language course that was preceded by a selection slide, which offered a choice of 8 languages. However, in her case each branch was self-contained:
In our case, the quiz has internal branching.
We've run into the same problem exporting results as Valentino, namely that in our above example there are 12 questions but each user will only ever see 5 per attempt. Assuming each is worth 1 point, the results slide will always calculate the score totals out of 12 points instead of 5.
Based on what we've seen, the only solution to this is to isolate each branch and create multiple results slides. Then use a final results slide that polls the other slides. As shown below this results in an almost absurdly complex structure for what you'd think would be a common use-case.
First, are we going in the right direction, or is there some easier way? Second, this doesn't fully address the problem, since the single, mega results slide, which we need for reporting to SCORM Cloud, is still pulling information from the branch the user follows and the other 5 branches they don't.
If each question is worth 1 point, we want a user with 5 points to display as having a 100% score in SCORM Cloud. Yes, we can reduce the threshold for passing to account for users being unable to ever achieve a 100%, but we feel it'll be unintuitive for the folks looking at the outputted data to see "Final Score: "33.3% (Pass)"
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Hi Richard,
I'm not sure I'm following your last image, but, Valentino's example in that thread is a commonly used one and one we often share. If the user is receiving completely separate questions based on a few paths as your last image indicates, it seems like you're headed in the right direction as it makes the navigation more complex. There is another discussion here about branching with a quiz, and the ability to remove the score information from the slide (in the event that the user won't be able to look at their score in the LMS but just that they passed) if that would help resolve some of your user confusion.
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