Building a Course

Hi Lenore,

I'm not sure if there is officially a "best practice" in this case, but I would probably put the exam in a separate scene if it is going to be a large one. This gives you much more flexibility as you further develop your course in case you later decide that you want to move it to a different part of the course. If it is in a scene of its own, you don't need to move any slides to achieve this, you simply have to move the trigger that calls up the quiz to a different slide.

The other advantage is that if you start having a problem with your course, it is easier to fault find if you can separate the two main components.

Hope this helps.

Hi, Lenore,

I don't know if there's a "best practice" for every course and every developer. In other words, do what works best for you in this sort of situation. 

Since you're new and aren't sure what works best, I'll offer this advice.

• If you put the exam in its own scene, you'll be able to preview just the exam, instead of needing to preview the whole course to check the exam. 
  • I like to keep sets of slides (each topic, the quiz) in separate scenes for the above reason. Plus, I think it makes it easier to find a given slide, because I'm only looking within a subset of slides (aka a scene) at a time. But, again, this is a matter of preference. Some folks like having everything all together.
• If you want to randomize the question order, you could put the exam in a Question Bank.
  • Refer to the user guides and tutorials for info on how to do that. Those details start here: https://community.articulate.com/series/articulate-storyline-360/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-to-use-question-banks.