Creating Quiz/Test files - Best Practices
Jan 29, 2015
I am about to begin a series of smaller quizzes that will draw from a pool of 1000's of questions. Many of the smaller quizzes will use the same questions. I am looking for advice on the best way to set this up. Is it better to create a "master" quiz with all the questions in it and then draw from that to create smaller quizzes (between 30 and 90 questions in each). Or is it better to create question sets of, say 100 questions, and then pull from them for the smaller quizzes? Can Storyline 2 handle large sets of questions? Will they bog down on preview? Is there a better way to set this up that I am not thinking of? Any advice/info. on set-up is greatly appreciated.
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Hello Lisa,
If you are looking to have the questions appear several times in a course, you can set them all up in a question bank, then when you need to show a quiz in your course, use the "draw from bank" option when inserting a quiz slide. You can choose how many it will pull from and even select specific questions for that slide.
Ok, can I have questions import onto a slide master? I tried it, but for some reason the master isn't applying the correct font size and layout to my screens. The images come in fine, but the other stuff if huge.
Also, can you format the appearance of the fill in the blank box before importing all the questions? I want them all to look the same, but different that how they appear in the pre-built version.
Hello Lisa,
You can set up a question slide master to make it the same for any question slide you add in. If you want to format of the fill in the blank slides, you can make changes to a question in the bank you are creating, then you can duplicate the slide to copy the changes.
Hi Emily,
I have made a question master, but the styles aren't applying - the font comes in larger than i have it set on the master ( have it set to 20 point but it appears as 57.7 or something strange). Secondly, I am importing 500 questions, so the duplicating the slide idea won't work. I need to set up the fill in the blank format prior to the import or else they all come in wrong. Am i missing something?
Here's a sample of what I mean. Slide one shows huge text even though master page has been used and the text is at 20 point on it.
Slide 2 shows the same issue plus the grey fill in the blank box that I need customized for each screen.
Hello Lisa,
If the styles on the master are not applying, you may want to follow the steps here.
If you are importing questions from a file, you may want to copy the elements from one slide to another once you get them imported.
I did everything you asked in the above reply and it still isn't working. :(
Also, it doesn't allow me to copy the "fill in the blank" box from slide to slide. So am I stuck formatting ever single slide? Would it be better to not bother using the import and just set my questions up and duplicate each slide for a new question?
Hello Lisa,
You should be able to use the "duplicate" slide option to get the text box to copy into the new slide.
Yes, I can duplicate the slide, but what's the point of importing the questions if I have to go back and remake each slide so I can have the correct formatting. Sounds to me like I am better off just creating a question slide and duplicating it and building it that way, rather than importing. I thought it would save me some time but turns out it won't if i have to format everything anyway. Not a useful feature.
There needs to be a way to format the Text Entry box before importing for this to be useful.
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