I'm working on building a drag and drop interaction in which I'd like partial credit to be awarded for getting some of the drag/drops correct. It looks like I can do this using a custom variable and triggers, which is fine, but how do I then have that score reported on a results slide so it shows up on a SCORM report and is tracked for pass/fail? It doesn't appear that I can assign a system variable equal to a custom variable. Am I missing something?
You can't convert the score to text, but you could set up another question to calculate the score - so say using a pick one question with a set of offstage objects. You could set up some triggers and condtions to adjust which object is in a selected state based on the value of your variable (say select object 1 worth 10 points if the variable is greater than or equal to the total possible points for your drag and drop, select object 2 which is 8 points if the variable is less than 10 but greater than or equal to 8, and so on) as that question type allows you to set the score by choice and have a number of different options. It's a bit more complicated of a set up - but I think it would achieve the behavior you're describing.
Hi Michael! I was just experimenting with this and came up with something that might work for you. It is one way to achieve what Ashley has suggested.
I created a regular MC question and then built a drag & drop interaction over top of it on the same slide. I'm using a variable and some triggers to select the appropriate MC question answer based on many correct items have been dropped on the target. (Note that I haven't added anything to account for someone dragging and item back off the target before submitting or any other "error checking" logic.)
Hi, would the above solution work from a matching drag and drop as well as the kind of drag and drop that is set up here (where everything is dragged to one location)? Also, the file that is attached above is not opening for me -- it appears to be an .htm file, not a .story file.
I have seen some users have issue with older .story files. I'm re-attaching for you to take a look.
This thread is a bit dated, but once you are able to peek at the file that Mike shared, let me know if you have further questions or if that assists you.
He never shows when someone puts the wrong answer in the drop box. I understood the way to give partial credit. When I recreated this, and selected the wrong answer but also selected the correct answers, they got the total points. Not sure how to address this. Am working on how to limit the number of answers they can select. Plus, this is over 5 years old and I don't think there's been a fix yet for partial credit for matching and drag and drop. I had a project that had two matching question slides (and that was all the review). If they missed any on either slide, they made a 50% for the course. Had to change that up. I ended up making multiple choice questions from the matching. Not sure that offering drag and drop and matching for quizzes is any help if there is not a way to give partial credit.
If you can provide your .story file, we're happy to take a look as well. You can either attach it to this discussion or upload it privately in a support case.
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Hi Michael,
If you'd like to report the value of a variable to your LMS you'll want to use this method here as you can't access or change the system variables.
Hope that helps!
Thanks but that doesn't work because I'm trying to pass a number variable and this will only let me pass text. Can I convert my score to text somehow?
You can't convert the score to text, but you could set up another question to calculate the score - so say using a pick one question with a set of offstage objects. You could set up some triggers and condtions to adjust which object is in a selected state based on the value of your variable (say select object 1 worth 10 points if the variable is greater than or equal to the total possible points for your drag and drop, select object 2 which is 8 points if the variable is less than 10 but greater than or equal to 8, and so on) as that question type allows you to set the score by choice and have a number of different options. It's a bit more complicated of a set up - but I think it would achieve the behavior you're describing.
Hi Michael! I was just experimenting with this and came up with something that might work for you. It is one way to achieve what Ashley has suggested.
I created a regular MC question and then built a drag & drop interaction over top of it on the same slide. I'm using a variable and some triggers to select the appropriate MC question answer based on many correct items have been dropped on the target. (Note that I haven't added anything to account for someone dragging and item back off the target before submitting or any other "error checking" logic.)
I've attached my example.
Hi, would the above solution work from a matching drag and drop as well as the kind of drag and drop that is set up here (where everything is dragged to one location)? Also, the file that is attached above is not opening for me -- it appears to be an .htm file, not a .story file.
Thanks!!
Hi Anne!
I have seen some users have issue with older .story files. I'm re-attaching for you to take a look.
This thread is a bit dated, but once you are able to peek at the file that Mike shared, let me know if you have further questions or if that assists you.
I watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFKFrfM4BUU
He never shows when someone puts the wrong answer in the drop box. I understood the way to give partial credit. When I recreated this, and selected the wrong answer but also selected the correct answers, they got the total points. Not sure how to address this. Am working on how to limit the number of answers they can select. Plus, this is over 5 years old and I don't think there's been a fix yet for partial credit for matching and drag and drop. I had a project that had two matching question slides (and that was all the review). If they missed any on either slide, they made a 50% for the course. Had to change that up. I ended up making multiple choice questions from the matching. Not sure that offering drag and drop and matching for quizzes is any help if there is not a way to give partial credit.
Hello Jan!
Great question! I see that many of our community members have found success after reading this discussion: Is there a way to score each individual match of a drag and drop?
If you can provide your .story file, we're happy to take a look as well. You can either attach it to this discussion or upload it privately in a support case.