Help! Pick Many Scoring

Hi Adam,

I'm afraid you've come up against one of Storyline's many Quizzing deficiencies. It won't allow you to set different levels of scoring, just 'correct' or 'incorrect'.

I often need to do this too. If only SL allowed us to set the system variable called 'Results.ScorePoints' equal to our OWN custom variable then you'd be able to do exactly what you want.

You could add 3 points to your custom 'mezze_score' variable for each correctly selected mezze snack and subtract 3 points for each incorrect snack selected. Then you ought to be able to make 'Results.ScorePoints' = your custom 'mezze_score'. Such a simple thing for them to have enabled yet 

It can't be done (** See suggested working solution in later posting below) people have been asking for such a basic feature for ages. It also can't be set using Javascript. I just downloaded 'Storyline 360' and tried this but it hasn't changed. Very disappointing. This is the sort of precise control over quiz scoring that users need and which I have been using in other tools for the last 25 years. Pathetic.

Maybe they don't trust us to meddle with their precious variables!

Hi Tim,

Thanks for your reply. I shall give your suggestion ago.

Variables still my nemesis as a newish user to Articulate, but practice makes perfect.

Hi Adam,

You can solve your issue by using variables but there're a lot of things you need to do. You can set your own score but you still need system score if you want to use it as a scorm object. I think with  the most of the grade questions you  can use variables to store scores . There will be many trouble things you will find out while using articulate. Good luck :))

Hi Adam,

There is a way of getting around Storyline's restrictive quiz scoring but it's rather complex to implement. But it does work! I attach an example I put together to show you how to approach it. The example includes a screen explaining what I did and how it works. 

The trick is to use Storyline's standard 'NumericEntry' quiz slide in order to 'slip' our own custom variable value by the back door into the system's formal 'Results.ScorePoints' variable. It happens so fast, Storyline doesn't even know it's been duped!

I know it's smoke and mirrors but it is a possible solution. Shouldn't be necessary if Articulate would wake up and spend development budget where it would really help users, rather than libraries of photos and posing characters.

It's not very elegant as I don't have time at the moment but I'm sure someone cleverer would be able to simplify the method.

Good luck! Tim

Hi Tim,

I really appreciate your assistance. One thing, the files are all opening as html?

Must be that Friday feeling on a Thursday

That's odd. I just downloaded it and it opens fine in SL2. There is only one file.

Adam - did you attend the Storyline workshop last week in London?

Adam - glad you are getting the assistance needed here. In regards to the files opening incorrectly, could you try in a different browser?

Adam - I downloaded it in Safari and it arrives as a single .story file. 

Using IE it asked me how I wanted to save it (it thinks it's a zip file) and when it downloaded this, it was nonsense.  Thanks Leslie!

Sorted, i was using IE, but tried again through Chrome and opened perfectly.

Tim your support has been fantastic. I am going to take some time to have a good look through and play about.

A great resource file thanks.

You are very welcome Adam. The lack of this feature has been bugging me for ages!

Lets hope that Articulate team see this as a feature for SL3

Hi Adam - You are welcome to share your thoughts with our team here.

Is there going to be an SL3 Leslie?

We are continuing to support and develop our perpetual products as well - I'd check out Brian's response here for the best understanding of our plans.

I'm a little late to this party, but I have a different workaround solution that I've used to assign part marks to multiple answer questions.

My workaround uses the built in Storyline quiz scoring.  I made the question slide on a blank slide, added some off-screen buttons for the scoring, then converted to freeform - pick one and added triggers.  Lots of triggers LOL!    If you look at the form view, all the off-screen buttons are listed as choices, each with the desired points assigned and with 5/5 identified as the correct answer.  I built custom layers for feedback, though I don't always use them.

Right now my file isn't set up to deduct for wrong answers.  It could be done though, by adding more "change state" triggers which account for the added possible answer combinations (5 right and 1 wrong triggers the 4/5 button, 5 right and 2 wrong triggers the 3/5 button, etc.).

I've been using this solution for a while (I just copy-paste in the same slide and then change its look to fit the current project), but will look into Tim's more carefully when I have a bit more time - maybe that'll turn out to be simpler!   I have versions of this slide for 2, 3 and 4 correct answers as well as this one with 5.

Sorry if my explanation isn't very clear... check out the file I've made and if it's still not clear, feel free to ask me questions.

Very cool - you are a trigger Queen!

Thanks :)  I like a challenge... though I don't always end up with the *simplest* workarounds!

Kirsti thank you for your additional input. Everyone's help and assistance as been fantastic and a great learning curve for me.

Leslie I have submitted my thoughts, heres hoping :)

Thanks Kirsti - in SL2 there's always at least three different ways to skin a cat! Off-screen buttons is approach I haven't used and I'm looking at your code right now. You use a lot of layers, but it works.

There's an 'explanation' panel in my example file, describing the role of each trigger.

Thanks Adam :)