Help with randomising questions using question banks in Articulate 360
Jul 19, 2018
I'm hoping someone out there can help me, I have created a quiz with 5 different question banks, 30 questions in total. I want to select different random questions from each bank at each attempt, to a total of 15 questions. So for example select 2 from bank A, 4 from bank B, 2 from bank C, 5 from bank D and 2 from bank E.
I 'm sure I have set this up right in 360, however when I go to view the slide draw the 'include x questions' field always seems to default back to 'all', giving me way too many questions for my quiz!
Has anyone else come up against this challenge? I have gone through the slide draw and re-selected my preferences then saved, and even saved my settings for each question bank individually however it keeps resetting.
Screenshots included below, thanks in advance!
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Hi there, Rebecca. That doesn't sound right! After I create a draw and choose how many, I was able to view that same question draw slide again from Story View with the settings saved.
Can you take a Peek screencast of what you're seeing on your end?
Also, is this happening in one file in particular? If you can share your .story file, I'll check it out!
Hi I find that my file is behaving in a similar way to yours, however see the video below for what is happening - when the file is published it doesn't save the settings and displays all the questions instead of selecting them randomly.
I have 4 files that are behaving the same way... do you think it may be worth me starting again and copying the question slides over into a new file?
Hi Rebecca. When you modify your question draw slide, it looks like you might be trying to do a draw from multiple question banks. When you add a draw, it can pull from only one of your question banks. When you used the dropdown at the top to change question banks, it will reset the rest of the draw options, like the number of questions being pulled for that draw.
Once you choose a bank, and then the number of questions and save it, you should find that you are getting only that number from that question bank. To draw more questions from other banks, you'll use a draw slide for each bank. If you want to really intersperse questions from multiple banks, you might need to use more draw slides.
After publishing, you're right - once the settings are saved, you should only see the number of questions you've chosen. If that's not happening, let's have a look at your .story file and try to find out why.
Hi Crystal, your suggestion worked - I just changed the settings for the draw I had clicked on then saved it, went out of the pop up box and selected the next draw. once I changed the settings for each draw individually and published it worked, thank you!
So glad to hear that Rebecca and thanks for the update!
What is meant by "draw slide for each bank"?
Hi, Martin.
Thank you for reaching out!
When you have multiple quiz banks, you need to create a draw (selection of questions) per bank, as you won't be able to mix them into a single draw.
You can only pick one bank at a time:
In the example below, I have questions coming from three banks, but all in separate draws:
I hope this helps!
Hi Maria
Thank you for the replay.
But you are incorrect, I have now accomplished the selection of different draws from many question banks.
All within one scene
14 topics/banks with varying degrees of draw from 3 to 5 questions. 120 question test from about 500 questions.
All from a mixed bank of questions
Thank you
Hi, Martin.
Yes, a scene can have several draws from different banks, but a single draw cannot include questions from multiple question banks.
I hope this helps!
Well, something is wrong then because that's what I'm doing and it's working.
Perhaps it's a mix up in the way I'm explaining it !
Hi, Martin.
Do you have a sample .story file you can share?
I'm very curious about the way you're setting up your project with your question banks, and I would love to learn about your process!