Hoping for a new answer to an old question - Partial scores for Multi-answer questions - And submitting the results

May 19, 2020

Hello team - my last minute feedback!

"The questions are too difficult"

"We love the questions.. but where there are 5 right answers and 8 wrong ones, the user deserves credit for selecting, say, 4 of them.."

Have to say I agree. I saw a suggestion to build the score in a variable with triggers here: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/partial-credit-for-multiple-option-question

...but I cant see how to assign that score to the question? - so the final score is correct? 

The only option I can see, is to abandon the variable Results.ScorePoints and add the score up manually into my own variable ? - I dont really want to have to do this for 20 questions? and what will the LMS report look like?

 

3 Replies
Lauren Connelly

Hi Adam!

You're correct, the option would be to abandon the Results.ScorePoints and customize your own variable. Partial scoring is still a feature our team is looking at but I don't have any current updates to share.

I appreciate you coming forward to share why partial scoring will strongly impact your courses! We'll report back to this discussion when we have an update. 

Jana Chamberlin

Hi All,

Is it safe for me to assume this continues to be something that is being looked into?  I haven't found anything that indicates that it has been resolved and I find it to be a little concerning that when I search for an answer that I'm seeing this having been requested for 8+ years.  I've submitted a feature request assuming this remains something outstanding.

To add to Adam's comments, a lot of what I build for my learners are scenario-based interactions and oftentimes there are opportunities where there is more than one thing that could or should be done during that interaction.  Part of my job is to ensure that I am imparting something of value to the learner who is taking the course but to also assess/evaluate their understanding of the content.

True/False or Multiple Choice question sets are built to be rigid and locked in with only one correct answer.  However, when you select Multiple Answer (MA) you inherently leave that rigidity behind for something that is more complex.  By not allowing to score +/- for each answer selected in an MA set we are implying that it isn't by saying "You have to get everything right or you've done nothing right".  

If anyone has any updates for what has worked and reports properly to an LMS that would be appreciated.  I did check out the link that Adam posted above and will be working through that in order to see if I can manipulate it to fit our needs.

Thank you!

 

Leslie McKerchie

I appreciate you sharing your use case and your feature request with our team, Jana. 

Yes. This is still an open feature request we are tracking. I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests, which may be helpful. 

Currently, you can grade a few questions by choice. This option is only available for Multiple Choice, Word Bank, Freeform Pick One, and Freeform Hotspot questions.

Storyline 360: Assigning a Score to Graded Questions