Passing our final quiz gets sent to an administrator for recording and compliance certification. How do I limit the number of tries the student can retake?
I can setup the limit on the quizzes to 3 tries with no problem. However, at that point the student is locked out and can not longer continue their training. How do you RESET the quiz limit back to zero to allow the student to try the quiz again after they have studied the material?
Great question! Part of what you'll need to consider is whether the settings on the LMS side will allow users to restart the course, or if there is a limit on course attempts in that interface. You may also want to look at adjusting the Resume Behavior for the course as well. Depending on the settings selected, learners can either start from the beginning every time, pick up where they left off, or choose to start over or resume.
The courses, that my client requested the retake limit, have more than one quiz in each lesson. So, if they reset from the LMS, the trainee would have to retake ALL of the quizzes in the lesson.
My temporary solution is the include 2 layers on the results page that are displayed after 3 quiz failures. The first layer tells the trainee that they have reached the limit for retaking the quiz. That page has a "Back to Lesson" button that allows the trainee to continue with the lesson. The page also has a check-box that says "click here after you have reviewed this information with you supervisor". When the trainee clicks the check-box, Layer 2 is displayed and the quiz can be taken 3 more times. This is repeated until the trainee passes the quiz.
As you can see, my method relies on the honesty of the trainee as they can click the check-box without seeing their supervisor.
Lauren, thanks for joining this conversation. For each lesson, there are several documents the trainee has to read and then take a quiz. Three failures on any quiz calls up Retake page 1. The "Back to the Lesson" button on Retake page 1 takes the trainee back to the Main Menu of the lesson so they can continue, read other documents and take other quizzes. If the trainee tries to take a quiz from the main menu that they have failed 3 times, they jump to Retake Page 1. So they are caught in a loop until they see their supervisor and click the check-box that takes them to Retake Page 2.
The CONTINUE button on Retake Page 2 resets the attempts to "0" for the failed quiz.
I understand! In that case, only a supervisor could grant the student permission to retake the quiz and it would be up to the honesty of the student to reach out to the supervisor to grant additional attempts. This isn't a build I've seen before, but I know others from the community have created something similar!
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Hi David,
you can set a retry button and a variable which counts the number of tries. After 3 tries you can change the state of the retry button to disabled.
Greetings,
Susi
Hey David! Looks like Susi has pointed you in the right direction. Here's a tutorial that explains how to do exactly what she recommended. :)
I can setup the limit on the quizzes to 3 tries with no problem. However, at that point the student is locked out and can not longer continue their training. How do you RESET the quiz limit back to zero to allow the student to try the quiz again after they have studied the material?
Hi Victor,
Great question! Part of what you'll need to consider is whether the settings on the LMS side will allow users to restart the course, or if there is a limit on course attempts in that interface. You may also want to look at adjusting the Resume Behavior for the course as well. Depending on the settings selected, learners can either start from the beginning every time, pick up where they left off, or choose to start over or resume.
The courses, that my client requested the retake limit, have more than one quiz in each lesson. So, if they reset from the LMS, the trainee would have to retake ALL of the quizzes in the lesson.
My temporary solution is the include 2 layers on the results page that are displayed after 3 quiz failures. The first layer tells the trainee that they have reached the limit for retaking the quiz. That page has a "Back to Lesson" button that allows the trainee to continue with the lesson. The page also has a check-box that says "click here after you have reviewed this information with you supervisor". When the trainee clicks the check-box, Layer 2 is displayed and the quiz can be taken 3 more times. This is repeated until the trainee passes the quiz.
As you can see, my method relies on the honesty of the trainee as they can click the check-box without seeing their supervisor.
Hi Victor!
What about using a variable to determine which lesson they go back to?
Would you mind sharing your file so we can brainstorm? You can do so by using the "Add Attachment" button in this discussion.
Lauren, thanks for joining this conversation. For each lesson, there are several documents the trainee has to read and then take a quiz. Three failures on any quiz calls up Retake page 1. The "Back to the Lesson" button on Retake page 1 takes the trainee back to the Main Menu of the lesson so they can continue, read other documents and take other quizzes. If the trainee tries to take a quiz from the main menu that they have failed 3 times, they jump to Retake Page 1. So they are caught in a loop until they see their supervisor and click the check-box that takes them to Retake Page 2.
The CONTINUE button on Retake Page 2 resets the attempts to "0" for the failed quiz.
Hello Victor!
I understand! In that case, only a supervisor could grant the student permission to retake the quiz and it would be up to the honesty of the student to reach out to the supervisor to grant additional attempts. This isn't a build I've seen before, but I know others from the community have created something similar!
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