Introducing the Invisible "Ghost" Assessment and how to create it.
Sep 22, 2016
I wrote about this concept a while back in another thread, but as it turns out, I have recently discovered a slightly different use for "invisible assessments" and felt it deserved a fresh discussion. Link to old discussion
The NEW Scenario: I was asked by a colleague if StoryLine could be used to publish a short and basic Video (called a Knowledge Nugget internally) on our LMS and only give credit for completion if the user watched most/all of the video.
The Solution: The course shell I created launches the video and at certain points in the video timeline, toggles corresponding "Viewed" variables from False to True. At the end of the video, the users passes through an assessment without seeing it and the variables change the state of the correct assessment responses to "Selected" if the variable value is = to True. Otherwise, it changes the incorrect assessment responses to selected and the user fails the course. The net result is that if the user watches the full video, they get credit. I've attached the very simple proof of concept that I created to demo to my colleague that this could be done. In the actual course, the user does not see the result slide either but instead sees a "Thank You" if they watched the whole video or a "you watched less than xx% of the video" slide if they skipped forward.
Feel free to post other ideas and uses for "ghost assessments". I always love your creativity.
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Thanks for popping in to share Owen :) Much appreciated.
Popping in with a quick thanks, I'll be using this technique in an upcoming project!
Glad that this will be able to assist you as well Deanna :)
Always happy to hear that something I've shared is useful to someone else. :-)
Used this concept as well for a course with multiple paths and questions at the end of each. The user only need complete the assessment at the end of any path and it controls the answers of a ghost master assessment. The master works with the LMS. The use of the ghost makes every quiz a valid option to be reported to the LMS.
Owen, I noticed it wouldn't let me set the time above 1000 seconds. Any idea how to use this with a longer video?
I know that Owen is still pretty active in our forums, so hopefully you'll hear from him soon Traci. You are certainly welcome to reach out directly via the 'Contact Me' option on the user profile if you do not hear back soon.
Traci, I'm not sure which "time" you are trying to set or reference... could you post a screen shot?
You could also try adding cue points to be the triggers for the hidden questions.
Thanks, we are trying to get an idea of how many videos people watched in the project.
Does this work for embedded videos hosted on YouTube?
Honestly, I haven't tested that but I'm not entirely sure it would. You could use que points on the slide's timeline and have that match the length of the movie... but there would be no way to know if the participant just skipped to the end of the video and then let the timeline of the slide run out.
As this is an old post with an old solution, there might be better, more current methodologies for what you are trying to achieve. Have you looked into xAPI functionality as a possible solution?