Prevent a question from be randomly selected twice from a question

Jun 25, 2013

Hello!

I want to randomly draw upon questions from a question bank. My bank consists of 5 questions. My module has 3 ‘blank’ question slides, whereby 1 question from the bank should be randomly selected to appear on each blank slide.

 The problem is this: when I publish the course, question “ABC”  is randomly drawn upon from the question bank more than once.

How do I signal to Storyline that, once a question has been randomly selected and presented to a user,  it cannot be drawn upon again.

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31 Replies
Matt Garratt

Thanks Ashley.

Returning the slide with a 'reset to initial state' will mean the user has to repeat questions so not really suitable in this case.

The best work around I can think of is to manually generate a random slide order each time using a random number generator like the ones mentioned here.

I'll keep persevering.

Matt Garratt

Hi David, it ended up in the too hard basket. I ended up putting each question on its own slide (not using question banks) and then branched out all the possible pathways so the questions were unfortunately not randomly selected. This made the test more repetitive and also made it too hard to use additional questions we were originally going to add to the question banks to boost question variety which sucks.

Tracey Stokely

I used Pat Simon's suggestion above and it works. However, even though I put these new triggers at the beginning of each question, it displays the re-asked question for a moment and then moves on to the next, and if that one was already asked, it then shows the next. Unfortunately, it briefly shows the already asked questions, which could be multiple ones, until it finally gets to one that hasn't been asked. So, it might be confusing for the learner to see this. I agree that showing a question that has already been asked IS a bug in Storyline. Other authoring tools don't have this issue and the bug should be fixed or the question pool functionality needs to be redesigned so we don't have to do these work arounds.

F L

Hi.  I see this thread is old.  I am using SL 360.  Am I correct in understanding there is still an issue? 

I have a 4 question Question Bank.  The Draw is set to 3 and Draw questions randomly is checked.  All questions are set to "randomly" include in the shuffle. I was expecting SL would pull 3 of the 4 questions and each of the 3 questions would be different.   Instead it is pulling one of the questions twice.   

This i not the behavior I was expecting.  Is there another setting I need to change?