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.
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.
Appreciate that this is an old thread Matt but am interested to know if you ever achieved a solution to randomly generate a slide order linked to a random number generator?
Also, +1 on having the ability to remove a question from a question bank draw once it has been viewed.
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.
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.
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?
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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.
Appreciate that this is an old thread Matt but am interested to know if you ever achieved a solution to randomly generate a slide order linked to a random number generator?
Also, +1 on having the ability to remove a question from a question bank draw once it has been viewed.
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.
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.
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?
Hi F L!
Sorry to hear you ran into this hiccup with a Question Bank in Storyline 360!
I see that you've also opened a support case and connected with our support engineers. Great move! Glad to see this issue has been sorted out!
If you run into any setbacks moving forward please let us know!