I am creating a quiz of 25 questions. Those 25 questions are pulled from a test bank. Can anyone help with what I need to do to create a progress bar or number them in some way? I like how the number/progress is shown here. I can create the formatting, but how do I account for the question slides being pulled randomly and the numbering needing to change on each slide?
I made a quick video that shows you how you can count how many questions are being displayed from a quizbank in you published course. I made 2 different versions, one that is text based (you have 3 of 4 questions left) and one that is more visual based as the example above.
I'll also included the source files for you to play with:
This works in principle, however.... When I close the source files, reopen them and relook at the preview of the course the quiz questions revert back to the main slide layout. I go into the quizbank and some of the questions have the slidemaster applied and some do not. I have to reapply the slidemaster and then preview again to see this work.
So one way around this would be to create a layout just within the slide master set that already exists, but I don't think the error I'm seeing should be occuring. Thoughts?
Sure. I reopen the file from yesterday. Go directly to preview and the questions are in the "dark blue scheme".
I then close the preview, open the question bank to look at the applied layouts, and the first slide in the question bank now has reverted from the pink layout I applied to the dark layout.
So, are you ever seeing the pink color in the slide view or when previewing? Or is it just in that side bar question bank view? I do not see it anywhere else.
Are you still having this problem? I need to add this functionality to my quiz but if it isn't functioning properly I don't want spend the time adding the function. I have a test bank of 77 questions. Thanks
Add a text box with %SlideNumber% in the upper right corner (or where ever you would like your count) on master quiz question slide
Add a trigger to that master slide that says "add 1.00 to Slide Number when the timeline starts
Previously I had tabs that showed each question and they would be highlighted as you visited that question number; however, when you reentered the quiz for a second attempt, you started in at a random place in the quiz. After submitting a ticket to Articulate, they determined it was the number of triggers I had for my fancy progress measure, which is why I went back to the fix above.
Thank you so much for your posts! I was trying to figure this out for a long time and this gave me a big break-through. The one thing I'm struggling with now is a way to ensure that the variable counts backwards correctly when you're reviewing the quiz. Currently, it keeps increasing, so you get "Question 7 of 6", "Question 8 of 6", etc.
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Hey Leslie:
I made a quick video that shows you how you can count how many questions are being displayed from a quizbank in you published course. I made 2 different versions, one that is text based (you have 3 of 4 questions left) and one that is more visual based as the example above.
I'll also included the source files for you to play with:
http://www.tracyparish.ca/portfolio/how-to-display-the-number-of-questions-remaining-in-a-random-quiz
I have a question for the Staff though:
This works in principle, however.... When I close the source files, reopen them and relook at the preview of the course the quiz questions revert back to the main slide layout. I go into the quizbank and some of the questions have the slidemaster applied and some do not. I have to reapply the slidemaster and then preview again to see this work.
So one way around this would be to create a layout just within the slide master set that already exists, but I don't think the error I'm seeing should be occuring. Thoughts?
Hi Tracy!
Either I'm not seeing the behavior you are reporting here or I am not understanding. Could you share screenshots of what you are reporting?
Sure. I reopen the file from yesterday. Go directly to preview and the questions are in the "dark blue scheme".
I then close the preview, open the question bank to look at the applied layouts, and the first slide in the question bank now has reverted from the pink layout I applied to the dark layout.
Oh, I think I see it now Tracy.
So, are you ever seeing the pink color in the slide view or when previewing? Or is it just in that side bar question bank view? I do not see it anywhere else.
If I import into a new file, I do not see the behavior anymore. Does this file work for you as expected?
The one you sent to me doesn't have the second "pink slidemaster" included.
Interesting, perhaps because your slides must not have been using that. Is that what you needed or am I missing something?
Tracy,
I got pulled to another project for a bit. Now that I'm back on the quiz progress, I wanted to say "THANKS!" Your screencast helped immensely!
Are you still having this problem? I need to add this functionality to my quiz but if it isn't functioning properly I don't want spend the time adding the function. I have a test bank of 77 questions. Thanks
Hi Diane!
Looks like Tracy's solution was able to assist Leslie Fetzer here :)
Hi Diane,
Here is the solution I ended up with:
Previously I had tabs that showed each question and they would be highlighted as you visited that question number; however, when you reentered the quiz for a second attempt, you started in at a random place in the quiz. After submitting a ticket to Articulate, they determined it was the number of triggers I had for my fancy progress measure, which is why I went back to the fix above.
Thanks so much for chiming back in and assisting Leslie :)
Thank you!!!
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Thank you so much for your posts! I was trying to figure this out for a long time and this gave me a big break-through. The one thing I'm struggling with now is a way to ensure that the variable counts backwards correctly when you're reviewing the quiz. Currently, it keeps increasing, so you get "Question 7 of 6", "Question 8 of 6", etc.
Hi Susan
you could reset the variable back to zero when the user clicks the 'review button' - just make sure the trigger is before the 'jump to slide' trigger.
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