Quiz - Allow users to edit their answers before final submit

Aug 22, 2014

We've set up a quiz in Storyline, once that allows users to review AND EDIT/CHANGE their answers before a final submission, without using the Feedback option , as we do not want to give any feedback on correct or incorrect, for each quiz question. Is there a way to make this happen, without needing to complete Feedback Layers?

When previewing, without feedback, in Storyline and even after a publish the user is able to go back to the questions, but is unable to change their answer.

27 Replies
Greg Faust

Hi, Shannon,

Yes, what you ask is possible. There are two ways Storyline "locks in" a quiz answer:

  1. On the quiz slide itself. When the user clicks the "Submit" button, this fires the "Submit Interaction" trigger. As the presentation advances to the next slide, the answer is locked in.
  2. Any time a results slide loads, it automatically locks in ALL quiz questions that it's grading-- even if some of them were not yet completed (so skipped questions are simply graded as being wrong).

It sounds like you want option 2; all quiz questions get submitted at the same time.

All you have to do is disable that "Submit Interaction" trigger. The quickest way to do this is to turn off the Submit button and replace it with the Next button:

With your quiz slides selected in Story View, you'll see "Slide Navigation Controls" on the right. Uncheck "Submit". Check "Next" (and probably "Prev" as well, if you want learners to be able to navigate freely).

If you want, you can also customize the triggers on the slide right before your results slide so it pops up with a warning to the learner that they're about to submit all questions for grading.

Marion McKelvie

I have tried this but although it allows changes to pre built template questions I have created some using the pick one and states / variables  - I am finding that it will mark correct, mark incorrect allow me to change from wrong to right but if I had the right answer first pass and make a change to the wrong answer the score does not reflect this.  anyone help.

 

 

 

Leslie McKerchie

Hi Kandice!

By default, question slides in Articulate Storyline have a Submit button, meaning each question will be submitted one at a time for evaluation and feedback will be displayed immediately. If you want all the questions to be submitted at the same time at the end of the quiz, change the navigation controls from Submit buttons to Prev/Next buttons. This will allow answers to be updated before submission if needed as well. Here's how.
Ron Lutka

Greg/Leslie, this worked well except for two things:

1) When users return to an earlier essay slide to revise the content it takes a long time for the cursor to become ready. We will lose learners as they will not know they have to wait or would not want to wait for the cursor to become activated each time the user wishes to insert the cursor within the text. Is this an Articulate Online free demo problem only? <<< EDIT - I think this was a user 'left click - right click' problem. It seems users need to right click to revise text.

2) The fact that we cannot print survey essays (this has already been submitted by someone about two weeks ago and Articulate is looking into it)

Ron Lutka

Here is the case number, Leslie. I took it from the link below: case number
01051222

 https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/printing-r
esults-from-storyline-360

 I hope this gets fixed soon as it is my second last hurdle before going
final. My last hurdle is having a clean way to generate and print completion
certificates. I see Articulate has a work around I might need to use.

Regards,

Ron

Wendy Farmer

Hi Indrani

on the quiz slides you have a submit button but no Next button so as soon as the user clicks submit they have answered the question.  If you want them to be able to review the quiz you'll need to have a Next button so they can move between the slides before the interaction is submitted.

Here is the tutorial when using this approach with the player navigation - you'll need to add additional triggers to make it work with your custom navigation.

 

Wendy Farmer

Hi Indrani

you'd need to add a Prev / Next custom button on the slide with your Submit button. 

You'd probably need an instruction at the beginning to the user they can navigate back and forward using the Prev/Next to change their answers but once they click Submit, the answer is recorded.

Wendy Farmer

Hi Indrani

if you were using the built in player navigation, you can set the slides to have the previous and next buttons so users can go back and forth checking their answers and then when they get to the end they can submit them altogether.

Because you are using custom navigation, if you wanted them to have the option of going back and forth without submitting you'd need to add those custom buttons.

Perhaps add a tooltip 'Are you sure?' when they click the submit button if you think they are going to want to change their answer.

 

Hattie Whiteside

Hi, 

I have successfully set up my quiz with just 'prev' and 'next' buttons and a 'submit all' at the end... but unfortunately if they press ENTER this submits their response and they are unable to amend it when they review their answers. Is there a way to disable this? I'm using numeric questions. 

Many thanks, 

Hattie

Hattie Whiteside

Hi Lauren, 

I've attached an abridged version (the real one is 40 questions). I've tried to set it up to discourage the learner from pressing enter and given them the option to reset before their final submission- not ideal as they then lose all their recorded answers. 

A fix would be great!

Thanks, 

Hattie

Lauren Connelly

Hi Hattie!

It looks like we need to change the number of attempts!

Please take a look at this tutorial, where I've explained how to add an extra attempt so the learner can edit their answer when reviewing. I've also attached the updated file to the reply. Let me know if you have additional questions!