Quiz progress indicator

Hello Sam!

You may want to take a look at this thread here where some options were discussed. Here is another thread with a file by Phil. Also you may want to look here for some ideas.

Thanks Emily.  Those pages are about progress indicators for the course, not the quiz.

Hello Sam,

Do you have a solution for an indicator during the quiz? A complicating factor is that the questions are randomly drawn from the question bank.

IMO learners want an indicator of some kind.  "Should I finish the quiz or go to lunch?" kind of thing.

We opt for placing simple text progress like 4 of 10 in a slide corner.

The slide master has a %n% of 10 and the quiz itself has a trigger to set variable n.

Now this works but you've got to be careful for a random draw. 

There is an intro slide that tells the learner you gotta get this passing score etc, but importantly, sets variable n to zero.

Every random draw question drawn sets variable n = n +1

So far so good.

Learner passes great.  Learner fails, send him back to the quiz intro so variable n is reset to zero for the next round. 

Now... what happens if you include a "Review Quiz" button. This is a problem, it may work out if the Review Quiz button has a trigger to set variable n = 0 again.

Sam

Hi Sam,

Thanks for the quick reply. It sounds complicated. It will not be a standard solution. I am thinking about adding a variable to the submit button. But it will take some time the have it running without problems.

Complicated is relative.  I overlooked mentioning that the master quiz slide holds the trigger to increment variable n to n+1 so actually there is no coding on each quiz question.

Could you share it with me?

I'll PM you.

I'm very interested in this topic. Please let us know if you can make up a solution.

I managed to make a progress bar that indicates the progress that is made during a test, even when questions are randomly drawn from the question bank.

My solution:

First, make a variable, let say progress

Build a trigger setting this variable to the value zero before the test starts

Add a trigger to the submit button that add a value to the variable

Insert a slider in the question

Have the slider value equal to the value of the variable progress

This way, the number of times the submit button is used, determines the slider value

Brilliant!

Attached is the story file I build. I have used a variable and triggers to have a slider show the progress a student makes during the test. This work even when questions are drawn randomly from a question bank.

Great... thanks :)