Randomised Storyline Quizzing

Oct 27, 2023

joel colley
By joel colley

Hi all

I've built a quiz in Storyline that draws randomly from a quiz bank. All is going well except for one matter. When it comes to retrying incorrect questions, can the learner retry new randomised questions rather than only the one's they got incorrect. Here's what I mean. Say you got 3/10 questions wrong. Rather than being presented with those same one's again, can you presented with 3 new one's? 

A colleague of mine is hoping this is the case, so thought I'd do my due diligence. Couldn't find anything in the user guides that clarified this matter either way.

thanks

6 Replies
Steven Benassi
6 months ago10/31/23 at 7:11 pm (UTC)

Hi Joel!

It sounds like you wanted to give your learners multiple options for questions when taking a quiz in Storyline. I'd be happy to help with that!

One approach is adding multiple question banks to your course and including slides that draw from these question banks. You can then use triggers to jump to the question draw slides to display your quizzes. I've attached a sample .story file for your reference!

Also, if you are comfortable sharing the project file you've built out so far, I'd be happy to take a closer look to ensure it's functioning as intended.

Thanks for reaching out! Please let me know if you have any more questions!

joel colley
6 months ago11/06/23 at 7:21 am (UTC)

Hi Steven, thanks for your response and sample project file. I've attached my project file so that hopefully it makes more sense. My sample file draws 3 questions randomly from the quiz bank, requires a passing score of 100% and allows you to retry only incorrect questions. 

If the learner was to get 2 questions incorrect, would they be presented with the exact same questions again or is there a way that they could be presented with 2 random questions to cover for those they got wrong?

Hopefully that makes sense.

 

thanks 

Jose Tansengco
6 months ago11/06/23 at 5:32 pm (UTC)

Hi Joel,

Thanks for sharing a copy of your project file. 

In the 'Failure' layer of Slide 1.3 Quiz Results, you can disable the “Reset only incorrect questions” option to give your learners a fresh set of questions on a retry attempt. 

You can read more about what this option does and what to expect when you disable this option here. Note that there's no guarantee that none of the original 3 questions will be included in the retry attempt, but there's a high chance that majority if not all of the questions will be new during the retry.

Let me know if this works for you! 

joel colley
6 months ago11/09/23 at 3:31 am (UTC)

Thanks Jose! I wish to avoid making them redo the whole quiz should they fail. It seems like what I'm hoping to achieve isn't possible. I'm ok with that, I just wanted to do my due diligence before hand. Can you or another staff member please confirm if my original goal is or is not possible please?

Steven Benassi
6 months ago11/09/23 at 4:17 pm (UTC)

Hi Joel!

Happy to jump in here!

I can confirm the solution Joe shared is the best approach for the type of functionality you're looking to achieve. However, having more randomized flexibility over which new questions a learner is presented with sounds like an interesting concept I can share with our team!

In the meantime, perhaps our knowledgeable community would be able to offer additional insight or suggestions!

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