I'm working on an e-learning website that requires that during quizzes, users must stay on the quiz for a minimum amount of time, even if they finish early, so that they are forced to check their work. Is there a way to set a timer on a quiz slide to do something like this?
When you say "users must stay on the quiz for a minimum amount of time" do you mean on an individual quiz slide? If that is the case, you could add a trigger to 'change state of submit button to disabled when timeline starts' and then another one to 'change state of submit button to normal when timeline reaches xx time' e.g. 20 seconds or whatever.
Welcome to the community. Hopefully Veronicas idea will help. You can look at the information here if yo are using Storyline 2, and here for Storyline 1. If you are using SL1, you may have to use the When timeline ends, and set the timeline to the length needed.
Sorry for the late reply. I've been a little busy with other projects. I'm actually working with a question bank, and I wanted to give users the ability to review all the questions at once before submitting, rather than one slide at a time.
For example, I have a 30 question quiz, which I want them to spend a total of 15 minutes on before being allowed to submit. I don't want to have a timer on each individual slide because some questions might be easy to answer in five seconds and restricting them to a 30 second timer would be a bit too much. I tried Veronica's suggestion at first, and while it works like a charm for each slide, I wanted to modify it so that only the final slide has a submit button that changes to "normal" after 15 minutes from when the quiz itself began. I already have the quiz set so that it will submit all the questions at once, so really I've just been trying to figure out how to put a tmer on top of that.
I assume I need to have a variable keeping track of time, but I'm not entirely sure how to do that.
Again, sorry for the delayed response. Thanks for the help!
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Hi John,
When you say "users must stay on the quiz for a minimum amount of time" do you mean on an individual quiz slide? If that is the case, you could add a trigger to 'change state of submit button to disabled when timeline starts' and then another one to 'change state of submit button to normal when timeline reaches xx time' e.g. 20 seconds or whatever.
Hope this helps!
Hello John!
Welcome to the community. Hopefully Veronicas idea will help. You can look at the information here if yo are using Storyline 2, and here for Storyline 1. If you are using SL1, you may have to use the When timeline ends, and set the timeline to the length needed.
Hello,
Sorry for the late reply. I've been a little busy with other projects. I'm actually working with a question bank, and I wanted to give users the ability to review all the questions at once before submitting, rather than one slide at a time.
For example, I have a 30 question quiz, which I want them to spend a total of 15 minutes on before being allowed to submit. I don't want to have a timer on each individual slide because some questions might be easy to answer in five seconds and restricting them to a 30 second timer would be a bit too much. I tried Veronica's suggestion at first, and while it works like a charm for each slide, I wanted to modify it so that only the final slide has a submit button that changes to "normal" after 15 minutes from when the quiz itself began. I already have the quiz set so that it will submit all the questions at once, so really I've just been trying to figure out how to put a tmer on top of that.
I assume I need to have a variable keeping track of time, but I'm not entirely sure how to do that.
Again, sorry for the delayed response. Thanks for the help!
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