Timed Quiz - Not recording all answers if time runs out

Apr 06, 2018

Hi, 

I have created a timed quiz using Storyline 2. However, the result slide only takes into account the question slides that have been viewed up to the point the quiz times out and gives the pass rate from this, even though the quiz still has multiple questions left to be answered. Therefor the student thinks they have passed, when infact they have failed. I want it to record the questions that the student hasn't accessed yet as wrong to give an accurate overall result. 

Any help would be appreciated. 

Thanks, Amy

17 Replies
Wendy Farmer

Hi Amy

according to this tutorial - this is what happens when the time is exceeded

If a learner doesn’t finish the quiz in time, they will get a message telling them they've exceeded the time limit. They can click the OK button and submit an answer for the question they’re currently on, but not for any of the remaining questions. Any unanswered questions will be marked incorrect.

Amy Conboy

Hi Wendy, 

Thank you for your response.

I had a look at the tutorial you sent.

This is exactly how i set my course up, so very confused that it doesn't work for me. Any unanswered questions have not been taken into account of the final score. My course is set up with 30 questions, i have only answered 18 of them before the timer runs out it gives my over passing rate from the 18 questions and it shows i passed, where as it should show i've failed as the pass rate is set up at 80%. The overall score should be marked out of 300 points with a passing rate of 240 points.

This occurs in preview mode, as well as when it is published online.

Please see screenshot attached. 

Thanks again, Amy 

Wendy Farmer

Hi Amy

It's working for me as expected. SL2 I set up 5 questions with a quiz timer for 1 minute.  Answered the first two questions correctly - let the timer count down - Time exceeded message displayed then results show fail

See Peek video

Can you share your .story file or even just the quiz section.

Are you starting the timer from first question slide or first slide?

Wendy Farmer

Hi Amy

I don't use the timer so I can't speak to whether this behaviour is normal or not.

I stopped short of answering all the questions when the timer ran out.

The total number of points possible is 300, the passing score is 80% of 300 which is 240 only if the user completes all 30 questions.

If they only complete a portion of them when the time exceeded message displays that is what is being recorded

eg If they only complete 28 of the 30 questions, the pass mark is being based on 28 x 8 = 224 so there are two questions that are not being counted.

Hopefully a staff member can chime in to say if this is expected behaviour or not.

Wendy Farmer

Hi Amy

As I said above, I'm not sure this is an issue - it may be the expected behaviour that it is only calculating passing score for the number of the questions answered.  If you don't get a response on the forum you may want to log a ticket with support just to confirm what should be happening.

Leslie McKerchie

Hi Christina,

This conversation is a bit dated and the users were using Storyline 2. 

If you're running into a similar issue, then with your permission, I'd like you to share your project file with our support engineers to investigate what's happening. You can share it privately by uploading it here. It will be deleted when troubleshooting is complete.

Lauren Connelly

Hi Ward!

I wanted to update this discussion to share that we aren't seeing this bug, unattempted questions in question banks are not included in the computation for cumulative score when timer expires in a timed quiz, in our latest version of Storyline 360 (Build 3.61.27106.0).

If others are running into this bug, please make sure you're using the latest version of Storyline 360. You can reach our team in this discussion or privately in a support case.