Giving Learners Options

Hi Alan - 

Nope! Makes perfect sense. It's relatively easy to pull off but requires a little finesse to get stuff working OK. You can use either individual questions or question banks. The secret is setting up different results slides for each set of questions you want to track as your "tailoring assessment". In an old example I setup a couple of years back, I setup triggers to skip past the results slides at the end of each "section" so you didn't notice it. All I wanted to do was grab the score for how well the participant did for a section and move on. 

Will see if I can wrangle up that old example.

Steve

Found it. This is a really simple example. It's one way to do what you're looking to do:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19820702/sl_beta/test-out-by-section_UPD.story

You might notice that in this file there is a trigger to set the value of a results slide. You can't do that anymore. It's a remnant trigger from the SL1 beta.

Hi Alan, So what happens if the user takes more than 1 log-in to complete. They can "resume where they left off" but will this affect your design? There won't be a record of the slides and assessment they have already completed.

Cheers, Julie

Resume retains a record of slide visits, assessment results, states and variables when run locally or from an LMS. Under the player, you can make sure that always resume is turned on if that's the desired behavior.

Hi Steve, This is the part I am struggling with. Using Alan's example above. Let's say the learner chooses option 3 and finishes the assessment and needs to review 10 slides. The user then proceeds through 5 of the slides and then logs out. The learner then logs back-in after a certain amount of time. Yes the resume feature takes them back to the last slide they were on. But how can you tell the user that they only need to do 6-10 slides without the user taking the assessment again? 

You imply that I can pull that information from..."Resume retains a record of slide visits, assessment results, states and variables when run locally or from an LMS"...to avoid having the user take the assessment over again. How is this done?

Thanks for your help! Julie

When using a tailoring assessment and sections based on topic objectives, I'll make the navigation flow return to the main menu. So let's say you have four sections:

• A (7 slides)
• B (5 slides)
• C (9 slides)
• D (4 slides)

The participant scores mastery for A and B but needs to complete C and D. They pick C and get 6 slides in and quit. When they return, all of the variables indicating section mastery are retained and they are presented with slide 6 of section C. Advancing through that section they are returned to the menu. The menu shows section A, B, and C complete. Something like this ugly prototype from the storyline source attached above.

You could also add an indicator to the screen, like filled / empty circles to indicate sections have been completed / not completed. Illustrated in a slightly less ugly mockup.