Pretest to allow learner to opt out of taking the course

Jun 25, 2014

Can anyone tell me the best way to create an option that would allow the learner to bypass a course if they pass some sort of pretest? 

6 Replies
Daniel Brigham

Hi, Jerry: a simple way to do this is to give the learner the option to skip all the material and go right to the test/assessment. If they can pass that, they shouldn't have to sit through the material.

Slide 1: "Welcome to course on ..."

Slide 2: "Feel like you already know X material? Go directly to the test and find out..." (create link to test) If they pass, that score is reported to LMS, if you are using one.

Jerry Woodrow

Thanks Daniel -

The challenge I am facing is that the final knowledge check is set up so the learner can take the quiz until they get a passing score after they have gone through the content. It is recorded in an LMS once they have passed. What I need is a way to have a sort of stand-alone test (with two chances to pass), and if they pass they can opt out. If not I need to some how branch it back to the course for them to go through. 

Steve Flowers

Hey Jerry - 

There's a simple way to tackle this with some menu branching logic and a single results slide.

There's another way if you'd like to test for mastery by objective and give a second chance at unmastered objectives. I've built a couple of different tailoring mechanisms in Storyline. Take a look at this example. 

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

This one adds question banks for each objective. The menu tracks whether the user has passed a particular objective. You could use the same banks for a post test if you want to use the exact same questions. Since you're likely using more than one results slide for this more complicated setup, you'd need to use JavaScript to trigger completion in the LMS.

Ralf  Baum

Would it be an option to create a pretest with checkboxes and variables?

e.g. you make a multiple choice test with 3 objekts to select.

then you create seperate variables and add them to the objects to choose. (Important is here that the trigger condition is ->Shapes ->Checkbox 1 > State is Equal to ->Selected. In this procedure it is also important to set the other states to -> unequal -> selected

Then on your pretest result slide you insert a trigger aligned to the timeline with condition "if variable > x jump to slide X (where the normal content starts). "if variable smaller than x jump to Slide 1"

Laura M

If I'm understanding correctly, the issue is going to be that you can't have the LMS track more than one quiz within a course. My initial thought was to have the quiz in there twice. If someone wants to take a stab at testing out, they branch to the version that only allows you two chances to pass. If they opt to take the entire course, they wind up at the quiz that allows unlimited chances to pass. 

Are you opposed to having a stand-alone test out quiz option that people can choose to take and if they fail, they would be required to register and take the full course? The fail results slide could just explain this. I know it's not the prettiest solution. We usually have our final assessments only allow for two chances to pass, otherwise you would be reassigned the course. In that case, you could just use the suggestion Daniel provided above.

I keep trying to use these types of situations to push for the purchase of Storyline here, but it hasn't happened yet.

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