Allowing user to miss a question in a quiz?

Hi Sarah,

I believe to customize the submit button you need to remove the default one and create your own.

To delete the default from multiple slides

1. Go into Story View
2. Select all the slides
3. Click the "Submit"check box to remove the X.

I threw something together really quickly, and what I did while here was also to:

• Click the "next" check box to insert an X
  This is so the Learner can skip this question and keep moving along.

When you insert you own button, add the "submit interaction to it"

Action: Submit Interaction

Interaction: This would be T/F, Multiple Choice, etc.

When: User Clicks

Object: This would be your newly created submit button

I set the quiz up so the Menu is displayed. In this way, Learners can go back to any slide they'd previously skipped.

So perhaps this will get you started, and others will chime in.

Hi Rebecca

Thanks for that. I'll have a look at that today. I was convinced I'd just missed doing something within the standard stuff, but it seems not.

Thanks for your help.

You can reprogram the submit button on any screen as well. Have it jump to next slide instead of submit question. If you want to skip grading the question, you can exclude it from your results in the results slide wizard by deselecting the slide.

Hi Steve

'mmmn, that's certainly interesting to know and I didn't realise that and can think of some uses for it, thank you.

I guess what I had in mind was something similar to a paper test where you flick thru and answer the easy ones, maybe go back and try the ones you ignored again, or just leave them as ignored (i.e. wrong). When you do a paper test you aren't forced to write anything. Perhaps I'll add "haven't got a clue" as one of the options when I can and set a variable to pick that up and then I can play with that in different ways....

cheers

Hey Sarah, you might want to check out this tutorial to see if it gives you the behavior that you're looking for. It involves replacing the Submit button with Prev/Next buttons, so that learners can skip forward or back up to answer (or not answer) any question. When they get to the result slide, Storyline evaluates their answers, and unanswered questions are considered incorrect. What some course designers like to do is add a little confirmation screen just before the result slide, to confirm that the learner really is finished...that way they can go back and review or change their answers before they proceed to the result slide.

Hi Jeanette

Yep, that's good that works fine. I hadn't thought to leave the scoring till the end so was fighting getting it on each question, but actually this is fine and means I can drop in a revision option when I have something useful available. And yes I now have the 'are you really done' slide in, thanks for that tip.

Admit I'm still mystified where the formatting for the 'review' bit is hidden away when it shows whether each question was right/wrong. I know I can format the individual question feedback pop up and the results slides layers, but haven't found that bit yet.....

Steve, thanks for the information re changing the submit button trigger to jump to the next slide. Seems I'm always forgetting something!

Jeanette, tx, too, for those tutorials. I'm sure I've been through some of them. Just can't hold it all in my head.

Sarah, tx for the questions. And, yes, how does one modify what appears on the "review slides"?

Just wondering out loud if something as simple as adding a skip question button (with a trigger on it to the next slide) .  Gives the learner a clear choice.  Works when questions are presented in random order and goes to the results screen at the end.

That's a nice idea, Gerry!

Sarah & Becky - you had asked about how to customize what appears to the learner when they review their quiz. Here's a quick look at that: 

Thanks Gerry. I think I must be having a dim day as I started with a skip button but must have had a glitch in it somewhere as if questions were skipped then last one didn't take you on to the results slide. But it seems to work fine now either way. But yes, I guess it's time I stopped being lazy and dropped using the player built in buttons