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Deducting points on multiple attempt questions
I have a Storyline 360 Practical Exam that I am building. I am having an issue with the score on the results slide not being accurate to how I have it set. Please see example outline of my issue below.
- Questions with score by choice available have 3 choices.
- Questions set to 3 attempts.
- Correct answers set to 3 points.
- Incorrect answers set to -1 point.
- Points total on results slide are still being calculated as though the answer was correct on the first try and points are not being deducted for each attempt.
I even tried setting variables and triggers based on suggestion from copilot and it is not working. Can someone please help me figure out how to achieve this? Essentially if someone has 3 attempts to answer a question and they get a try again feedback it should be deducting 1 point for each attempt. If they get incorrect feedback it should award 0 points for the question. If correct on the first try it should award 3 points. So if I answered a question incorrect on the 1st try and correct on the 2nd try then I would get 2 points for that question and not 3. But this is not how it is being calculated in storyline. Thank you in advance!
-Toni W.
Storyline assigns the score for a score-by-choice question based on the amount entered in the Points column for whatever the final answer is.
If you want to deduct points for extra attempts, I think you'd need to set up a disguised question slide. In other words, the user would click buttons that aren't the official responses. Submitting those answers would trigger the selection of the appropriate official, hidden response.
This projects demonstrates and explains how to give partial credit for a Multiple Response question. That's not exactly what you're doing, but it might help you understand what I'm suggesting. DEMO: Giving Partial Credit on Multiple-Response Questions | Review 360
Thank you for sending this Judy. I am wondering if I can add a trigger to the incorrect choices that would deduct a point from the built in ScorePoints variable when selected. Have you heard of this?
Or even adding a trigger to the try again feedback layer that would do the same thing.
You can't change the built-in scoring variables with an "adjust variable" trigger.
I've seen replies saying that's possible with JavaScript, but I can't help with that.
Personally, neither the extra programming nor the JavaScript seems worth the time and effort.
After all, if the user gets 0 points because they didn't answer correctly until the 3rd attempt, then they might fail the quiz.
- If the program allows them to Retry the entire quiz, then that doesn't matter. But you won't know how many attempts they required anyway.
- If they can't Retry the quiz, then what?
