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Letting the learner choose quiz questions
My course features 21 procedures, which is a lot for a learner to grasp in one sitting. Of these, 8 are mandatory, and I have created sequence drag-and-drop activities for them. For the remaining 13, I want the learner to choose any two, and score them on a minimum of 10 quiz slides. I have recently discovered the "only score viewed questions" feature on the Results slide. However, I can see how a clever learner can use the Menu to skip even the mandatory questions and get away with answering just one. (I'm leaving the Menu open so they can more easily revisit.) Any ideas on how to manage giving the learner a choice of quiz questions in this scenario?
The only way would be to build a custom menu slide, probably best deployed as a lightbox, and show that as your menu instead of the built-in one.
I still don't see an easy way to have them quickly revisit already completed quizzes though. You might have a trigger to set a variable at the end of each quiz "section" that would be read every time the lightbox menu is shown to turn visibility on/off for every section in the course, but that seems like over-engineering to me.
Hopefully that's some food for thought at least.
Hi Scott, thanks for the good thoughts! I should have mentioned that this Procedures sections is one of four, so I need the built-in menu for the rest of the course. But the special menu is a great idea.
I've divided this section into two parts, the mandatory and the optional. At the end of the mandatory, I have set up a variable to allow the learner to access a special menu (on completion of all 8) that lists the remaining optional 13, which I've hidden from the built-in menu.
I've also hidden the continue button on the menu until they complete two more procedures (using a numeric variable) after which they can proceed to the Results page (or do even more procedures, ha ha ha).
Looks like it'll work, but I have to test it on real people. It's leaning towards being overbuilt, so I welcome any further comments.
