Numbering Quiz Questions in Storyline

Thanks Marta for sharing your example here! If you'd like to see new feature in Storyline please share your thoughts with our product development team by submitting it as a feature request. 

Marta,

You access the review/retry buttons on the results slide, which is separate from the quiz slide. On the review slide, you should be able to click on each of the review and retry buttons. Then add a trigger to that button.

Pam

Thank you to everyone for their ideas and feedback in this thread. It has been a great help as I try to number questions in one of my projects.

Unfortunately, I am still encountering what seems to be a random numbering issue when re-taking the quiz whereby the question numbering jumps at random (e.g. 1 of 10, 2 of 10, 5 of 10, etc.).

A bit of background:

- Assessment is 10 questions (pulled from a bank of 30)

- Numbering variable (QuestNumber) has been added to each question slide as "%QuestNumber%"

- QuestNumber increases by 1 when each slide timeline starts

- Total number of questions is set at 10 (i.e. each slide reads:  Question %QuestNumber% of 10)

- Numbering works fine the first time the user takes the course

- When re-taking the assessment after failing the first attempt, the numbering is sometimes correct/sometimes not. There seems to be no reason behind why the numbering skips. It will sometimes start at 2 of 10, and other times will jump at random  (e.g. from 5 of 10 to 7 of 10).

- There is a trigger to reset the QuestNumber variable to 0 when users click Retake Quiz after failing

- In my limited testing, if I don't reset the QuestNumber variable then it never skips a number (of course, it also reads as 11 of 10 up to 20 of 10). This is not an option, but I found it interesting in my tests.

I would appreciate any feedback on my issue, as I have not been able to resolve it. Perhaps I am missing something? If it would help, I will create a blank version of the course to upload for review.

Regards,

Chris

Hi Chris, try resetting each question to "initial state" when revisiting.  I found this helped me. 

Hi Chris,

As Joe mentioned, I'd check the revisiting properties for your individual slides, and set the revisit to "reset to initial state" instead of automatically decide or resume saved state. If you'd still having difficulty a sample file would help us determine if there was anything else that occurred. 

Thank you for the tip, Joe. I applied this change, and while it seems to have stopped the question numbering from jumping throughout the assessment it still often starts at Question 2 of 10 (instead of 1 of 10) when re-taking the quiz.

Unfortunately, given our time constraints we really cannot devote more time to determining the root cause of this issue so we chose to remove the question numbers from the assessment.

Thank you for your help in attempting to resolve this issue.

Hello everyone,

This is my first post.  I would just like to say thank you to all for the great info in this thread.  It has helped me immensely.

@Chris - I would just like to say, I had the same issue with the number skipping.  A colleague suggested that I check for updates of Storyline.  I did, ran the update and that seems to have fixed the issue.   I couldn't believe it was something that simple.

@Joe - I tried setting the revisit to "reset to initial state", but all that did was cause the answers to not display when I reviewed the quiz.  It did show me what the correct answers were but not the answers I had selected.  For note, all of my questions are multiple choice or true/false.

Again, thanks for this thread and I hope that this post helps.

Steve

Hey everyone,

The knowledge sharing here is great and people have great minds &I deas!

I would like to share with you my solution for the "Question bank numbering" issue:

Please see the attached file.

Good luck!

Short summary:

1. I've added a slide trigger that sets a value of the variable Page to 1.

So- when clicking "Next" the variable will increase.

2. Done the opposite- when clicking the "Previous" button- the variable will decrease.

So- now you have a full control on the numbering.

But- DO NOT FORGET! when reviewing the quiz after answering the numbering variable will still be active.

So- when ending the quiz set a trigger (on the "Review quiz" button) that will reset to zero the variable.

That will make it.

Thanks,

Danielle.

Hi everyone, this thread has been incredibly useful to me. I've read it thoroughly and have the question numbering working perfectly, with one exception. For various reasons, I use the Menu in my tests to list each question. The incremental variable works great when a user is advancing linearly, but as soon as they click a question out of order (skipping ahead or going back to a previous question), the numbering gets out of whack.

E.g., From question 5, I go back to revisit question 2, which is now labeled as question 6 because of the incremented variable. Then the whole rest of the test is off. Does anyone have any solutions for this? Thanks!

Nancy-Does this work with a linear posttest? I have 12 questions that I want the leaner to take straight through, how would I count this?