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Pre-assessment trackable by LMS in a branched course?
Hi everyone. Here's our plan: We want to create a chain of short microlearning courses that each cover one specific topic of our company strategy. Learners, however, only have to take a course if t...
The attached file demonstrates a method that I think will work as desired.
Insert a Results slide after each pretest with the appropriate passing score. Indicate in the Quiz settings that it is a Knowledge Check.
For a Knowledge Check the program will show the results to the learner. However, it won't submit them to the LMS, so passing this test won't be tracked as completing the course.
Program the pretest Results slide so the learner has to go through the "microlearning" if they fail. Here's a simple way to do that:
- In Slide Properties, remove the Player's Next button.
- On the Failure layer, add a button that jumps to the microlearning (in my demo, it's the next slide).
- On the Success layer, add a button that jumps to the next pretest (in my demo, it's the next scene).
Another option would be edit the Next trigger with a condition that checks whether the learner passed, so it jumps to the next slide if they didn't pass, else it jumps to the next pretest.
After the final microlearning, insert a Results slide that scores the questions in all of the pretests. Indicate that it is the Final Assessment. And make the passing score 0% to ensure the course will be marked as complete even if the learner fails the pretests.
My demo only has 2 sections, but the method should work for any number of sections.
Another option:
Don't use standard Results slides for the pretests. Instead, use one or more variables to track whether the user achieved a passing score.
For example, if passing requires 100%, use a T/F variable to track whether they have to take the microlearning (that is, track if any question is answered correctly). Have a trigger on each question that changes that variable to True if the answer is wrong.
- That could happen when the Incorrect layer's timeline starts if you're showing feedback.
- Otherwise, add a trigger to the Submit button (before the trigger that submits the question) with a condition so it only changes the variable if the correct answer does not equal Selected.
Then use a final Results slide as described above.
JudyNolletTHANK YOU SO MUCH! I cant really grasp your second suggested solution but the demo works great. Only downside is that there will ultimately only be ONE completion score. Meaning learners have to go through ALL branchings before getting to the final 'completed' slide, correct? Management is once again asking about tracking PRESCORES... Is there no way to make that happen? Thank you again
I set up the demo based on my understanding of what you wanted.
- The learners must take each pretest before they get to the final Results/completion slide.
- If they pass a pretest, they can jump directly to the next pretest. If not, they must go though the associated content before they get to the next pretest.
- The final Results slide will score and submit the questions in all of the pretests.
Yes, the data would be submitted as if it were one big test. If you only look at the score, there's no way to tell what the learner got on each pretest. Well, unless they scored 0% (none correct) or 100% (all correct).
However, SL submits info about each question. That data could be reviewed to determine the results for each pretest.
- Here's more info about the submitted data: https://access.articulate.com/support/article/quiz-data-sent-to-an-lms-in-articulate-storyline
- How you pull the data depends on the LMS.
If that's too much work, the alternative would be to do separate courses for each topic.
JudyNolletWe are indeed going with what you proposed, Judy. Your help is greatly appreciated. The first time I uploaded the course into our LMS, however, we didn't get ANY results ( not showing that we passed or didnt pass or that we even attended!). Any idea why this could be? JHauglie - Maybe you can an idea as you also seem to be using SUccessFactors SUccessMap Learning just like us?
I once worked with a client whose LMS (for some unknown reason) didn't register the submitted data unless the user went to another slide after the Results slide. So we always ensured they'd do that by including a "Send your score to the LMS" button on the Result slide that jumped to a final summary slide.
However, that was long ago. And I'm not an LMS expert. In other words, I really can't say.
I suggest you test the course in the SCORM CLOUD. If it works there, then at least you know the problem is with SuccessMap.
