Prevent a question from be randomly selected twice from a question

Glad this worked for you Helena! 

Hi everyone.

Here's a follow-up question to Pat's solution:

I have a bank of 6 questions (A,B,C,D,E & F).

If the user has already seen "Question A", the "A" slide jumps to the "B" slide (which contains Question B)

If the user has already seen "Question B", the "B" slide jumps to the "C" slide (which contains Question C)

etc.

What trigger did you create for the *last* slide in your question bank?

Hi Alex,

This thread is a bit older, and I'm not certain who is subscribed still. I'm not clear if I'm following your set up - but your thought is if the user has already seen Question F would they have then seen all the questions? Or would that just loop back to A? 

Hi Ashley,

My apologies if I’m being unclear!  I think I over-simplified my problem too much in my previous post. I’m re-opening this thread since there may be a problem with Pat’s proposed solution (although I may be misreading Pat’s proposed solution too!) …but the problem is this: I have an Exam for students. The Exam consists of 3 quiz questions that are randomly pulled from a bank of 12 possible questions (“A” to “L”).  

Here are the rules for the Exam:  

Rule 1 - The student is allowed to take the exam twice (at most).

Rule 2: the student is never allowed to be presented with a question s/he has seen on their first attempt.

Let’s say that on the first try, the student is presented with Questions “A” “I” & “L” (selected at random by Storyline). Let’s then suppose that the user fails. He/She is then allowed to re-take the Exam one last time.

Let’s then say that on the second attempt, the user is presented with “A”, “E” and “L”. The solution for “A”? Have Storyline re-direct a student to the next question ( “B” ) automatically. This works well for all questions …except for “L” (the last quiz page in the question bank). On the student’s second attempt, I can’t re-direct the student from “L” to the next question (since it doesn’t exist). How should I handle quiz "L"? Am I missing something when I read Pat’s solution?

Hi Alex,

No worries - it's a long solution and an involved one! So what happens if the user sees A and then B on the first attempt, on the second attempt they'll automatically jump to C? But then they'd only have one question vs. the two expected? It's definitely a custom design set up (I'm on the support side of the house) so I may defer to the community for other recommendations. Also, if you've got a working sample for everything except "L" can you share that here and that way we could play with what you've got set up? 

I'd be grateful for any ideas! Here is my Storyline file (the content has been stripped out). 

Hi all. Just wondering if this issue is still on the latest version on Storyline2? If so, I'll send in a feature request. "Random" should mean random, not repeat. Thanks.

After days of tearing my hair out, I wish I never embarked on using the branching option in Storyline 2. There appears to be no way to guarantee questions will not be repeated. If the order is locked, Storyline takes the first question from the locked selection and plays it over and over. The only way to stop it is by not randomising the questions in the bank and put a different question at the top of each draw slide...to which I wonder why not just have the actual question slide rather than having banks at all?

This feature causes more frustration than value. I suggest removing this feature until it is functional. What quiz taker expects to reattempt a quiz question several times in one sitting?!

Hi Steven and Matt,

If you're revisiting the question bank slide and it's going to redraw them from the bank and there isn't a way to stop the questions the user has already seen from reappearing on a second attempt. There currently isnt a way to change this, and if you've locked a question to the top of the bank that one will reappear each time. 

Appreciate the quick response Ashley. I find that revisiting a question bank slide will show the same question that was shown on that slide originally (not a new question). If you create additional question bank slides drawing from the same bank of questions, there is a high chance that there will be repeat questions.

I have tried locking the order on the question bank slide (not locking a slide to top), but that shows the question at the top over and over. I'm open to suggestion if I'm using the question bank function incorrectly, but I've tried so many different things and read everything I can find on question banks in this and other forums and haven't been able to come up with a solution to the repeating question issue other than the workaround that defeats the purpose of question banks that I mentioned in the post prior. Appreciate any guidance you can provide.

The real mystery to me is how locking the slides anywhere other than the to the top works. It certainly hasn't behaved as I expected it would. I can't work out what the purpose of them are at all!