I have a question bank set up to draw 10 questions from a pool of 20. Is there a way I can get the screen to display a question number, so learners know how far they have progressed?

Hi Shanti, You can achieve this by using a number variable and adding a trigger to each question slide to add 1 to this variable when the timeline of the question slide begins - you will also need to add a text box to each question slide that includes a reference to the variable so variable value is displayed on screen. In the attached example, I have 7 questions in a QB and I am randomly drawing 5 from it. When you preview the attached, you will see that the question number at the bottom of each question slide always goes up in sequence. I have also added a further trigger to the retry button on the results slide that changes the variable back to 0 when the user clicks it - this will ensure that the question numbers start from 1 again when further attempts are made. I hope this helps. Antony

Thanks Antony, that was really helpful. Appreciate it. I'm going to give it a try today and see how it goes. Shanti

Thanks Ashley. I could write the trigger in the Master Layout. However, this wont work when I have enabled Menu because then the user will navigate to questions out of any order. So I am still looking for a graceful solution. I think, just like a timer, this is a basic feature of an assessment test (i.e. providing current question number vs total questions). Its disappointing to learn there is no graceful way to accomplish this. I noticed that in the question bank each slide is given a number, which i cant change. See the image for Q1.1. This number is properly generated as I change the sequence of the questions in the bank. I am assume this number must be stored inside the storyline environment. Can we somehow access this system information?

HI Ian, I just happened to see a post that LOOKS like the "poster" was having a similar problem to yours (of course looks can be deceiving) and there was an "odd" solution. Apologies if these things are not the same at all!

Hi Bridget! This thread is a bit dated, but here is the file if you needed it.

Question bank - numbering questions | Articulate

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LeanneStegman
Community Member
3 years ago
This does not work well. Because upon review of correct/incorrect answers the number count will continue to increase.
AlexandruConsta
Community Member
2 years ago
Is there a modern solution to this problem? It is 2024 and things have changed but I can't find a way to make it so that I gat something that says "question x of y" at the bottom of the page and that would reset if they were to retry the quiz. Using the player to number the questions is not an option either. I don't want a menu to show.
- Nick
  Community Member
  8 months ago
  If you are still subed to this! A solution I have been using is to have the question bank it it's own scene and use the %SCENE.SLIDENUMBER% and %SCENE.TOTALSLIDES%. This gives you an auto-generated number.
  
  Only issue I have come across is, I am now skipping question banks depending on a pre-assessment, and it still totals the question bank in the scene that's not used.
PhilMayor
Super Hero
2 years ago
The example posted by Steve still works, nothing has changed in Storyline to make this easier.

You can use if for review by setting a variable for each question that is populated by the question number variable only if it is initially 0

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Question bank - numbering questions

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