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Question Banks in Storyline 360
Hello Heroes!
Our team has been asked to create an assessment based on a total of 274 questions (!)
We'll be importing an Excel spreadsheet of questions into Storyline 360 to create one (or more) question banks. Although we have plenty of experience w/ Storyline. this is our first time working with question banks.
Here are our questions:
- In your experience, is it easier/better/faster to create 1 or multiple question banks? (In our case, there would only be 2 if we choose to create multiple banks). As I see it, 1 bank keeps everything together, but creating the draws from such a large list of questions could be tedious and might be prone to (my) human error.
- Is it possible to import multiple Excel spreadsheets, or just one? We currently have questions separated by topic, so we thought about importing 2 separate lists. The only info I've found close to this question says, "Only questions in the first worksheet (tab) of your Excel workbook will be imported. Additional worksheets will be ignored."
Thanks!
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Hi KeithShull_VO question banks are really useful if you want to group questions into topics, but are essential when you want to display different questions on different attempts. In order to do that, you may need to break question up into different groups. Here's a use case:
I have 40 questions
The 40 questions can be grouped into 10 different topics (4 questions per topic)
I present 10 questions in the assessment (1 question from each topic)
In this scenario, I would create 10 question banks (one for each topic), draw 1, random, each containing 4 questions on the topic. Each time a user attempts the quiz, a randomly selected question would be taken from each of the 10 question banks.
This is the kind of stuff that determines your question banks. Another scenario may be that one bank is draw 1 question randomly from 4, whilst another bank may have 4 mandatory question and all 4 are always presented to the user.
I hope this helps determine the use of banks.
I haven't done anything with importing and so will have to let somebody else chime in.