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zamond1
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2 days ago

Show LMS aggregate data on results slide?

I have a free-form drag-and-drop activity on a slide. There are 5 objects that users can drag to 5 vertically stacked slots, labeled from "favorite" at the top to "least favorite" at the bottom. The end result of the interaction is a true free-form ranking activity. There are no right or wrong answers. (Although I was required to pair each object to a "correct" drag zone when creating the slide.)

A few questions. It seems that, after submitting the interaction on the free-form question slide, I will also need a "results" slide, that will submit the results to an LMS. I'll need to customize the results slide.

What I want to show on the customized results slide is, on the left, a recap of what the user's ranked choices were, and on the right, by position (1-5), what the most common answer for each position was. So, for instance:

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POSITION      USER'S RANKINGS          MOST COMMON

topmost              Pizza                                 Burger

next                     Tacos                                Tacos

next                     Burger                              Pizza

next                     Gyro                                 Gyro

bottom                Hot Dog                           Hot Dog

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FIRST: How would one show the recap of what the user's selections were?

SECOND: Can the LMS calculate, by position, the most common response?

THIRD: How do I pull that data back in from the LMS and display it on the results slide?

Is what I'm asking even possible? If so, does it need require a custom JavaScript solution?

Thanks in advance!

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  • Silverfire's avatar
    Silverfire
    Community Member
    2 hours ago

    1) Doing a recap on a separate slide isn't necessary -- you can just use the results layer to reshow the choices, then list the most common choices side-by-side.

    2-3) The LMS is not going to do any calculating for you. It receives the data you send once the course is complete, and that's the extent of its functionality (as far as I know -- I've never heard of an LMS with this functionality). 

    You'd have to determine what were the most common responses ahead of time and list them in your course manually. 

    If you wanted to not use the results layer and instead use a different slide, then you'd have to preserve the user's choices. One way of doing this is setting a variable for each item that is dropped on each target. Then by evaluating those variables, you'll know which order the drag items are in. It'd be messy.