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FaffieKhan's avatar
FaffieKhan
Community Member
3 years ago

trigger to fail exam after three clicks/attempts

Hello.

I'm setting up an exam which involves hotspots and areas where they have to enter information.

I'm trying to work out whether to create a freeform question quiz OR something game-like with a straightforward pass/fail if you get to/don't get to the end, under timed conditions.

Question 1 - Is it possible to have them automatically fail/stop them moving onto the next slide, if they have failed three times on a question slide?

Question 2 - Is it possible to create a trigger on a non-question slide that displays an error message after three wrong clicks and stops you from progressing?

Question 3 - I know we can set timers for quizzes but what if I want a timer that stops you from making further progress if you have run out of time. Is it possible?

 

 

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  • JoseTansengco's avatar
    JoseTansengco
    Staff
    3 years ago

    Hi Faffie, 

    Thanks for reaching out! Allow me to address your inquiries individually. 

    Question 1: 

    Yes, you can definitely do this! You can use a combination of the 'Complete course trigger' along with increasing the number of attempts in your quiz to fail a learner if they fail to get the correct answer to a question after 3 attempts. 

    Attempts: 

    Fail Trigger in the incorrect layer of a slide: 

    Question 2:

    A clarification on this one, if the slide is a non-question slide, how would you define what a wrong click is? Is it by defining a correct click area in the slide? If so, you should be able to accomplish this by using a traditional variable and trigger setup. You can do something like this on the slide: 

    And then make a layer appear once the value of your control variable exceeds 3. 

    Question 3: 

    I'm not sure I understood this one clearly, sorry. But any additional timers apart from the quiz timer is not an available feature in Storyline 360. This sounds like it would make for a great feature to have! I’ll be happy to pass your thoughts on to our product team, but you can also feel free to detail them more through a feature request!

  • FaffieKhan's avatar
    FaffieKhan
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Dear Joe,

    What a dream of an answer.

    I really appreciate the time and thought you have put into this. 

    Re question 2: yes a wrong area would be outside of the rectangle, for example. So, just to make sure I understand fully, 'test' would be a number variable with the default value of 0. 

    I would need to set up a second variable to show the error message (the new layer).

     

    When the layer 'error message' appears, how would you suggest that I stop them from progressing? Hide the next button? If you have a better solution, I would really appreciate it.

    As per your suggestion, I have submitted a feature request but I would appreciate it if you could too.

    Thank you.

  • JoseTansengco's avatar
    JoseTansengco
    Staff
    3 years ago

    Hi Faffie,

    Yes, 'test' in this case can be any numerical variable with a default value of 0. When the 'error message' layer appears, you can disable the navigation buttons completely and then add a button to exit the course, signifying that they can no longer continue.