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Using a Pre-Test to Guide Learning
A pre-test can set the stage for your online training and give learners a preview of what's to come in the course. You may also want to use a pre-test to allow learners to bypass course content based on their score.
In this example, Trina created a next-steps lesson to give learners three options for how to proceed after completing the pre-test. She hid the sidebar menu and used a button stack block to design this eye-catching branching interaction.
Quiz: The Myths and Facts of Employee Engagement
Click here to read more about how she created this project in 5 steps.
Why and How I Created This Pre-Test in Rise 360
Now we'd love to hear from you! Tell us how you've used pre-tests in your Rise 360 courses, and share some tips for other designers who may want to try this in their next e-learning project!
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If anyone stumbles upon this like I did, this build isn't displaying content based on result - some responses seem to think it's doing something beyond what they may initially think Rise can do on the face of it. Essentially, this is not going to solve the problem of needing a branching solution based on the quiz result which is what I, and many others, need.
So my first point here is: I will add a voice to needing branching functionality in Rise 360 based on a quiz score.
As a second point, I will describe for those who stumble upon this post with what is going on in this build for those unaware:
- At least two lessons have been created in this course. One is the quiz and the second contains the buttons (by the looks of things it's 3 button stack blocks each with 1 button in and a bg colour chosen per block).
- Navigation has been turned off preventing the learner from being able to skip the quiz.
- The second lesson that contains the buttons, links out to specific content (either inside or external to the course).
- Each button block is sub-headed with a score-band, e.g. 0 - 50%.
- It is up to the learner to be honest and select the button that applies to them.
- If you scored 20%, nothing prevents you from selecting the 80-100% button.
This has a big issue with those who would choose to go down the route of "I scored 80%" route when they scored less than 50%. I'd like to sit here and rely on the honesty of others, but that is not always practical, especially in industries with huge legal recourse such as pharma.
Thanks for outlining this so clearly, SamBarnard-98a4, and for taking the time to explain what’s actually happening in the example course.
You’re right that the approach shown there doesn’t enforce routing based on quiz results. While it can look like branching at first glance, it relies on learners manually selecting a path after the quiz, which means there’s nothing preventing someone from choosing a score range that doesn’t match their results. As you noted, that’s especially problematic in regulated or high-risk environments where accuracy really matters.
The need you’re describing is for true quiz-based branching, where Rise can automatically route learners to the appropriate content based on their score, without relying on learner honesty. I’ve shared this feedback with our product team so they can better understand how important this distinction is and why the current example doesn’t meet that need.
Thank you for adding your voice here and helping clarify the gap between what’s being demonstrated and the functionality that many authors are looking for.
Hello, I'm also very interested in this. Could you please notify me when such a branching solution in Rise is implemented or let me know when approximately this can be expected?
Hello Kerstin,
Thank you for sharing your need for a pretest feature in Rise 360. We are still gathering votes for this request, and I've added your voice to the existing feature report.
I have no timeline to share, but we'll surely update this post once this is implemented, and you'll be among the first to know!
I'll add my vote to this request!
We also have a use case for the ability to test out. In it's simplest form, it would be great to provide a quiz that, if failed, launches the user into a full training and, if passed, marks that user as complete. To dig deeper (maybe as a second or third iteration of this feature) it would be great to be able to point users to certain course materials based on their initial quiz performance. For example, if I miss questions 1-5 related to topic A, I will be assigned training on topic A, and if I miss questions 6-10 on topic B, I will be assigned subsequent training on topic B.
Did anyone come up with a template/solution for this? I would like to have the option that Hanna mentioned. I think having that on some compliance courses would help learners engage knowing that if they can answer some of the questions they don't need to complete all the course.
Would love to seee this feature also - I am currently trying to build a quiz where the user has to reset and take it again if they score lower than 80%, and this would be ideal!
Will this feature be offered in Rise 360?
Barbara Garvin | Lead Organizational Change Management Analyst
Enterprise Transformation Office | Rice University
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We have a lot of use cases for a pre-test too- specifically one that links to the skill you need to work on, instead of an overall percentage score. So for example you seem to have great understanding of A and B but failed at understanding C and D, therefore we'll take you through some content about C and D.
Hello, can you explain a bit of how you were able to do that?
We have use cases for this feature as well.
We would like to use this Pre-Test both for "testing out" and as a way to assess the effectiveness of the course material on learning. If we can collect both pre-test and final test scores, we can see if learner scores improve after taking the course.
Hi Garvin!
Thanks for checking in! We appreciate the feedback on how the Pre-Test feature could benefit you when authoring in Rise 360!
I've included your voice in the Feature Report! We’ll update this discussion as soon as there is any news to share about this.
Any update on Rise Pre-Test feature? Would be really, really beneficial to be able to send the score of more than 1 quiz in Rise to LMS, similar to option in Storyline. Thank You! A timeline of when this feature might be implemented would be awesome also.
Thanks for chiming in, folks! There isn't any update yet on the Rise Pre-Test feature, as well as the feature of combining multiple quiz results. These aren't in Rise 360's roadmap either, but we'll keep this thread posted for any updates on these requests!
Pre-testing would be a great feature in Rise!
