Your countdown was really amazing but I found another way to set my questions to 10 seconds.
I set the slide duration to 10 seconds and then added a player trigger saying "Show layer TIME OUT when timeline ends". On my layer TIME OUT there is a message saying that the 10 seconds are over and a "next question" button to go to the next question.
The student does not need to see the countdown and know they have 10 seconds to answer each question of the first section so it was easier for me to set it this way.
Thanks again for your help! I am sure the countdown will be really useful to me on another project.
I wanted to reply, since it looks like Miriam's post was over a year ago, and I'm not sure she subscribes to the thread. I would assume it does record it as incorrect in the scoring. To do any different would likely involve setting up some variables as to how it should be reported if timed out.
So, thought I'd follow up with a "real world" test. I created a 2-question T/F test and used Myriam's "time's up" layer. I waited ten seconds and didn't answer the question - answered the 2nd question correctly, and got a score of 50%.
So, yes this works, BUT I have another comment. The built-in Submit button is still active on the "time's up" layer as are the T/F option buttons. At least that was my experience.
So, I'd say that in order for this to work so Learners canNOT answer after the time is up you'd have to:
BASE LAYER
Create your own submit button
Copy the Submit interaction trigger from the trigger panel onto that button
Delete the original trigger
TIMES UP LAYER
Hide the Base Layer newly created submit button
Either hide the True/False answers OR
Place a shape over the option buttons. This could be a transparent shape if you'd like. This way Learners can't click to answer.
That's what I found, in any case! Back to work. Ciao!
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I built a countdown timer a while back you could build this onto each question. Or have a results slide for each question and set a timer
Hi Phil,
Can you tell me how you built that countdown timer? Could I set it to go automaticly on next question when it reaches 0?
Hear is a link to a screenr https://player.vimeo.com/video/204931923
There is a link on here to the forum post with the file prebuilt.
Should be simple to set it to 10 seconds, and then get it to ump slides when it hits 0
Thank you!
Hello,
Your countdown was really amazing but I found another way to set my questions to 10 seconds.
I set the slide duration to 10 seconds and then added a player trigger saying "Show layer TIME OUT when timeline ends". On my layer TIME OUT there is a message saying that the 10 seconds are over and a "next question" button to go to the next question.
The student does not need to see the countdown and know they have 10 seconds to answer each question of the first section so it was easier for me to set it this way.
Thanks again for your help! I am sure the countdown will be really useful to me on another project.
Myriam,
So does that question that is skipped record as incorrect in the scoring?
Hi Ari,
I wanted to reply, since it looks like Miriam's post was over a year ago, and I'm not sure she subscribes to the thread. I would assume it does record it as incorrect in the scoring. To do any different would likely involve setting up some variables as to how it should be reported if timed out.
So, thought I'd follow up with a "real world" test. I created a 2-question T/F test and used Myriam's "time's up" layer. I waited ten seconds and didn't answer the question - answered the 2nd question correctly, and got a score of 50%.
So, yes this works, BUT I have another comment. The built-in Submit button is still active on the "time's up" layer as are the T/F option buttons. At least that was my experience.
So, I'd say that in order for this to work so Learners canNOT answer after the time is up you'd have to:
BASE LAYER
TIMES UP LAYER
That's what I found, in any case! Back to work. Ciao!
Thanks Rebecca!
Ari - let us know if you need anything else!
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