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Storyline 360: Placement Test Template

AllisonLaMotte's avatar
6 years ago

When you’re delivering a course to a group of learners with vastly different knowledge levels or skill sets, one way to adapt the course content to their specific needs is by having them take a placement test before starting the course. That way, advanced learners can skip over the basic stuff they already know and get right into the advanced topics, and newbies can get the fundamentals they need before diving into more complex concepts.

Click here to view this project in action.

This Storyline 360 template includes five base questions and two tiebreaker questions. All that’s left to do is pop in your own content and you’ll be all set!

If you like the fonts used in this template, click here to download them for free:

Enjoy!

 

Published 6 years ago
Version 1.0
  • Hi Allison, great format and love the design. I did notice that the correct response corresponds with the choice for someone with little to no understanding. I was expecting it to be the the other way around. Am I missing something?
    • AllisonLaMotte's avatar
      AllisonLaMotte
      Staff
      Hi Jenna,
      Since I don't know which responses you chose, I'm not sure if there's actually something wrong here or not. Can you do a screencast of you going through the course?
      • AllisonLaMotte's avatar
        AllisonLaMotte
        Staff
        Lucy explained what's going on below, so I'll fix that. Thanks for letting me know! :)
  • Hi, Allison, thanks for sharing. I'm with Jenna - the "correct" feedback is always for the "beginner" person. I would have thought the "beginner" would receive different feedback.

    After the assessment results are tallied, how would you modify the course for each level of competency? Would you have a variable that is set to true if the assessment score was X or greater that would enable the menu for advanced students and not for beginners (so they'd have to navigate through all of the content? This is something I'm very interested in trying. I know that all level of learners would need to take the same ending assessment at the end for an LMS to record pass or fail, so I'm curious how you cater the course to the different learners after taking the prelim assessment.
    • JamesWashok's avatar
      JamesWashok
      Community Member
      For one of my simulator technician training series (EPIC Avionics), we had to test the candidates prior to their entrance into the program. There were a series of questions covering various topics and the SMEs and I had a long conversation on tracking and passing.

      What we came up with was, the techs needed to answer ALL Level 3 questions, 4/6 Level 2 questions, and 5/10 Level 3 questions. That required creating and manipulating a set of variables for L1, L2, and L3 questions each with "points" assigned (L1=1, L2=2, and L3=3). Results were calculated using a raw score as well meeting the objectives of the L1, L2, and L3 question answering requirements.

      It was a lot of work, but in the end, it provided a nice assessment of the candidate's overall knowledge of the subject. In subsequent modules with this group, we then provided "test out" options where an initial assessment was provided. If the candidate scored XX% or above, they skipped the training; if they scored between XX% and XX%, they took a variable-produced option of the course, and if they failed the assessment, then the course automatically took them through then entire module.

      SL360 has a LOT of power and options with the use of variables!
      • LucyWood-cf5987's avatar
        LucyWood-cf5987
        Community Member
        I'm curious, James - was the initial assessment the only assessment in the course, or did you have a post-test for those who didn't score well enough to test out?
    • AllisonLaMotte's avatar
      AllisonLaMotte
      Staff
      Ah yes, I see what you mean! Good catch. I need to update the feedback layers. I think the easiest way to adapt your course for each level would be to have 1 scene for each version of the course, which is what I have set in here in my Storyline file. That being said, if you want to avoid duplicating some of your content, you certainly could use variables to dynamically adapt some of the content.
      • AllisonLaMotte's avatar
        AllisonLaMotte
        Staff
        Fixed! :) You may have to clear your cache to see the updated live link.
  • MarkMitrione's avatar
    MarkMitrione
    Community Member
    Thanks for sharing Alison.

    Can I ask what project dimensions you used?
  • TonyaSmith1's avatar
    TonyaSmith1
    Community Member
    Thanks Allison! This is something I want to incorporate more into my courses.
  • As simple as this template is, @Allison puts a lot of effort into visual design and is something I should not overlook when creating my own courses. Kudos
  • Thanks Allison
    I have just built a course with the opportunity to go straight to the final assessment. Learners were provided with ONE attempt. If they failed the 80+% pass rate (module-dependent), they were directed back to go through the entire module following which, they were allowed 3 attempts with random question and answer placement. It worked well but you always have the possibility that the questions failed are critical process questions so I a looking at modifying this in version 2 to use a pre-assessment and branching to provide a tailored refresher module - summarise the critical information that the user has proven they understand and then provide the full detail and post-module testing for the topics they did not understand. We will see how I go.
  • Allison, thank you so much for sharing this! I replicated this, but setup triggers so that if you get 2 beginner level responses, you're immediately taken to the beginner scene. I then added a couple questions and made it so that if you answer 8 correctly, you are taken to the advanced section. I've shared with some teammates and we hope to incorporate into some training soon!