Storyline 360: Adding Form-Based Questions
Storyline 360 has 20 types of graded and survey questions. They're form-based, which makes them quick and easy to assemble. (If you'd like more flexibility to create your own interactive questions, see Adding Freeform Questions.) Insert a Question Slide Enter Question Text and Answer Choices Customize Question Properties Create Form-Based Questions with AI Assistant Want to create form-based questions even more easily? AI Assistant can help you generate form-based questions in no time! Learn how to use AI Assistant to level up your course authoring game. Step 1: Insert a Question Slide Here's how to insert a form-based question slide into your course: First, do any of the following to open the Insert Slide window: Press Ctrl+Q. Go to the Home tab on the ribbon, click New Slide, and choose Graded Question or Survey Question. Go to the Slides tab on the ribbon and click Graded Question or Survey Question. In Story View, right-click anywhere in the workspace, scroll to New Slide, and choose Graded Question or Survey Question. In Slide View or Form View, right-click anywhere in the Scenes panel, scroll to New Slide, and choose Graded Question or Survey Question. When the Insert Slide window appears, use the search field at the top and the filters along the left edge to locate the question you want to add. The slide browser includes built-in templates as well as professionally-designed Content Library 360 templates. Choose from 11 types of graded questions and 9 types of ungraded survey questions. Graded Question Types Survey Question Types True/False Likert Scale Multiple Choice Pick One Multiple Response Pick Many Fill-in-the-Blank Which Word Word Bank Short Answer Matching Drag-and-Drop Essay Matching Drop-down Ranking Drag-and-Drop Sequence Drag-and-Drop Ranking Drop-down Sequence Drop-down How Many Numeric Hotspot When you click a thumbnail image for a slide, the right side of the window shows a description of that question type. Click Insert Slide to add it to your project. Tip: You can insert multiple questions at the same time by holding down the Ctrl key or the Shift key while clicking thumbnail images. Step 2: Enter Question Text and Answer Choices When you insert a question slide, it'll open in Form View. Type your question into the field at the top of the window and the answer choices below it. For many graded question types, you must also indicate which answer is correct—just select the radio button or check box for the correct response(s). Step 3: Customize Question Properties After inserting a form-based question, you can customize several of its attributes, including shuffling of answer choices, feedback, branching, score, and number of attempts. To learn how, see Working with the Question Editor. If your form-based questions have check boxes or radio buttons, you can format them to match your course design. See these user guides for details: Working with Check Boxes Working with Radio ButtonsStoryline 3: Using Feedback Masters
Feedback masters in Storyline 3 let you control the default colors, fonts, text, and objects for question feedback layers. Save time by using feedback masters to give your feedback layers a consistent look and feel throughout your course. Switching to Feedback Master View Adding Feedback Masters and Layouts Managing Feedback Masters and Layouts Designing Feedback Masters and Layouts Closing Feedback Master View Changing Layouts for Existing Feedback Layers Switching to Feedback Master View To switch to the feedback master, go to the View tab on the ribbon and click Feedback Master. A Storyline course can have as many feedback masters as you want, and every course has at least one. Thumbnail images of your feedback masters appear in the left panel. If you haven't created any yet, you'll see the default feedback master. Each feedback master is a collection of layouts for various types of feedback, including Correct, Incorrect, Try Again, Review, and Thank You. The feedback master thumbnail in the left panel is slightly larger than the thumbnails of its layouts below. Each layout inherits all the properties of its parent feedback master, but you can customize each layout to display content in a specific way. For example, you might design your correct feedback layout with affirmative text and images, while your incorrect feedback layout might have placeholders for corrective content. Adding Feedback Masters and Layouts To create a new feedback master, switch to Feedback Master view, then do either of the following: Go to the Feedback Master tab on the ribbon and click Insert Slide Master. Right-click anywhere in the left panel and select Insert Slide Master. You can also add more layouts to each feedback master. Here’s how: In the left panel, select the feedback master where you want to add a new layout. Go to the Feedback Master tab on the ribbon and click Insert Layout, or right-click the feedback master thumbnail and select Insert Layout. The new layout will inherit the properties of its parent feedback master, and it'll have a Title text box (which can be deleted or turned off—see below). Managing Feedback Masters and Layouts You can delete, rename, preserve, and duplicate feedback masters and layouts. Delete To delete a feedback master and all its layouts, select the feedback master in the left panel and press the Delete key on your keyboard (or click Delete on the ribbon). If you only want to delete a layout (but not its parent feedback master), select the layout in the left panel and press the Delete key on your keyboard (or click Delete on the ribbon). Tip: You can't delete a feedback master or layout that's currently being used by slides in your course. Rename It's a good idea to give your feedback masters and layouts recognizable names. This makes it easier to identify and apply them to slides throughout your course. To rename a feedback master or a layout, select it in the left panel, go to the Feedback Master tab on the ribbon, and click Rename. Another way to rename is to right-click a feedback master or layout, then select Rename Master or Rename Layout. Preserve If a feedback master isn't currently being used by any layers in your course but you want to keep it for later use, you can preserve it. Select the feedback master in the left panel, go to the Feedback Master tab on the ribbon, and click Preserve. You can also right-click the feedback master and select Preserve Master. Duplicate If you want to create new feedback masters or layouts similar to existing ones, just duplicate them. Right-click the feedback master or layout in the left panel, then select Duplicate Slide Master or Duplicate Layout. Designing Feedback Masters and Layouts To design your feedback masters and layouts, use the Home, Insert, Transitions, and Animations tabs on the ribbon as well as the following features found on the Feedback Master tab. Insert Placeholder The Insert Placeholder drop-down has several optional placeholders for layouts: content, text, picture, character, video, and web object. After adding a placeholder to a layout, you can resize it and position it where you want it on the slide. This option isn't available for feedback masters. It only applies to layouts. Title The Title box adds a title placeholder to a layout when it's checked. Uncheck the box to remove the title placeholder. This option isn't available for feedback masters. It only applies to layouts. Theme Preview Feedback masters don't have themes of their own. They inherit colors and fonts from the slides to which they're applied. This means you can use the same feedback layout on multiple slides in your course, and it could have different colors and fonts on each slide if your project has multiple design themes. When you first open feedback master view, your layouts default to the colors and fonts of the last slide you viewed. This gives you an idea of how your layouts would look if they were applied to that slide. And if you have more than one design theme in your course, you can quickly switch between them to get a preview of how your feedback layouts look in each one. Just click the thumbnail images in the Theme Preview gallery to see how each theme affects your feedback layouts. There's a thumbnail image for each design theme in your course. Note that theme previews don't change the colors and fonts on your feedback layers. They just give you a glimpse of how your feedback layers look without having to close feedback master view. To actually change the colors and fonts on your feedback master layouts, use the Home and Format tabs on the ribbon. Tip: Theme previews are available in Storyline 3 builds 3.7.20003.0 and later. Background Styles The Background Styles drop-down lets you apply a consistent background design to your feedback masters and layouts. Hover over a background style to preview how it would look if applied to your feedback master. Click a background style to apply it to the current feedback master. If you only want to apply it to a specific layout, right-click the desired background style and choose Apply Only to This Slide. To customize the background style, click Format Background at the bottom of the drop-down, then use the Fill and Picture tabs to design your background style. To learn more about background styles, see this user guide. Hide Background Graphics When the Hide Background Graphics box is marked, objects on the current layout that have been inherited from its parent feedback master will be hidden. Hidden background graphics won't appear in your published course for any feedback layers that are based on that layout. This option isn't available for feedback masters. It only applies to layouts. Closing Feedback Master View To exit Feedback Master view, go to the Feedback Master tab on the ribbon and click Close Master View. Any changes you made to existing feedback masters and layouts will automatically be applied to slides in your course. Changing Layouts for Existing Feedback Layers To change the layout for an existing feedback layer in your course, switch to Slide View and select the feedback layer you want to edit in the Feedback Layers panel. Then do any of the following: Go to the Home tab on the ribbon, click Apply Layout, and choose a layout. Right-click the slide workspace, scroll to Apply Layout, and choose a layout. Right-click the slide thumbnail in the Scenes panel, scroll to Apply Layout, and choose a layout.Storyline 3: Drawing Slides from a Question Bank
After creating a question bank and populating it with question slides, you can draw one or more slides from the bank to create dynamic quizzes in your Storyline 3 course. You can even randomize question draws to keep quizzes from being predictable. Multiple question draws can be pulled from the same question bank, which means you can reuse the same questions in more than one quiz. For example, you might add a question draw to the middle of your course as an ungraded knowledge check, then add another question draw to the end of your course as a graded assessment. Adding a Question Draw Editing a Question Draw Adding a Question Draw Select the scene in your course where you want to add a question draw (or create a new scene), then do this: Go to the Slides tab on the ribbon, click Question Banks, and choose New Draw from Question Bank. If you have more than one question bank in your project, use the Question Bank drop-down to select the one you want. (If you need to edit the question bank, click the Edit question bank link beside the drop-down.) To display questions in a random order, mark the box to Draw questions randomly. Use the Include drop-down to choose how many questions you want to draw from the bank. (This option will be grayed-out if you didn't randomize your questions in the previous step.) Use the Include in Shuffle column in the question grid to decide whether each question will be Randomly displayed (which is the default option), Never displayed, or Always displayed in this particular question draw. Locking slides affects how they're randomized and drawn into your course. For example, you might lock a slide to the top of your question draw so it'll always appear first in your quiz, regardless of how the other slides are randomized. To lock a slide, click Lock Question at the bottom of the window and choose one of the locking options. You can lock a slide to the question immediately above/below it or to the top/bottom of the question draw. If you change your mind, you can remove the lock in the same manner. To reorder slides for your question draw, simply drag them to a new location in the grid, or click Move Question at the bottom of the window and select Up/Down. When you've finished making your selections, click Insert to complete the question draw. The placeholder slide for question draws looks like this in Slide View. The placeholder thumbnail for question draws looks like this in Story View. Editing a Question Draw If you need to change the parameters for an existing question draw, such as randomization or how many questions are included, switch to Slide View and click the top half of the placeholder slide where it says Click to view the slide draw. (If you’re in Story View, just double-click the placeholder thumbnail.) If you need to edit the question bank from which the questions will be drawn, click the bottom half of the placeholder slide where it says Click to view the question bank. (Learn more about editing question banks.)Storyline 3: Adding and Editing Slides in a Question Bank
In this user guide, you'll learn how to add and edit slides in a question bank. Click any of the following topics to jump directly to that section: Opening a Question Bank for Editing Adding Slides to a Question Bank Cutting, Copying, Pasting, Duplicating, and Deleting Slides Editing Questions in Slide View Rearranging Slides Locking Slides Working with Triggers Adjusting Slide Properties Opening a Question Bank for Editing To open a question bank so you can add and edit slides, go to the Slides tab on the ribbon, click Question Banks, and select the name of the bank you want to open. Adding Slides to a Question Bank To add slides to the current question bank, go to the Slides tab on the ribbon and choose any slide type. (Question banks can contain any kind of slide, except result slides.) Here’s a brief description of each slide type (or source) with links to learn more. My Templates Save time by creating and reusing your own custom templates, or download templates from the E-Learning Heroes community. Basic Layouts Basic layouts are common slide designs for titles, text, and media. Basic layouts are based on your design theme and slide masters as well as templates you’ve added to the current project. Import Maintain a consistent design and save time by importing slides from PowerPoint presentations, Quizmaker quizzes, Engage interactions, and other Storyline projects. You can even import quiz questions from Excel spreadsheets and text files. Questions Choose from dozens of question templates, both form-based and freeform. Import Questions Use this option when you want to import slides from other question banks or scenes in the same project. You can either copy (duplicate) those slides in the open question bank or move them out of the original banks/scenes into the open question bank. Record Screen Record your screen once, then insert the screencast as a video on a single slide or as step-by-step interactive simulations—or both! You can’t record screencasts directly into a question bank. However, you can record screencasts into a scene in your project, then copy/paste them into a question bank. Cutting, Copying, Pasting, Duplicating, and Deleting Slides Use the clipboard options on the Home tab to cut, copy, and paste slides in the open question bank. You can even use the clipboard options to copy slides from scenes in your project and paste them into a question bank (and vice versa). To duplicate a slide, right-click it and choose Duplicate Question, or just press Ctrl+D. To delete a slide, press the Delete key on your keyboard or click Delete Question on the Home tab. Editing Questions in Slide View To edit a question, just double-click it to open it in Slide View where you can change the slide design and adjust the question properties. See Working with the Question Editor for details. You can also open a question for editing in either of these ways: Go to the Home tab on the ribbon and click Edit Question. Right-click the question and choose Edit Question. Rearranging Slides The easiest way to rearrange slides in a question bank is to simply drag them with your mouse to a new location. You can also reorder slides in either of these ways: Go to the Home tab on the ribbon, click Move Question, then choose Up or Down. Right-click a question, scroll to Move Question, then choose Up or Down. Locking Slides Locking slides affects how they're randomized and drawn into your course. For example, you might lock a slide to the top of your question bank so it'll always appear first in your quiz—even if you randomize your question draw. To lock a question, go to the Home tab on the ribbon, click Lock Question, and choose one of the locking options. You can lock a slide to the question immediately above/below it or to the top/bottom of the question bank. If you change your mind, you can remove the lock in the same fashion. Working with Triggers You can also manage your triggers and variables while working in a question bank. Just use the triggers panel on the right side of the screen. Adjusting Slide Properties Manage the properties of your question bank slides—such as how they advance and which navigation controls they have—using the slide properties panel in the lower right corner of the screen. Learn more about slide properties. You Might Also Want to Explore: Creating and Managing Question Banks Drawing Slides from a Question BankStoryline 3: Confirming That Learners Are Ready to Submit Their Answers
Because unanswered questions negatively impact quiz scores, you may want to ask learners to confirm that they've answered all the questions before they proceed to the result slide, especially if you've configured the quiz to submit answers all at once. Here's one technique: Add a new slide between the last question in your quiz and the result slide. Basic-slide layouts work well. Add a button called Review (or something similar) and add a trigger to the button that jumps to the first slide in the quiz. Add another button called Submit (or something similar) and add a trigger to the button that jumps to the result slide. Add a text box to the slide that instructs learners to: Click the Review button if they skipped any questions or want to review their answers before submitting them. Click the Submit button when they're ready to submit their answers and complete the quiz.
