Comments on: Branching Scenarios http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/2009/04/10/branching-scenarios/ Making Articulate software do just what you want it to Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:55:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: daveperso http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/2009/04/10/branching-scenarios/comment-page-1/#comment-12980 daveperso Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:36:34 +0000 http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/?p=974#comment-12980 Hi Jack, Happy New Year too! Glad the solution worked well for you and funny about you and your colleague finding the post independently. Hi Jack, Happy New Year too! Glad the solution worked well for you and funny about you and your colleague finding the post independently.

]]> By: Jack http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/2009/04/10/branching-scenarios/comment-page-1/#comment-12819 Jack Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:01:49 +0000 http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/?p=974#comment-12819 Dave... Here's a little bit of humor to bring in the new year. My colleagues and I have been searching long and hard for a way to accomplish the branching navigation I asked you about on Dec. 17. Today, before I'd seen your response to me describing how to do it, I got a call from my colleague, Manny. He started going on about how he might have found a solution to our navigation problem on a blog belonging to some "Dave Perso" guy who responded to a guy named "Jack". Simultaneously, we both realized that what Manny found through Google was you responding to my question! It was a truly hilarious moment! :-D Anyhow, your technique works like a charm. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to me. We're in the process of converting content made using that other guy's Presenter into Articulate-authored content with all the same - or more - functionality. This was our last road block. You've opened the gates!!! Happy New Year! Dave… Here’s a little bit of humor to bring in the new year. My colleagues and I have been searching long and hard for a way to accomplish the branching navigation I asked you about on Dec. 17. Today, before I’d seen your response to me describing how to do it, I got a call from my colleague, Manny. He started going on about how he might have found a solution to our navigation problem on a blog belonging to some “Dave Perso” guy who responded to a guy named “Jack”. Simultaneously, we both realized that what Manny found through Google was you responding to my question! It was a truly hilarious moment! :-D
Anyhow, your technique works like a charm. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to me. We’re in the process of converting content made using that other guy’s Presenter into Articulate-authored content with all the same – or more – functionality. This was our last road block. You’ve opened the gates!!! Happy New Year!

]]> By: daveperso http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/2009/04/10/branching-scenarios/comment-page-1/#comment-12462 daveperso Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:19:29 +0000 http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/?p=974#comment-12462 Hi Jack, thanks for your comments. You can turn off the "retake quiz" button by doing the following: Open the quiz in Quizmaker. Go to Player Template Builder -> Navigation Uncheck "Prompt to resume on quiz restart" Save and republish your quiz to Presenter (or Save and Return to Presenter if you opened the quiz directly from your PowerPoint) In the Properties for the quiz in PowerPoint, have User may attempt quiz just once. The retake button will disappear since the quiz is sent to be taken just once, but since the prompt to resume function has disappeared now, the quiz will reload as if it had never been taken. I know it is a bit difficult to find that one! Regards Hi Jack, thanks for your comments. You can turn off the “retake quiz” button by doing the following:

Open the quiz in Quizmaker.
Go to Player Template Builder -> Navigation
Uncheck “Prompt to resume on quiz restart”
Save and republish your quiz to Presenter (or Save and Return to Presenter if you opened the quiz directly from your PowerPoint)
In the Properties for the quiz in PowerPoint, have User may attempt quiz just once.

The retake button will disappear since the quiz is sent to be taken just once, but since the prompt to resume function has disappeared now, the quiz will reload as if it had never been taken.

I know it is a bit difficult to find that one! Regards

]]> By: Jack http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/2009/04/10/branching-scenarios/comment-page-1/#comment-12162 Jack Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:02:06 +0000 http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/?p=974#comment-12162 The branching that I want is similar to that which you suggested to Brandy but perhaps simpler. Within a single module, I want to parse it into topics. At the end of each topic, I want to deliver a pass/fail (score immaterial) quiz. If fail, I want to send the learner back to the beginning of that topic. If pass, I want to advance the learner to the next topic. At the end of the module... the last quiz... if fail, they would go back to the beginning of the last topic. If pass, the LMS records the module as passed. I can get this navigation - EXCEPT - I don't want the learner to be able to re-take the quiz until going through the topic content again. I don't want it to be so easy to employ the multiple guess technique. However, I see no way to turn off the "retake quiz" button on the quiz summary slide. Any ideas on how I can suppress the "retake quiz" function? The branching that I want is similar to that which you suggested to Brandy but perhaps simpler. Within a single module, I want to parse it into topics. At the end of each topic, I want to deliver a pass/fail (score immaterial) quiz. If fail, I want to send the learner back to the beginning of that topic. If pass, I want to advance the learner to the next topic. At the end of the module… the last quiz… if fail, they would go back to the beginning of the last topic. If pass, the LMS records the module as passed. I can get this navigation – EXCEPT – I don’t want the learner to be able to re-take the quiz until going through the topic content again. I don’t want it to be so easy to employ the multiple guess technique. However, I see no way to turn off the “retake quiz” button on the quiz summary slide. Any ideas on how I can suppress the “retake quiz” function?

]]> By: daveperso http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/2009/04/10/branching-scenarios/comment-page-1/#comment-5007 daveperso Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:15:29 +0000 http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/?p=974#comment-5007 Hi Brandy, Sorry taking time to get back. Been busy. Quizmaker can only act according to whether you have got more or less than the passmark. So you could have a pretest that would determine if someone needed to take the course or not but you couldn't have one which would direct people to a number of modules according to the score. Maybe that's a feature we'll see in the future. What you could do is have a kind of pretest which would essentially be a group of quizzes each testing knowledge of one module. So the user reaches quiz 1 which has two questions say, and if they pass they move straight onto quiz 2, but if they fail, they are directed to the first module. After finishing the first module, they'd be sent to the first quiz or to another quiz testing the same knowledge and only on passing the quiz would they continue to the second pretest quiz. So for people passing the pretests, they would just go from one 'mini' quiz to another. But for those that failed, they'd have to go through each module. It's changing how you'd envisioned the layout of your course but it might work. Hi Brandy, Sorry taking time to get back. Been busy. Quizmaker can only act according to whether you have got more or less than the passmark. So you could have a pretest that would determine if someone needed to take the course or not but you couldn’t have one which would direct people to a number of modules according to the score. Maybe that’s a feature we’ll see in the future. What you could do is have a kind of pretest which would essentially be a group of quizzes each testing knowledge of one module. So the user reaches quiz 1 which has two questions say, and if they pass they move straight onto quiz 2, but if they fail, they are directed to the first module. After finishing the first module, they’d be sent to the first quiz or to another quiz testing the same knowledge and only on passing the quiz would they continue to the second pretest quiz. So for people passing the pretests, they would just go from one ‘mini’ quiz to another. But for those that failed, they’d have to go through each module. It’s changing how you’d envisioned the layout of your course but it might work.

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