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Dave_Roberts__CF_
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January 5, 2016
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Quiz: Partial score not working as needed.

  • January 5, 2016
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I must be missing something obvious, but can't see it! Please can anyone explain how to achieve this, it seems pretty simple request:

Quiz question - Multiple answers enabled so is partial score. 1 question with 4 correct answers, 3 incorrect answers so 7 in total. I have given each of the correct answers 1 point, the incorrect answers are set to 0.

But, when I take the question, there is nothing to stop me selecting all 7 and getting maximum points! Can I restrict to 4 answers?

Penalty points doesn't work, if they select 2 correct answers and 2 incorrect answers they end up with 0. They should have 2. We don't allocate minus points on standard questions, so this doesn't work for multiple answers.

For example, if the question is:

Name 4 programs made by Adobe:

1) Word

2) Captivate

3) Illustrator

4) Excel

5) Windows

6) Photoshop

7) Adobe Reader

Ideally only let them select 4 answers, but it allows to answer all. If I select Captivate, Photoshop (2 correct) and Excel and Windows (2 incorrect) I want them to score 2, they have got 2 correct. This works fine if I give correct answers a point each, incorrect 0. But, it all falls down if they answer all 7, they get maximum points!!

Am I missing something simple, anyone kindly got any idea how to correctly set this up? Surely must be a common type of question.

Many thanks,

Dave

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    Sorry to sound like the professor I was for many years: you have to avoid such situations by giving 'penalty' points to the wrong answers, and tell that much to your 'students'.

    Example:

    1. 2 points for each correct answer
    2. -1 point for each incorrect answer

    In your use case if the user checks all answers he gets 4x2=8 points for the correct answers but -3points for the incorrect, so you'll end up with 5 points.

    If he gives two correct and two incorrect answers he will obtain a score of 2x2 - 2x1 =  2 points.

    I found such a ratio 2/1 or eventually 3/1 working most of the time. It depends on the number of questions of course. I often used even different scores for correct answers (the most difficult ones got a higher score) and incorrect answers (the one that everyone avoided got the lowest penalty).

    Just one thing to remember: SCORM 1.2 doesn't support negative score for the end result.

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    Lilybiri
    LilybiriCorrect answer
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    January 5, 2016

    Sorry to sound like the professor I was for many years: you have to avoid such situations by giving 'penalty' points to the wrong answers, and tell that much to your 'students'.

    Example:

    1. 2 points for each correct answer
    2. -1 point for each incorrect answer

    In your use case if the user checks all answers he gets 4x2=8 points for the correct answers but -3points for the incorrect, so you'll end up with 5 points.

    If he gives two correct and two incorrect answers he will obtain a score of 2x2 - 2x1 =  2 points.

    I found such a ratio 2/1 or eventually 3/1 working most of the time. It depends on the number of questions of course. I often used even different scores for correct answers (the most difficult ones got a higher score) and incorrect answers (the one that everyone avoided got the lowest penalty).

    Just one thing to remember: SCORM 1.2 doesn't support negative score for the end result.

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      Dave_Roberts__CF_Author
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      January 5, 2016

      Thank you Lilybiri, very helpful. I had seen some of your other replies for similar, was hoping there was the ideal solution, but we don't live in an ideal world of course!

      That is a good working solution, and I will use this method. Do think there is something lacking from the software, such as setting maximum number of end user answers to maximum number of correct answers, that would fix it....think

      Not using SCORM on this one, so not worried about that.

      Thanks again, and keep up that good work Lilybiri

      All the best,


      Dave

      Lilybiri
      Lilybiri
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      January 5, 2016

      I could solve that as well, with custom question slides

      On Jan 5, 2016 10:22 PM, "Dave Roberts (CF)" <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

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