Storyline Day 2 - Adaptive Quiz

Intro

For today's project, I followed another Devlin Peck tutorial, this time creating an adaptive quiz where the questions (should) get harder with every correct answer submitted and easier with every incorrect response.

If we compare Devlin's project with mine, we can see I went beyond what he did in his workshop. The act of creation inspires more ideas for creation and I wanted my finished product to be more than black text on a white screen. There is of course a time and place for and value in that sometimes, but since this is for practice, why not practice using Storyline's design features as well?

You can try it out HERE and a video walkthrough is below.

Learnings

The main features of this project were variables and conditions.

Variables - From the workshop, these were used to keep track of the user's overall score and correct and incorrect answers. I also decided to collect the user's name at the start of the quiz, so I created a variable for this as well.

Conditions - While the workshop mentioned conditions and offered a brief demo of how they could be used, it wasn't explored in any depth. How I chose to implement them was by determining which end screen the user would see based on their final score. I also added a condition to the first question slide that would trigger if the user chose not to enter a name on the welcome slide.

Final Thoughts

The reason I chose to create a 'userName' variable was to connect Richard Mayer's Personalization Principle of Multimedia Learning to the project. After publishing the quiz and uploading it to AWS to host, I thought that it would have been nice to utilize it on the end screens as well, for a more personal touch. I also would have liked to add a sound effect to the end screens that reflected the user's final result, but that wasn't feasible this time around. I'll be sure to add sound to a future project!

As an ESL teacher with experience coding in JavaScript, I'm very familiar with conditions and conditional statements, so it wasn't difficult to grasp the way conditions are used in Storyline. I'd like to do another project that uses them more prominently, though. Something similar to (but not) a Harry Potter sorting hat situation. I'm a Studio Ghibli fan, and I have one very specific idea in mind. Perhaps that will be Day 3's project.

Stay tuned!