A SCORM-Ready Template: Part 4E. Qualtrics Quizzes – Set scores for each question
- Once all the questions and feedback are added to the quiz, go to the scoring menu by selecting “Scoring… ” from the Advanced Options menu.
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A SCORM-Ready Template: Part 4D. Qualtrics Quizzes – Create Feedback
Create feedback for each question
- Qualtrics does not automatically generate feedback for each question, but it is simple to create feedback items using Display Logic. After each scored question in your quiz, add one or more Text/Graphic questions, containing the feedback for each choice.
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A SCORM-Ready Template: Part 4C. Qualtrics Quizzes – Create the quiz
Create a scored quiz in Qualtrics
- The easiest way to get all the pieces right is to import an example Qualtrics quiz and add your own questions to it.
Download this example Scored Survey XML file.
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A SCORM-Ready Template: Part 4B. Qualtrics Quizzes : End of Survey Message
Create an “End of Survey” message
We’ll start at the end first: in order to communicate with the learning module, your Qualtrics quizzes will all need to reference a custom End of Survey message, which will be located in your Qualtrics message library.
Continue readingA SCORM-Ready Template: Part 4A. Embedded Qualtrics Quizzes
IMPORTANT If you have never used the SCORM-ready learning module template before, please go back to Part 1: Features, Outline your Module to learn how to set it up correctly.
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Enhancing Learning through Technology – Part 2
Scenario-based learning can teach decision-making and thinking processes. Here is an example of the “Labyrinth” scenario-based learning system created in a Scottish medical school which features low fidelity simulations created with just text and pictures – but with great effect.
Each page describes what’s going on and gives a choice of action.
Here you are a doctor doing rounds and a nurse comes in with news about a patient who is increasingly breathless. Your choice here is “Stick with the rounds” or “Ask to see the patient”
If you stick with the rounds, you start wondering if you are doing the right thing, and are soon brought back to the right track -going to see the patient.
Continue readingEnhancing Learning through Technology – Part I
This is a talk I gave recently to a group of educator/trainers within the U of M Health System. Although it contains many UMHS-specific references, the concepts outlined in it can be applied to other training environments as well. There’s nothing particularly original here, just some suggestions for how to select among different technologies commonly available. This was the first part of a two-part presentation. The second part featured tips for creating engagement and improving digital photography.
Best Practice Showcase: Enhancing Learning through Technology
Our team has lots of tools you can use to create online training. There are so many choices, in fact, that it can be difficult to decide which to select when you’re starting a new project.
To help you sort through all the options, I’m going to give you some typical instructional situations and suggest tools that might best support them, without breaking the budget in the process. These are all things you can use – they don’t require a computer science degree to get a good result!
Continue readingAdobe Captivate for Mac is in beta
Good news for those who are interested in creating interactive learning content on the Mac: Adobe Captivate for Mac is in beta testing. You can volunteer to test the pre-release versions here: Prerelease Interest Form
Continue readingA SCORM-Ready Template: Part 6A. Adapt the SCORM template for Moodle
The HTML SCORM template works with Moodle, but it needs a few modifications to work perfectly.
- Server side include statements in the content pages must be replaced with the real code
- The closing javascript on buttons in the navbar needs to be modified from “top.window.close()” to “window.close” because of the Moodle uses a different learning activity window structure than our own in-house LMS.
I’ve made these changes and created a “Moodleized” version of the template for you to download:
DOWNLOAD MOODLE VERSION OF TEMPLATE
This template is an unscored activity and should just mark itself complete. I will soon be posting one that will allow scored interactions on each page as well.
Continue readingSerious Games: Potential problems with using serious games
Potential problems with using serious games
“Although games can be effective learning environments, not all games are effective, nor are all games educational. Similarly, not all games are good for all learners or for all learning outcomes.”
– Diana Oblinger, 2006
- When deciding to use a game for training, it’s important to clearly state your learning objectives and to determine exactly what advantages the game will provide. If the game is too easy or too hard, or does not focus on the objectives, it may simply waste the learners’ time. Depending on the type of game you intend to use, you may need to go through a substantial testing phase to ensure success.
Some of the possible issues to watch out for: