Garth "... or, at most, just get feedback only (not see the entire page they've just worked through)?"
Hmm, this question crops up from time in the Lesson forum, and I must plead guilty and explain.
A few years ago, this is how the Lesson Questions + Feedback used to work:
- Question page with "question text" at the top (or filling out the whole screen, etc.) and e.g. multiple choice question underneath.
- Student answered question, e.g. clicked on one of the MCQ choices and clicked the "Please check one answer" button.
- A new page was displayed, containing the feedback corresponding to student's choice, and the "Continue" button under the feedback text.
- If student's choice was correct, the Continue button took them to the next page in the sequence; otherwise, student was taken back to original page.
I was not happy with the way the feedback was displayed and I contended that it did not make sense for a feedback message to appear on its own on a page where a) the question text and b) the student's answer were no longer displayed.
As a consequence of my protests, things were changed, and we now have this sequence of events:
- Question page with "question text" at the top (or filling out the whole screen, etc.) and e.g. multiple choice question underneath.
- Student answers question, e.g. clicks on one of the MCQ choices and clicks the "Please check one answer" button.
- At the bottom of the same page, with question text still visible, student's answer is displayed "Your answer:" as well as the feedback corresponding to student's answer, and the "Continue" button under the feedback text.
This "new" way of displaying things is perfect for Question pages which contain very little text in the "Question text" part, where the feedback message is important and must be displayed and read by the student.
It is not so ergonomic for Question pages which contain longish text (more than one screenful) and where there is no specific feedback message (the default feedback is displayed). I has been suggested, for those cases, that the feedback message (and also, maybe, the "Your answer:" prompt + student's answer could be displayed at the top of the page rather than at the bottom. That suggestion (in the case of short question texts especially) would mean a not logical way to display things (having the answer before the question!).
In conclusion, because the Question page in the Lesson module can be used for rather different uses, it is not possible to have a display system that satisfies everyone. One possibility would be to add yet another display setting, either for the whole Lesson or for individual questions. There are far too many settings in the Lesson module as it is at the moment, and adding another might, I think, only add to the confusion.
Joseph
