SCORM Quiz Authoring Tool? For larger quizzes? HTML5

SCORM Quiz Authoring Tool? For larger quizzes? HTML5

by Jim Johnson -
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Yes, I have looked at:  https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Creating_SCORM_Content  I am looking for other peoples opinions

Hi.  Moodle 2.6 but upgrading to 2.8 tonight.

Can anybody recommend me a SCORM quiz authoring tool that works well for larger quizzes?  Say 1,000 question bank with 100 questions each attempt?

I have tried:

  1. Wondershare:  Worked great, but uses flash
  2. Captivate:  Large quiz seemed to overwhelm it
  3. Articulate Storyline:  Same issue as captivate
  4. ISpring:  Had issues on some people's computers.

I used to use Wondershare for computers/laptops and a mobile moodle theme/quiz module for tablets/phones.  But nowadays more and more computers are shipping without Flash and I'm getting more support requests due to it.

I thought about using Moodle's built-in quiz module, but for our purposes we use immediate feedback for each question and the "Check Answer" then Submit method takes three times as long to do on a computer because of pageload times.

Any suggestions?

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Re: SCORM Quiz Authoring Tool? For larger quizzes? HTML5

by Tim Hunt -
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Have you properly investigated the Moodle quiz? Specifically the option How questions behave: Interactive with multiple tries. 

There is a good demo quiz here: http://www.open.edu/openlearnworks/mod/quiz/view.php?id=51380 (I am afraid you will need to sign up with your email address if you want to try it.)

(Edited to fix the link.)

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Re: SCORM Quiz Authoring Tool? For larger quizzes? HTML5

by Marcus Green -
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My advice is to use the Moodle quiz and not use SCORM.

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Re: SCORM Quiz Authoring Tool? For larger quizzes? HTML5

by Melanie Scott -

Have to agree with the other two...if it is just a quiz you want to give, quiz module is best.  It allows you to create many banks of questions and you can set it up to randomly select a number of questions from several banks and randomize...and you get terrific reports using Quiz...you can run reports on particular questions (percentage who got it right, math stuff that shows you comparisons to other questions--50% got this right but 75% got all the others right--to give you difficulty ratings and stuff) which are really nice.  When we update our courses, I use this to determine if the content is providing enough information and to determine if the questions are good.

I use Lectora for SCORM, which is very nice (and expensive), and can do randomization and some of the other stuff Quiz can do but I don't know how it does with many questions...I've never added more than 20...but I've never had trouble with Lectora (though I've had issues with iSpring and Captivate, which I've also used).  You cannot get particularly helpful statistics on quiz participation/scoring from SCORM, though.  If you can get answers, you'd have to do all the crazy math on your own.  I vote for letting the computer doing the math.

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Re: SCORM Quiz Authoring Tool? For larger quizzes? HTML5

by Mathew Gancarz -
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Agree with everyone else. We've used Articulate Quizmaker '09 to embed flash quizzes in SCORM packages, and it works decently for 10-20 questions. We've experimented with the HTML5 output in Quizmaker '13, but it was very slow performing when we tested it. It worked, but just barely. I would say there is no way it could handle 100 questions, let alone 1,000.

Fourthing everyone's recommendation to use the built in Moodle quiz.

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Re: SCORM Quiz Authoring Tool? For larger quizzes? HTML5

by Jim Johnson -

That's what I thought, but the quiz module isn't very pretty and immediate feedback is cumbersome. 

I guess we can switch to deferred feedback or maybe do 10 questions per page. 

Reporting is relatively low priority for our application, we just need correct scores at the end.  We don't actually determine the questions we use, so if students have difficulty on one subject or another it's not a priority, they have to just memorize it. 

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Re: SCORM Quiz Authoring Tool? For larger quizzes? HTML5

by Mathew Gancarz -
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Hi Joseph, if you don't really care about the statistics and just care if people got it right or not, you could look at using the Adapt Framework: https://community.adaptlearning.org and just loading the pages up with questions. I'm not sure if it can do a random question bank yet, but it should be an attractive html5 based presentation of the content, along with being able to pass the scorm score back to LMS if needed.



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Re: SCORM Quiz Authoring Tool? For larger quizzes? HTML5

by Jim Johnson -

Adapt learning looks pretty sweet.  I will try it out.


If anybody knows of anything else html5, I am all ears.

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