

In the default setup the number of attempts for graded questions is set to 1. Reason is that you need the Properties panel for partial scored MCQ slides with multiple correct answers. Set up a workspace where both the Quiz Properties and the Properties panel are visible. For quizzes however I strongly recommend to switch to the Expert UI (check the option ‘Enable custom Workspaces….’ under Preferences, General Settings).

That panel appears automatically in the newbie UI when you insert a quiz slide (or a random slide) in the right docking station. Setup for both is done in the Quiz Properties panel. This article will explore the scoring and attempts on two available levels: Pretest questions have scoring as well, but the values are stored in different system variables, and are only meant to navigate the learner to another slide, based on the pretest result. You will get some tips about the default score slide at the end. Scoring doesn’t exist for Knowledge check slides, you can only choose attempts on question level, not on quiz level. For those slides the results are stored in the quizzing system variables, and you can have the score slide in your course. This post will be talking exclusively about scored (graded) quiz slides and random quiz slides which are graded. Those posts applied to all types of questions: scored, random, Knowledge Check, pretest slides. In the first two articles of this sequence about Quizzing, I explained the Terminology, and the Submit Process
