Number of attempts

Can the quiz be set up for a max amount of attempts by one user?

Hi Michael,

There's no specific setting for this. Creating tokens in Question Writer Tracker allows you to make a quiz available for a single attempt. One approach might be to issue multiple tokens to allow a user to take it a fixed number of times.

In the paper-based versions of our assessments we give students a second attempt at the questions answered incorrectly.

Is it, or will it be, possible to have this feature in QW?

The important bit is that only the questions answered incorrectly must be presented for the second attempt.

Hallo Bill

You can acheive this with Question Writer 4 Professional by using branching on each question. You will need to set it up so that if the incorrect answer is given the student will be sent to another copy of the same question. If they answer it correctly or after the second attempt they will be sent to the next question.

You can read more about branching in our online manual [en.wikibooks.org]

I hope this helps you, but if you need any further information please let me know

Hi Bill,

If I understand correctly, you want to set a second test after the first test that consists only of the questions that the respondent answered incorrectly so that they get a second attempt. You could achieve this with Branching as Hazel mentioned - you'd create a section with all the questions, then duplicate this section. Then in the second section, add a branching instruction before each question, to branch forward if the question has already been answered correctly. This should do it for you.

Branching sounds very flexible but very complicated and needs a lot of work to set it up.
I am sure that it is very useful for some special cases .
On the other hand, a button (or a parameter) at the end of the test which would say “ask me again only those questions that I answered wrong” would be very convenient and for the QW programming team I think it will have a limited programming effort and it worth the trouble.
In my opinion, it is a feature that is very essential in education.

Hallo Eleni

thanks for your feedback. I have already added your suggestion to our Feature Request list which we review when we are planning improvements to the software.

In response to Alex's post, which it seems would do the job, is there any example code available for this specific branching instruction?
I.E. branching to the next question (in section 2) if the answer in section 1 was correct.
If there is, will I need to upgrade from QW3.5?

Hallo Bill

Branching is only available in Question Writer 4. If you purchased Question Writer 3 on or after 1st March this year you will be entitled to a free upgrade and otherwise there are discounts for existing users. Please contact us by email for more information.

The Question Writer blog has some example quizzes and gives access to their .qwz files so you can see how to set up the branching. You can read the blog here: [www.questionwriterblog.com]

I hope this helps you, but don't hesitate to ask if you need any more information.

Hi Hazel,

I've downloaded QW4 [beta] and purchased an upgrade license.
I've downloaded "branching.qwz" and looked at the code but am at a loss to see in the GUI how to implement branching.
In another post you mention that in QW4 there is a "branching" question type, which may be the answer although it does not appear in the list of available types. Is branching achieved only by hard coding?
Although I have only recently acquired QW4, is there a later beta with the branching type selectable?

Thanks,

Bill

Hallo Bill

Branching is available within the GUI as an option for all question types.

I will send you an email with some further guidance on how to use it.