New Quizzes: Text Spacers and One at a Time Questions

[JWestTXWES]

Hi there!

I'm trying to design a quiz with text spacers between each question. So 10 question quiz, 9 spacers. The problem I'm running into is that I also don't want students to be able to backtrack, so I've enabled the "one question at a time" and "lock questions after answering" options. 

When I preview the quiz, each time I move past a spacer I get an error message saying "You can't come back to this question once you hit next. Are you sure you want to leave it blank?" This is frustrating because not only is it time-consuming to have to click OK at the top of the page each time, but also, there's nothing to leave blank. No answer is required at all.

Is there any way to get around this? 

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @JWestTXWES ...

I'm not clear on what the purpose of these 9 "spacers" are between each of your questions.  Can you elaborate a bit?

[JWestTXWES]

@Chris_Hofer Absolutely! I'm an instructional designer, and the faculty member I'm designing the course for wants to design a practice quiz. He wants to break a long, complex problem into 10 steps, and have text between each step, like so:

Question 1 (What is the value of X?)

Text spacer (The correct answer was 20, if you did not get 20, check your work with this solution and use 20 moving forward)

Question 2 (What is the value of Y?)

And so on until the end of the scaffolded problem. 

Quizzes lets me show one at a time and lock in answers, but each time I click next after one of the solution text spacers, I get that error message asking if I want to leave it blank.

[ericwhitmer]

Would using the feedback for the correct answer and incorrect answer meet your needs? So if the student answers the incorrect answer, you would put in the feedback for that specific answer to use the correct answer going forward.

[ajdeeley]

If your “text spacer” is offering an answer anyway to be used in the following questions, why not just include that answer in the beginning of the next question? Then the info is displayed and no warning messages for the spacers.

[JWestTXWES]

We looked at that, but we couldn't find a way to make that feedback immediate. He very much wants students to only have to take this once, and receive solutions to each step before moving on to the next step.

[ericwhitmer]

I think the next best option for your situation may be to make a True/False Question and give it 0 points.

[ajdeeley]

perhaps I misunderstand, but why would you need space between each question if you enable "one question at a time"? no spacers necessary.  And if you use a question as a spacer, then you're not getting an error--that message is a reminder to answer every question (result of "lock questions after" option) whether you've provided an answer in the key or not.