How can you check for Max Attempts?
January 22, 2018 12:00 AM
When creating a question, using Max Attempts enabled (say I give them 3 attempts to answer correctly) is there any way to check if Max attempts is reached? Lectora must already track a variable in itself to see if that has been reached, correct?
I know you can create an action group and set up custom actions within it to accomplish this, or others will suggest setting up a counter to a variable and then running an action group to read the counter and then do an action to act on that.. etc etc
But this has to be simpler than that... right? Having to program custom actions and action groups and counters for something that should be as easy as checking a variable for true or false, is like adding 10x the amount of work. How does lectora know when you've reached the max number of attempts you set for the question? The 'Process Question' action must perform a test or series of tests to check for this stuff, correct? Does anyone know exactly what those actions are?
My end goal would be to have a button that checks for either the question being correct, or for max attempts being reached.
What I know so far is that as soon as the question is answered incorrectly, it is technically marked as complete regardless of whether the max number has been reached, which eliminates being able to test for completion as a possibility.
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No, wasn't able to find a variable for Max Attempts.
Basically, what I did was on the Submit button for the question I added an Action that modifies a custom variable by adding 1 to it, then it runs the ProcessQuestion Action, then I added another Action that activates the next button upon meeting the condition of the question being correct or that custom variable being Greater than or equal to the number I had for Max attempts.
*Update*
I did find a relatively simple way of doing this, but still relies on a counter and checking for Greater than or equal to the number of attempts. To Program this on to all of my questions took a good 1-2 hours. Having to do all custom programming and feedback would've taken 3-4 times that amount of time.
Did you find a Lectora variable you can read for max attempts, or did you have to hard code that value to match what you had set on each question?
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