Development:Plans for adaptive mode

Work in progress

At the OU we are planning to do some work on adaptive mode of the quiz, because we think that there are some usability problems with how it currently works, and because it does not quite meet our needs. This page outlines those plans so we can discuss them.

The main usability problem

To demonstrate the big usability problem:

A. In an adaptive quiz, you enter the wrong answer to a question, the click submit. This is what you see:

B. Then you think again, and enter the right answer (but don't click submit yet). This is what you see:

C. Then you click save, and go away, perhaps you want to check a resource in the course that explains the underlying theory. Then you come back. Now it looks subtly different:

D. Finally when you do click submit you get this:

We believe that what you see in B. and C. is confusing, and students should never see a question in this state.

So how to we avoid this?

The problem is that we only have a single way to display quesions in adaptive mode, which is "showing feedback to any previous response, and allowing the student to enter their next response".