Question pools and slide draws

In the lesson editor's toolbar, the pool button reads All questions until you set one. Click it and enter Questions per attempt, then Save. The button then reads Draw N of M: each learner gets N of the lesson's M question blocks, drawn at random. Leave the number blank for every question.

Only question blocks are drawn. Headings, text, media and every other block always show, so a lesson that mixes teaching and questions keeps its teaching. The draw is taken from all the questions in the lesson, so put each pool in a lesson of its own.

• Kept on resume. The draw comes from the learner's attempt, so a learner who leaves and comes back sees the same questions. A new attempt draws again.
• Answered questions stay. A question the learner has already answered is always part of their attempt.
• Scored on what was drawn. The score counts only the drawn questions, out of the points they are worth.
• Nothing else can be answered. The server refuses an answer to a question that was not drawn for that attempt.

On the slide canvas the unit is a slide. Select a slide with nothing on it selected, and in Slide Properties find Random draw:

1. Type a Bank name. Slides with the same bank name are one bank.
2. Set Show: how many of that bank's slides each attempt gets.
3. Give every slide in the bank the same bank name and the same number.

Each attempt shows that many of the bank's slides at random, in the order you authored them, and the same ones when the learner resumes. Slides that were not drawn are not part of the attempt, and their questions do not count toward the score. Clear the bank name to take a slide out of the draw.

Question pools come across from imports already set: a Captivate question pool becomes a lesson that draws as many questions per attempt as Captivate did (or a slide bank, when the course lands on the slide canvas), and a Storyline scene that drew slides from a question bank becomes a slide bank that draws the same number. The import report lists them as Question pools or Random question draws.

An exported SCORM, cmi5 or xAPI package makes the draw once per attempt and saves it with the learner's progress, so resuming in the LMS shows the same questions or slides and a new attempt draws again. The draw is one of the things the package always keeps when SCORM 1.2's resume space runs short. See Export to your LMS.