Evaluation and assessment tools

The evaluation and assessment options allow you to control how learners progress through your scenario. You can set time limits to create a sense of urgency, assign scores to individual tasks or decision points to track how users progress through the experience, and choose whether learners will see their results at the end. These features help you measure performance and provide meaningful feedback within the scenario.

This article includes:

• Block properties
  • Timer
  • Scores
  • Label
• Scenario settings
  • Timer 
  • End screen

Block Properties

You can enhance blocks by adding extra properties: scores to track learner progress and assign scores, timers to limit the time spent on a block, and labels to organize and identify blocks within the editor.

To add a property to a block, click on any block and select one of the corresponding options from the panel that appears above the block:

Timer

A Timer limits how much time a user can spend on a scenario block. Once the timer runs out, the user will not be able to interact with the block and will be prompted to move to the next block. Timers can be added to any block type. When a timer is added to a branching block and the learner doesn't choose before the timer runs out, they will be moved to the first (topmost) branch.

To add a timer, click on the timer icon and enter the minutes and seconds the block will be displayed for. 

Note: if you've enabled the 'Back' button in scenario settings, the learner will be able to go back to the block and restart the timer.  If the learner restarts the scenario, all timers will reset.

Scores

Scores allow you to provide numeric feedback to the user and track their progress through the scenario. You can assign scores for each completed path by putting the score to the last block in the path if you’d like to grade your learners based on how they completed the scenario. Different paths can contain scores with different score values.

Click on the scores icon and enter the value. The viewer will receive the score once they proceed to the next block.  

Label

You can use customizable labels to make it easier to keep track of how your scenario is set up, e.g. by labeling the best options with a certain color. Note that labels are not visible to viewers - they'll appear only in the scenario editor.

Scenario settings

The 'Timer' and 'End screen' tabs in your scenario settings let you control key elements of the learner experience, including timing, navigation, and what appears when the scenario is completed. These options provide tools to manage progression, display results, and guide learners through the scenario in a structured way.

Timer 

The scenario timer allows you to limit how much time a learner can spend viewing the whole scenario. Click the cog icon in the top bar to open scenario settings, select the Timer tab, and enter the time limit in minutes:

Note that you can also limit how much time learners spend on individual blocks using block properties.

The learners will be warned that they have limited time to complete the scenario, and the countdown will be shown in the lower tab. Note that the timer will refresh if the learner restarts the scenario or reloads the page. 

'Timer auto advance' setting allows you to force learners to move to the next block when the timer for a block runs out. If this setting is off, the learner will see a pop-up explaining that they've run out of time.

End screen

End screen settings panel allows you to customize what is shown once the learner completes the scenario. To change these settings, open the settings window and select the 'End screen' tab:

• Show results screen: if enabled, the learner will be shown a special screen at the end of the scenario that will state how many points they've received, how many goals they've reached, what % of the scenario they've viewed, and a summary of all answers they provided in 'Question' blocks. This setting is off by default.
• Show 'Restart scenario' button: if enabled, the learner will see the option to restart the scenario once they reach the end. This setting is off by default.
• Heading field allows you to customize the heading of the message displayed at the end of the scenario. By default, the heading will say 'Congratulations!'. Note that the heading cannot be longer than 70 characters.