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Alternate Assessments for Foreign Languages

For one of our learning products we have an interest in offering an assessment in multiple languages. I can set these up as separate assessment activities within the product and only require one of the group to be completed, but I run into an issue with maximum attempts.

For example, if I have 3 versions - English, Spanish, and Chinese - each set with a maximum attempts of 2. If I fail the English version twice I'm locked out of it, but I can still access the other 2 versions and attempt each of those twice. Is there a way to either (a) further tie the assessment versions together so that maximum attempts would apply cumulatively to the group, or (b) flag the enrollment as failed and disable the alternate assessment versions once any of the versions is failed twice?

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  • In designing this, wouldn't you have each activity in the learning product have a version for each supported language? So every activity would be available in any of the 3 languages. - Adam Spicer
  • Good point, and in most cases yes I'd expect at least a video/assessment pair in each language, if not a 3rd, 4th, etc. activity. The only activity in this particular product is an assessment though. I wouldn't see it as an issue if the attempts were unlimited and a user simply tried (for example) both the English and Spanish versions. But with the need to cap it at two attempts, a bilingual learner has an advantage. This is not an IMMEDIATE need, just something we are kicking around for the future. We'd appreciate your take on the best way to configure it. The initial use case would be as a prerequisite within a certification product, so creating separate learning products for the assessments and using the latest enhancement to certifications in Sprint 59 (the flag to force you to choose your products) may actually suffice for this one. Diversity and multi-lingual products are key objectives for our teams long term though; relying solely on certifications may reach its limit. - Matt Kamen
  • Thanks Matt - we will keep that in mind moving forward. In the future I'm sure we will have an elegant solution for multi-lingual. For now, maybe if you think of the entire product as a language version then all of the content for a product can be built for that language. - Adam Spicer
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Adam answer this in the comments...but I can't pick a comment as an "approved" answer....

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Responded: 7/31/2014 4:37:53 PM
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