Your tutorial might be the entire question or only part of the question. You can create more than one tutorial in a single question, and you can mix scored and popup tutorials in the same question.
Skipping and Points
For scored tutorials, the decision about whether to allow students to skip tutorial steps affects not only your students' learning experience, but also the points that they can earn for the tutorial.
By default, your students are allowed to skip tutorial steps, but they cannot go back later to complete the skipped steps. This means that students who skip a step permanently forgo any points they could have earned on the step, but they have an opportunity to earn points on any remaining steps in the tutorial.
If you disallow skipping, your students must either answer each step correctly or use all of their submissions for the step before going on to the next step.
Each method has its merits. Skipping steps gives your students an opportunity to move through the tutorial more quickly if they do not understand a step. Disallowing skipping encourages your students to attempt each step, even if only by guessing.
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In Question, add the
<tutorial>tag at the beginning of your tutorial.You can set several attributes to change the way your tutorial behaves.
Attribute
Description
order="ascending"Shows steps in ascending order with the current step at the bottom. (By default, steps are displayed in ascending order with the current step at the top.)
order="descending"Shows steps in descending order with the current step at the top. (By default, steps are displayed in ascending order with the current step at the top.)
skip="no"Requires students to answer each step correctly or use all their submissions before going on to the next step. (By default, students can skip tutorial steps.)
skip_text="text"Renames the Skip button to
text(if you allow students to skip tutorial steps.)For example:
<tutorial order="ascending" skip_text="Show the answer (no points earned) and move to the next step">After the
<tutorial>tag, use the<premise>tag to set a title for the tutorial and display the overall problem or concept the tutorial addresses. You must use the closing</premise>tag at the end of the premise.For example:
<premise title="Multiplying Fractions"> When you multiply fractions, you multiply the numerators and you multiply the denominators.<br><br> <watex>\[ \frac{3}{4} * \frac{13}{16} = \]</watex> </premise>Enclose each tutorial step with the
<step>tag. You must use the closing</step>tag at the end of each step.You can set several attributes to change the way each step is displayed.
Attribute
Description
button="text"Requires students to click a button with the specified text in order to see the step. (By default, each step is displayed as soon as the student either correctly answers or skips the previous step.)
label="text"Replaces the default label Step
nofmwith the specified text.title="text"Displays the specified text after the step label.
skip_text="text"Renames the Skip button to
text(if you allow students to skip tutorial steps.)For example:
<step button="Start" label="Part I" title="Multiply the Numerators"> 3 · 13 = <_> </step>Optionally, add tutorial hints in any step with the
<hint>tag. You must end each hint with the closing</hint>tag.Tutorial hints are shown as a lightbulb icon
and display either Hint or a label that you specify with the labelattribute. When your student clicks the icon, the contents of the<hint>tag are displayed in place of the label.For example:
<hint label="Show hint">Use the Pythagorean Theorem.</hint>Optionally, use the
<conclusion>tag to display information after your students complete or skip the last step.You must end the conclusion with the closing
</conclusion>tag.For example:
<conclusion title="Conclusion">You have finished the tutorial.</conclusion>End the tutorial with the closing
</tutorial>tag.Click Test/Preview to test the appearance and behavior of the question. See Test Questions.
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Example Tutorial Question The following table summarizes an actual question. QID 1251029 Name Template2 3.TUT.01. Mode Multi-Mode...QN Question <tutorial skip="no" order="ascending"> <premise title="Using the Substitution Method"> <watex>For simple systems of equations, you can often use the substitution method to solve for \[x\] and \[y\].\vspace{1em}\[ x + y = 6 \\ x - y = 2 \]</watex></premise> <step><watex>Solve for \[x\] in terms of \[y\].\vspace{1em} \[ x + y = 6 \\ x = <_> \]</watex></step> <step><watex>Rewrite the second equation, substituting \[ 6-y \] for \[ x \]. \vspace{1em}\[ x - y = 2 \\ <_> = 2 \]</watex></step> <SECTION><step><watex>Solve for \[y\].\vspace{1em}\[ 6 - y - y = 2 \\ y = <_> \]</watex></step> <step><watex>Substitute 2 for \[y\] in either equation and solve for \[x\].\vspace{1em} \[ x + 2 = 6 \\x - 2 = 2 \\ x = <_> \]</watex></step> </tutorial> Answer <EQN $PAD='devmath'; ''>y:6-y <EQN $PAD='devmath'; ''>y:(6-y)-y <SECTION><EQN $size=2; ''>2 <EQN $size=2; ''>4 Display to Students 