Quiz - embed within course or separate?

Hi Charlie,

I think one reason for separating the course and the quiz might have been that you could take the quiz without completing the course. For example, if it is an annual course and they just want to check if your knowledge of the subject is still there. So you could do the quiz first and if you pass you don't have to do the course again. If you fail, you have to do the course again and repeat the quiz until you pass.

Another reason to separate the course from the quiz is if you are using Rise for the course and Storyline for the quiz. I had to do this once because my SME wanted to use hotspot questions, which can't be created in Rise yet.

Maybe it's for tracking reasons. I don't know much about tracking and how it works in different LMS, but maybe someone wants to track the course completion separately from the quiz and the learners have to do both.

Separating the course from the quiz also has a disadvantage. If a learner is able to open the course next to the quiz, they could easily search for the right answers during the quiz. I think if you leave the quiz in Rise and go back to a lesson, you'd have to start from scratch.

Those are my thoughts. :)

Greetings

Susi