Adaptive Learning Paths

Hi @Tiffany.SS 

First I created the courses/content that would be part of the learning path.

Second I set up a Competency Assessment (Communications > Competency Assessments) with a single, select boxes question and for each “answer” I selected the corresponding content created in step 1.

I set the assessment as graded Yes, but without a minimum passing score.

Third I created the Learning Path.

• The first milestone is the course that introduces the topic. It is required by all learners.
• The second milestone “Choose Your Topics” is the dynamic competency assessment. It “assigns” the courses based on the check boxes the learner selects.
• NOTE: The assigned courses do not need to be taken in order nor is the completion of one contingent upon another.

That’s it! We’ve tested it and if a learner goes in an “retakes” the assessment (ie: chooses different topics from the checkboxes) and refreshes their browser, the courses that appear in the learning path change.

Here is the completed Learning Path that provides the learners with an Introduction and then up to three courses:

Hopefully I accurately recreated the steps I took! I’m really looking forward to leveraging this same concept with more complex topics and am glad that the initial one I tried was relatively simple.

@RKBrodeur To truly turn this into a comp assessment as you mention, I would just frame the questions like this.  “What is 2+2?”  Answer choices would all relate to the same content that teaches basic math if incorrect and the correct answer would offer no content (multi choice single select) because you have nothing new to learn.

@JQuinn The score is either for future development or it just works no different than a regular Quiz, which case I would just use a Quiz.  I wish I had more to share on that.

Hi @RKBrodeur. Thanks for the reply.  The use case we are trying to implement is to give the learner an assessment test to prove existing knowledge on a product.  We want to ask them 10 questions and, if they get them all correct, they move to a shorter learning path.  If they cannot answer those 10 questions correctly they are  pushed to a learning path that contains additional courses. The idea is that learners with pre-exisitng product knowledge can have a shorter route to complete the product certification learning path. We have found that we can set an assessment test as the first milestone in the ALP, and grade that test, but there seems to be no way to use the grade achieved to direct the learning path.  I noticed there is an existing feature request, from a while back, in community for this functionality (See it here) so I have up voted it!  Please share if you have any ideas on this.

Hi @charles.zimmerman thanks for your comments as well.  Looks like we may have to push this feature request up the priority pile!