Create a storymap with self-assessment items for learners

Storymaps are great teaching tools for sharing content in map, text, audio, video, or image format. Today, however, storymaps don't offer ways to include interactive assessments. In this storymap, we demonstrate how to use a tool to generate code for use in storymap "embed" widgets. Embed widgets allow you to place live or linked (card-style) content from other websites.

For our purposes, there are two results of embedding content - live, inline embedded content or a linked, card-style embed. An inline embed (not available in sidecars) displays the self-assessment item in the storymap. Embeds within sidecars create a card-style block, that when clicked, opens the self-assessment item in a new browser window.

To create a self-assessment item for a storymap that you are creating:

1. Launch the  self-assessment item builder . You'll need to provide the question/prompt, four possible responses, and feedback for each response (if selected by the user). The builder tool will give you a long url. Copy the long url.
2. With the long URL, go to your storymap. Press the add content (+) icon while in the main stage ("inline" mode). Select the "Embed" widget. Paste the link.
3. Once the embed shows up, hover over the embedded content. Select the small (not card) layout.
4. Press the gear icon. We recommend turning on "Allow readers to directly interact...". This allows the learner to more quickly/clearly navigate your self-assessment item.

For example, the long URL for the above embed looks like:

https://quiz.geo.education/item.cgi?q=What%20do%20the%20smooth%20brownish%20parallel%20lines%20around%20the%20map%20represent%3F&r1=temperature&r1f=No&r2=topographic&r2f=yes&r3=water&r3f=no&r4=unicorns&r4f=no

The example below is a sidecar with a GeoInquiry map loaded onto the media panel and the self-assessment item added to the floating window on the left. The self-assessment item was added, just as above, using the Embed widget. In sidecars however, the self-assessment items are clickable "cards" that open a new window with the question.

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• This storymap can be found online at:  https://quiz.geo.education