Advanced Actions in a Quiz/Survey

First, the drop-down was a great idea, thank you!  I'm shaking the rust and re-familiarizing myself with Captivate, so that was a great reminder.  It worked great, until it didn't.  I had each drop-down selection targeting an individualized Likert survey slide for each of the 26 instructors (which required an equal number of associations in an Advanced Action).  This was going well until I had to create a second round of the same (for when there's more than 1 trainer for a class, so they can each have their own feedback).  Because of the excessive number of checks the file has to do because of the number of associations, and the now 119 slides... the file would freeze when run (or at least operate so slow it might as well have frozen).

I also tried a drop-down -> single target Likert with variables customizing the survey slide, but when I would try to add the $$v_trainer$$ manually (it wouldn't do it with the function), it would create a large gap between the questions on the page containing 6 or so Likert questions to rank.  I've had a few things almost work, but I'm not getting it to quite cooperate.

You were a big help and it's much appreciated.  If there's anything else that you can recommend, I'm all about learning.  Hopefully my descriptions weren't too arduous and nonsensical!

My apologies, I completely overlooked the 2 links you provided (I thought it was a Signature), I will definitely take a look and see if they can point me in the right direction. 

A bit on my train of thought - I just meant the quiz slides in general are very strict, meaning you usually can't add or remove most of the elements.  But the assignment of variables is an option on the individual answers on the MCQ, so I thought I was working in the confines of those strict rules.  Technically I am, but probably not quite in the right way.

I do think you may have already helped me in a big way, assuming I can make a non-Quiz slide with a drop-down menu that sets variables, and that will also report to the LMS.  It won't be the variable itself reporting to the LMS, but more it directing the survey taker to the question specific to the instructor.

**Having given the first link you sent a quick once-over, I think that it might have another possible solution/variation that will meet the same goal, so thank you!

It's because Quiz slides have such strict rules that I was trying it with the MCQ.  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't a Quiz slide that has a dropdown interaction, right?  Closest thing I found was on the Sequence question in lieu of drag-and-drop.

The main reason for the attempt at MCQ use was this:  when a report is pulled off the LMS, we want to have a way to quickly parse out instructor-specific data based on their supervisor's request (3 different facilities).  To make this easier, we got down to 2 possibilities.

Report possibility based on MCQ, creating a "header" (by making their name the first answer) at the top of the instructor's section of questions:

Instructor's name?:  Bob Smith

Achieved the goals of the class: Agree

Presented in a professional manner: Somewhat Agree

Etc

Report possibility using a non-Quiz slide, thereby not showing in the report unless we add their name to each version of the subsequent questions:

Bob Smith achieved the goals of the class

Bob Smith presented in a processional manner

Etc

Mostly the second was dismissed because of the aesthetic redundancy for the people taking the survey.  I wonder though...  if I were to make a non-Quiz slide using the drop-down you proposed (that toggles variables), I have an option to report it (Properties:  Include in Quiz), ya?  I don't know if what I'm thinking will work, and I won't have access to my work stuff until Monday, but I think I might be able to incorporate your suggestion with a little twist.

I'll report back after I've tinkered with it Monday and let you know how it pans out!