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jerm625
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March 29, 2012
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Backwards Navigation When Reviewing Quiz Questions

  • March 29, 2012
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I have discovered from some students that they can cheat on my quiz. They take the quiz, review their answers and make note of the correct answers, then either drag the navigation slider backwards or click the Back button to return to the beginning of the quiz. This resets their original answers and allows them to retake the quiz with the answers they took from their notes.

The quiz is set up to allow multiple attempts, but I assume they should be starting over with each attempt. My quiz questions are randomized from a test pool, so hopefully they do not see the same questions again and not in the same order. However, by cheating in this way, they can take the same questions in the same order.

Is there anyway to limit backwards movement when reviewing the quiz?

I have turned off backwards movement while they are taking the quiz, but this setting is turned off when they start reviewing the quiz.

I am using Captivate 5.

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RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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March 30, 2012

It would appear that you do not understand how Captivate quizzes work.

Your interpretation of what costitutes 'cheating' might be seen as a little harsh. If you've set the quiz up to show feedback captions telling the user what the correct answer was, then there is nothing to prevent users from noting down these answers.  If you've allowed multiple attempts on the same quiz, then you've given them the opportunity to use those noted answers.

Ask yourself:  In what quiz did the instructor give me the answers WHILE I was doing the quiz?  How many attempts was I allowed in a single session?  If you want your quiz to be more like a typical classroom quiz, don't provide feedback until after the quiz, and allow only ONE attempt.

If you have allowed multiple attempts on the quiz, and enabled the Retake Quiz button, then when students get to the Quiz Results slide they will be able to click this button to wipe out their previous answers and perform a new attempt.  This attempt WILL begin from the first quiz question or scored object in the movie.

Using question pools to randomise quiz questions will NOT give you a different set of questions from the pools when the user is doing their second or third attempt initiated from the Retake Quiz button.  The selection of randomised questions happens when the project is relaunched entirely.  Once these questions have been selected for display to end users, the same questions will be used for that session.

If a user clicks the Review Quiz button after any attempt, they will be unable to perform a new attempt on that quiz until they relaunch the lesson again.  Also, if the user jumps outside the Quiz Scope by navigating back to any slide before the first scored object or quiz question, they will be unable to reattempt the quiz until relaunch.

There are some measures you can take to reduce what you see as 'cheating':

  • Disable backward movement in Quiz Settings.  This will remove the Back button. It will also disable backward movement during Review Quiz.  I cannot see a downside to that really since they can Reviw the Quiz as many times as they want before exiting the lesson.
  • Hide the playbar during the quiz using Advanced Actions that manipulate the System Variable that controls visibility of the playbar.
  • Place the Retake Quiz button on top of the Review Quiz button.
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jerm625Author
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March 30, 2012

Thanks for the information. Yes I have set the quiz up to allow users to review their answers. Yes I assume they will take notes on the answers, but I have not enabled the Retake Quiz button. Once they get to the results page and choose to review their answers, I assumed (incorrectly) that their answers would be locked and they would not be able to change the answers or results for their attempt.

My instructions tell them to relaunch the training, go through it again, and then take the quiz again. With the questions and answers being randomized, I was hoping that their notes (question 1 answer is B - question 2 answer is C - etc.) would not be very helpful to them and they would put effort into taking notes from the training to help them on the test instead.

You said the following:

"If a user clicks the Review Quiz button after any attempt, they will be unable to perform a new attempt on that quiz until they relaunch the lesson again.  Also, if the user jumps outside the Quiz Scope by navigating back to any slide before the first scored object or quiz question, they will be unable to reattempt the quiz until relaunch."

I have tested this out, launching the training from the LMS, and it is not correct. I can go through the quiz, review my results, drag the slider or click the back button to the beginning of the quiz, and take the quiz again.

I have disabled backwards movement during the quiz, but once you start reviewing a quiz, backwards movement is once again enabled via the slider or back button.

I can hide the playbar and navigation controls, but when you get to the review, the navigation controls remain hidden and you cannot advance through the questions to see the results. I thought of adding a separate Forward button on the quiz question slides to allow the user to go forward as they review the slides, but you cannot add buttons or clickboxes to question slides.

I could certainly turn off the review functionality, but I think it is valuable information to the student. I need to allow them to retake the quiz, as my boss has set a very high bar (100% passing score) on the quiz.

Does anyone have any other ideas?

By the way, after typing up this response, I started doing some playing around, and I figured out a fix. I turn off the navigation controls before the quiz and enable the Skip button on each question slide. With the navigation off, the user can answer the questions and click Submit. Then when reviewing the answers, they can navigate forward by clicking Skip. They can no longer navigate backwards through the quiz and training material.

RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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March 30, 2012

If you want to re-enable the playbar at any point, just use the On Slide Enter action to set the system variable back to 1.

Your ability to

It sounds like you really need to be giving the user only one attempt at the quiz in Captivate and forcing them to reload the module from the LMS for each new attempt.  That would remove the issue with circumventing the quiz review lock by scrubbing the playbar and it would also mean that you had a better chance of them getting different randomised quiz questions.

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