branching from within quiz

Thank You! Duplication is exactly what I did this time and it worked perfectly. I do appreciate your other suggestion, and I look forward to implementing that method in the future as well.
regards,
susanne

The main problem with branching back to a single "failed" question is that Captivate doesn't reset the # of attempts with each visit.

When they get back to the failed slide a second time, they will only have one chance to get it right. If they get it wrong, Captivate says "Sorry, you already failed this question before so you're already over the maximum # of attempts".

The user will then forever be stuck in a loop of having to go back to the topic just to get another crack at moving past the question.

With that in mind, duplication is probably your best bet if you want to show the full topic slide and don't want to frustrate your users. Create a full set of topics/questions for each time you want the user to be able to "fail". However, the branching will be a bear to manage, and scoring will be thrown off by all the "retry" questions.

Given that, I'd suggest using the Failure Levels feature on the Question Properties dialog (on the Options tab) instead of branching.

You can show a "Sorry, Try Again" message on the first error, then increasingly descriptive hints on subsequent errors. The hints can be a copy/paste from the topic slide if you desire, or just some leading information.

You get different captions for each attempt, each with their own style, content and formatting, so you can easily approximate the basic idea you're looking for without massively leaving the question slide, and thus inflating your workload severely.

Best of luck in whichever path you choose,
John