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February 18, 2016
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Can a branched quiz exceed 100 points in total?

  • February 18, 2016
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Hi

I have a module where at the beginning the user selects their role, sales or customer service.

If the user clicks sale it assigns a '1' to a variable and then continues. The first 5 or so slides are relevant to both job roles.

When it gets to slide six, there's an advanced action on the 'next' button that recognises if that variable holds a '1' if it does it continues to the next slide into the sales of things. If it doesn't it jumps to a later slide so the user goes through the customer services slides.

For some reason the branching window isn't picking this up, not sure if it's because it's an Advanced Action??

There's one true or false question for the sales branch

4 true or false questions in the customer service side.

Sales users will answer one question and get 100 points

Customer service will need to answer 4 and in total get 100 points (25 for each question).

But captivate won't let me publish because the totals are obviously 200 even though in reality it should just be 100 for each 'branch'.

My work around is to set the pass mark at 50, and have the single sales question reward 50 points and the 4 customer service questions reward 50 in total.

But just wondered if I'm missing something?

Another alternative would be to hide the relevant slides and publish two separate modules, but would prefer to keep everything contained in one.

Any ideas?

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arashmazAuthor
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February 18, 2016

Thanks Lilybiri.

I'll have a look, I think the first issue is that Captivate isn't picking up the branching in the window, is this something you can create or is captivate supposed to work it out based on the actions you have set?

Lilybiri
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February 18, 2016

With Branch aware, Captivate's quizzing system variables become 'dynamic'. Some examples:

  • cpQuizInfoPointsscored will be populated only by the scores of the questions+scored objects visited and tried by the user, not those on slides he never visits
  • cpQuizInfoTotalQuizPoints will be calculated from the maximum scores possible only for those same visited slides
  • cpInfoPercentage is calculated from the two previous variables.

This means if the user only visits that unique T/F question for sales person and succeeds, he gets 100pt in cpQuizInfoPointsscored, the maximum in cpQuizInfoTotalQuizPoints is also 100 and the percentage will be 100%.

If the user only visits the 4 questions for Customer service and fails one of them, cpQuizInfoPointsscored will be 75, cpQuizInfoTotalQuizPoints will be 75 and cpInfoPercentage 75%.

Same for number of correct questions, total number of questions which are other fields on the score slide.

For most LMS's it is better to report % than score (just a tip).

Lilybiri
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February 18, 2016

I think you are missing the Branch aware feature. Have a look at this article:

Branch Aware Quiz - Captivate blog