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ibbzjo
ibbzjo
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September 3, 2010
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Can I add bonus points to cpQuizInfoPointsscored in Captivate 5?

  • September 3, 2010
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Hi All

I am creating a completely bespoke quiz/interactive movie senario in Captivate 5. I have managed to work out how to take advantage of advanced actions and user variables to create a series of different question types and partial scoring systems (thanks Lilybiri for some great posts that guided me in the right direction).

I have hit a problem with the last question in the quiz and was hoping someone might be able to give me nudge in the right direction.

Basically i needed to create a bespoke 'sequence' question as follows:

----------------------------------------bespoke sequence question slide------------------------------------------------------------------------

##########    Interactive Handover #################


V/O: It is 4.30pm as the Junior Doctor you now need to handover the patient as your shift finishes at 5pm. Who should you handover to (choose 5 answers from the list below)? and For those that you need to contact and provide SBAR handover to consider why you are giving this order of priority.


a)    The bed manager
b)    Critical Care Outreach
c)    The Consultant whose care the patient is under
d)    The interventional Radiologist
e)    The junior doctor covering the ward from 5pm
f)    The ward nurse looking after the patient
g)    The gastro-enterologist on call for endoscopy

----------------------------------------bespoke sequence question slide END------------------------------------------------------------------------

Each answer has a corresponding score and the top 2 answers have an additional 2 bonus points added if positioned 1st or 2nd in the list.

                                                  PRIORITY        SCORE

a)    The bed manager                         0         
b)    Critical Care Outreach                  1               4 (2+ 2 points for position 1-2)
c)    The Consultant                             2              4 (2+ 2 points for position 1-2)
d)    The interventional Radiologist        3               2 points irrespective of priority
e)    The junior doctor covering             4               2 points irrespective of priority
f)     The ward nurse                            5               2 points irrespective of priority
g)    The gastro-enterologist o/c           0


Give total out of 14

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**************** My Solution So Far******************************

I have manage to work out a pretty good solution to the problem using advanced actions and user variables. I couldnt work out how to create a drag and drop solution like the in built Captivate sequence question so used text captions and click boxes instead.  Basically when you click an A to G option in the list on the left it disappears and reappears in the correct order order on the right, it also increments my variable vOrder by one so that it knows what order to put the next item in the list.

I have 2 points assigned to each of the correct answers using the reporting panel ( so that I can increment cpTotalpointsscored accordingly). I am also using my own variable, vTotalscore4 to capture the scores and i have even got an advanced action that assigns the bonus points to vTotalscore4 (and this works fine)

In short i have worked out a solution that works but my problem lies in that I need to work out how to increment the Captivate quiz variable cpQuizInfoPointsscored with the addition 2 bonus points when the user gets the order right. Is this possible? or should i be looking at how to display my custom variables on the results slide instead?  Ultimately i want to output the application as SCORM compatible and so would prefer to use Captivate variables if possible to minimise any problems i might face.

Its probably worth mentioning that wheres I am a pretty experienced web / multimedia developer, this is my first attempt at a Captivate e-learning project and so i might be missing something obvious?

If anyone could guide me in the right direction with this I would really appreciate it.

best regards

Ibbz

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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September 3, 2010

Hello and welcome to this CP- forum,

Do think that you will not be amazed that I'm answering. If my articles (think you were reffering to them?) have been of any help, this brightens my day really.

It is an issue that we cannot change the Quiz system variables easily. Just an idea, have not the time now to work it out (could perhaps use this for another article): add a button or a click box that is initially invisible and attach the score of 2 points to this interactive object. If the sequence is OK, add the statement to make this button or CB visible and show an instruction (Text caption that is also initially invisible) to click on the button/CB. With this click the 2 points will be added to the Quiz variable. If the sequence is wrong, just let the movie go on.

Does this make sense? My Advanced actions intuition tells me that it could be possible that way.

Lilybiri

PS: indeed dragging questions are an issue.

ibbzjo
ibbzjoAuthor
Participant
September 4, 2010

Hi Lilybiri

Thanks for the welcome and the reply. Yes I was refering to your articles, they were a great help even though they didnt give me a complete answer to the problem I was trying to solve, they certainly showed me what was possible and how i should approach finding a solution. Like i said this is my first attempt at Captivate quiz, on a project where all of the question slides are bespoke and most have 4 questions per slide. To complicate things further the quiz is actually a seemless interactive movie with questions that appear at certain stages of the senario. The senario changes direction based on what the user scores at certain stages. I realise now that this was probably a bit of a complicated first project, but the good news is I have almost cracked it.  So please keep up the good work Lilybiri, I dont think I could have gotten this far without you :-)

Thanks for the suggested work around, this sounds like a really good compromise and yes it makes sense. I think I should be able to get this solution working using advanced actions and even make it look like its purposely built this way ;-) . I will let you know how I get on with it and will post my results.

I agree this would make a good article, along with an article on multiple questions per slide and bespoke multiple choice/ multi-answer questions. I have worked out solutions for these and would be happy to share the solutions.

best regards

Ibbz

ps( i feel silly asking this but how do i write out / display a user variable e.g ( vTotalscore) )

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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September 5, 2010

Hello,

About your PS question, perhaps this last, basic article I wrte (should have written it before the others, but I am the kind of reader sometimes starting at the end of a book  ) gives you an answer:

Use the power of variables - without advanced actions

I would be glad to have a look at your example, it saves some time to have examples of other users to try to write out an article. Myself I'm teaching rather specialized things like soil mechanics and project management for building sites, so examples from my courses are not very suitable for articles. If you could post it somewhere and send me a link (perhaps by private message)?
BTW out of curiosity, how did you find the articles? I do not have any idea if they are read or can be found easily. Users very rarely leave comments, and there are no statistics available. That is why I started publishing small tips in a posterous blog, and will also put links to the articles there (lilybiri.posterous.com).

Multiple questions per slide: different from what I treated? I have been asked also to try out a solution for displaying multiple answers given by the user together with the right answers. But couldn't find time yet.

Lilybiri

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