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canonsburg
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July 23, 2008
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Captivate 3 quiz back and skip buttons making me crazy

  • July 23, 2008
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I'm fairly new to Captivate 3,but already I don't like it. Quizzes in particular are either broken or they don't behave intuitively. Just using a wizard-generated quiz, the "skip" button does skip questions, but often (not always) when I go back to answer the question, it gives me a message about not fully answering the question, which is fine, but at the same time, it disables all quiz interfaces and the "submit" button so I cannot answer the question. Also, if I answer a question, hit the back button and then return to the question, I'm told I already answered the question and the interface is disabled. I can "skip" at this point (which isn't intuitive as a "click anywhere to continue," but whatever) but sometimes "skip" then disables all the remaining questions with that same "you didn't answer this question completely" nonsense, even questions it hadn't previously displayed at all! Remember, I haven't modified this quiz at all; it's what the wizard built for me.

Am I missing something, or are quizzes just buggy to broken?
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    Anonymous
    September 19, 2008
    I've played with this a bit just now and have a workaround.

    Make the first slide in your presentation a survey quiz slide. Delete all the quiz captions you can. Captivate will not allow you to delete certain captions and buttons nor will it allow you to force them behind other objects, so you must reduce these to the smallest possible size, change the font color to match your background and/or hide them behind your navigation bar.
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    Anonymous
    September 19, 2008
    canonsburg, several of us have discovered that if the user navigates backward anytime prior to reaching the first quiz slide, then all the quiz slides become disabled and display the INCOMPLETE message even though the user has yet to visit any of the quiz slides. This is a MAJOR BUG.
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    Anonymous
    July 25, 2008
    A common problem area. I think that Adobe could have better default settings for this problem. There are solutions and it's all about setup here.

    Go to the Quiz Preference from the Quiz Menubar and select Settings and then use the REQUIRED setting to set user Must Answer ALL Questions to continue

    On the actual Quiz Slide go to settings and the Options Tab.
    Select -- Graded - There are right and wrong answers

    You can play around with these settings a bit, but this should set you straight.

    Once you figure out what you want, make a template from scratch (don't use an existing presentation because the deleted items get orphaned inside the CP file - they are working on that fix for the next version of Captivate if all goes well). Your blank template should have the following elements:

    You'll need to experiment with on Success Go to Slide X
    on failure Go to Slide Y

    I generally set the Quiz Settings to end on the Quiz Review Slide for Pass or Fail, but the actual Quiz Slide or Quiz Pool can be set to go where you want it to go.

    General Cover Slide if you use one - name it Cover
    General END slide if you use one - name it END
    Guiz Pools or Quiz types that you use
    Settings for the Quiz module per the above
    Quiz Summary at end of presentation
    Default fonts
    Default button styles if you use buttons
    default progress bar if you use progress bars
    Etc.

    Basically a blank slide set with your setups for buttons, navigation, color schemes, Etc. and then you are good to go.

    As you make new presentations from the template and you spot things that you like to have, then just add them to the master template and it will get smarter for the next one. Your Quiz style will be all set and defaulted to your needs.

    ENJOY!

    Joe C.

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