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February 28, 2017
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Captivate Buttons for custom questions

  • February 28, 2017
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Hello, I am having trouble figuring out the functionality of the interactions (not interactive) buttons. I want to use the interactions to create quiz data for tracking, but I don't understand why it is not functioning intuitively. Here is a screenshot:

The yellow highlighted boxes appear when I click on the corresponding button....the red text does not appear when I click on its button. Here are my settings:

The 'failure' option is confusing me. Shouldn't it display the failure message? In my case it does not. Also, if I click on the 'no' button, the quiz counts it as a correct answer. What I want is for the three buttons to display the correct message, and for the quiz to correctly score and portray the number of questions.

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    I changed the title of your thread to avoid confusion: you are not talking about (learning) interactions but about using buttons for scoring.

    A button has two events: the Success event and the Last Attempt event. If you have Infinite attempts, the Last Attempt event is dimmed. That is what you have in the screenshot: only the Success event can trigger an action, in this case 'Show Button_4' and the playhead is released because you left the option 'Continue Playing the Project' checked. From the very small part of the Timeline I cannot detect what will happen, because the green timeline is for an interactive object which is not selected at this moment. You really have to read this article:

    Pausing Captivate's Timeline - Captivate blog

    The feedback messages have this meaning:

    • Success message will appear when you click ON the button
    • Failure message will appear when you click outside of the button

    With your setup, when the user clicks on that button, no message appears at all because it is a Success.

    Failure message will only appear when the user doesn't click on any button.

    More about events:

    Events and (advanced) Actions - Captivate blog

    As for the score: the score attached to a button will be added to the Quiz Total when the user clicks on the button.

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    raulc65058372Author
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    February 28, 2017

    Ok, that explained the functionality of the Success/Failure display. Thank you. Could not find that info anywhere. I will take a peek at the links you included.

    Lilybiri
    LilybiriCorrect answer
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    February 28, 2017

    I changed the title of your thread to avoid confusion: you are not talking about (learning) interactions but about using buttons for scoring.

    A button has two events: the Success event and the Last Attempt event. If you have Infinite attempts, the Last Attempt event is dimmed. That is what you have in the screenshot: only the Success event can trigger an action, in this case 'Show Button_4' and the playhead is released because you left the option 'Continue Playing the Project' checked. From the very small part of the Timeline I cannot detect what will happen, because the green timeline is for an interactive object which is not selected at this moment. You really have to read this article:

    Pausing Captivate's Timeline - Captivate blog

    The feedback messages have this meaning:

    • Success message will appear when you click ON the button
    • Failure message will appear when you click outside of the button

    With your setup, when the user clicks on that button, no message appears at all because it is a Success.

    Failure message will only appear when the user doesn't click on any button.

    More about events:

    Events and (advanced) Actions - Captivate blog

    As for the score: the score attached to a button will be added to the Quiz Total when the user clicks on the button.

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