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Captivate Quiz Question

  • November 20, 2012
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A client has asked for a Captivate quiz that can simulate a real-life online exam for a professional certification. The online exam allows users to mark questions for review, which basically lets them return to any question marked that way - and either keep the answer or change it - before finishing the exam and getting a final score.

Is there any way to mark questions for review in a Captivate quiz to achieve this functionality? I cannot seem to find anything on it.

I'm really just hoping someone can rule this in or out, so I don't waste hours trying to search for an answer or some weird, convoluted workaround. If it's not an option, I can live with that. And will submit it for consideration for a future enhancement to Captivate.

Thank you in advance!

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RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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November 20, 2012

Captivate 6 has introduced new quizzing functionality that includes the ability to delay submission of individual quiz questions until you are ready to Submit All in one go.  This gives you the ability to return to individual questions and change answers before hitting Submit All.  You could use Variables and Advanced Actions to allow the usermark certain questions they are unsure of and navigate back to them before Submitting.

So in theory, if you are on Captivate 6, what you want is possible.  I suggest you download a trial version of the app that see if it meets your requirements.

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November 20, 2012

Thanks for the response. I do have Captivate 6 already. I think what you're saying is that if I am sophisticated enough, I can author my own variable or advanced actions to get the desired effect. I was kinda hoping you wouldn't say that. But your answer tells me it's not a simple fix I can find in a dialog box. And that helps me move on and avoid wasting time on a feature that is not yet really there in Captivate. Thank you for that.

RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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November 20, 2012

I think you may be selling Captivate and your own abilities a bit short there.  What I've indicated is that you CAN get what you want within Cp's featureset.  Yes you would need to get your hands dirty learning about Variables and Advanced Actions.  But this certainly NOT something that requires the skills of a programmer, and is precisely the area of Captivate that unlocks SOOOO many other possibilities about what you can create with this tool. 

The sheer number of ways that a quiz assessment might need to be configured and customised means that there is never going to be "a dialog box" that allows you to do anything you want.  Captivate's designers have provided variables, Advanced Actions and Conditional Advanced Actions as a mechanism to allow course developers to build almost anything they might want (within reason).

Once you get into variables and actions, you may find them quite addictive.

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