Captivate quizz and a list of possible keywords as answers

I had read your question last night, but wanted to reflect a little bit. Sorry but my conclusion is similar to Rod's. I'm not sure at all if this will be possible without using programming in JS.

You could use Text Entry Boxes, validated, each with a score of 1 point. You didn't tell how many answers you'll allow the user to give? Here are the issues:

• If you add only 5 TEB's, the maximum score for the TEB's will indeed be 5 points. That score will automatically be included in the system variables and is not flexible.
• A big problem is that the user could enter twice the same answer, which means that he gets 2 points for one answer, something you certainly do not want.
• If you do not set the TEB's to validate, and use one elaborate conditional action after all answers have been entered, there is no way to have partial scores - I mean a score below 5 points -  because it will be a black-white score (5 or 0).
• I thought about showing only one TEB, validate it, then show another one etc... That way it would be possible to stop showing TEB's when the max score has been reached. Since the quizzing system variables are fixed when starting that is not a solution neither.
• Another idea was to use Branch aware, the only way to have dynamic quizzing system variables: this would mean however that you can have only one TEB per slide, you can make it look like the previous solution: one TEB appears after the first one has been answered. That is the only possible scenario that could work, just my Captivate intuition talking.

You could flip it around and ask it as a multiple choice single answer question "What do the following islands have in common with one another?" and then list the five below the question stem. The correct answer would be "These islands are all located in the Foxe Basin (Nunavut, Canada)." Then just come up with three or four distractors that are incorrect but plausible.

It might not be possible to get exactly what you want.

If you want the learner to be entering these answers as text rather than just selecting them from checkboxes or similar, then normal quiz slides won't work because the only type that would allow learners to enter answers in multiple text entry boxes on the same slide is the Fill In The Blanks type quiz question. But these quiz slides only give you a full score for getting everything correct, or zero score for getting anything wrong.

You could just add five text entry boxes to a normal slide and tell the learners to enter their five answers into these text boxes. You could assign each TEB to report to the quiz with a 1 point score.  But then the problem becomes that you have to be able to validate the TEB answers in such a way that an answer entered in one of the TEBs cannot be entered again as a correct answer in any of the others.  That's not possible to do with the standard TEB validation.  It is possible using some complex Conditional Actions, but then the problem is that you'd be relying on variables for the scoring, and you cannot assign user variables to a quiz score.

Are you getting the picture?  It's a sort of Catch-22.