Captivate rounding quiz results

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January 11, 2010
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I think Captivate (4.0) is rounding my quiz results. I have a project with 26 questions. Each question is worth 1 point. The project’s Quiz Settings are 85% or above to pass. Pass Fail options are set as follows: If Passing Grade = jump to a “You have passed” slide. If Failing Grade = jump to a “You have failed” slide. If the learner gets 22 questions correct (a score of 84.6), Captivate reports a score of 85%, but jumps to the “You have failed” slide.

In addition, reporting is enabled for SCORM 1.2. I am using CHEX LMS. Mastery score is set to 85% in Captivate. If the learner answers 22 questions correctly (a score of 84.6), the LMS displays 85% and “Incomplete.”

Is there a way to keep Captivate from rounding the score? Other suggestions?

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Lilybiri

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Hello,

I think it is possible to avoid the rounding up by adapting your points. I do not think you can avoid this rounding up, as far as I know. If you have 25 questions, attach 4 points to each question. Of course 26 is a difficult number: here you will have to look if all questions should indeed have the same weight?

For the question about the LMS, what are the settings in the Manifest? If 84.6% is below the Mastery score, and you allow more than one attempt at the quiz, it is logical that it is reported Incomplete because the number of attempts are not all been taken. Only when the attempts have all been taken, the LMS will report Complete. Of course not all LMS's are reacting in the same manner, that is why I'm asking about the settings in the Manifest.

Lilybiri

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RobinsQuestAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thanks for your quick response. I believe that the complete/incomplete score is based on the learner’s score and not # of attempts. I don’t see any # of attempts in the manifest file - I would welcome some additional info about this setting.

Here is what I have found by doing some testing with the mastery scores.

Test 1: The mastery score is 85%. Learner answers 22 of 26 questions correctly (84.6%). Score is 85% and Incomplete. Learner answers 23 of 26 questions correctly. The score is 88% and Completed.

Test 2: The mastery score is 84%. Learner answers 22 of 26 questions correctly (84.6%). LMS displays 85% and Completed.

It just seems strange to me that Captivate and the LMS both report the 84.6% score as 85%, but yet it seems that the LMS still considers the 84.6 when determining Completed/Not Complete.

Thanks for verifying for me that there is no way to control the rounding. This is my first SCORM/LMS/Captivate course. In future courses, I will be careful to consider #of questions/points for scoring.

Lilybiri

Legend

Hello,

Having found out a lot by trial and error too, I'll try to explain the way LMS (here a Blackboard based one) is 'thinking'. It considers the exact number for evaluating the Fail/Pass. If a user passes, the assessment is directly marked as Complete, which means that there is no possibility (for our LMS always) for the user to improve his score even if he has not exhausted the attempts permitted in the Quiz Preferences (not in the Manifest as you pointed out).

If a user fails and has not yet used all possible attempts, the assessment will be marked as Incomplete (which is the case for your first example). The user can take the assessment again until the allowed number of attempts is reached (there is a system variable for attempts). When he has finished all the attempts the result will be marked Complete, even if he failed for all the attempts.

Is this clearing up the situation or just making it more confuse? I'm not a native English speaker, sorry.

Lilybiri

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