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annec27374237
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December 6, 2015
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digital timer widget not jumping to next page after 0

  • December 6, 2015
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Hi everyone -

I've created a couple of quizzes in Captivate 8. Each quiz has timed questions. I'm using the Digital Timer widget (initially tried to use the timer in the quiz properties box, but it didn't work at all). I placed the widget on each question slide.

For the quiz I'm working on now, the learner has 30 seconds to answer each multiple-choice question, and then click Submit.

The widget counts down to zero and jumps to the next screen, which is exactly what I want it to do. But if I click an answer and then click Submit, it continues to count down and doesn't allow me to move to the next slide until the timer gets to 0.

This question was asked and not answered in October. A suggestion then was to hide the timer. I don't want the timer hidden - I want the learner to see it. zz

Incidentally, this is a non-scored quiz. I've marked each question "Survey" in the properties box. In case that makes a difference.

Help?

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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December 7, 2015

Could you point to the thread that was not answered? Maybe I suggested to hide the timer when clicking on Submit. That doesn't mean that they don't see the timer before clicking the Submit button.  I am also a bit wondering why you choose 'Survey'? Do you not want the user to see if the answer is correct or not? Survey means there is no correct answer at all.

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annec27374237Author
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December 7, 2015

Hi. That thread is here:

How do I stop the timer widget?

1. And yes - I chose Survey because there is no correct answer. The learner writes a response to a short video; later, they learn how to evaluate responses for their effectiveness, but this process is not gradable. I don't understand about hiding the widget ... ?

2. Another question (I submitted this already, but haven't had a response): Is it possible to save the contents of a text entry box to a file, such as Text or Word? I'd like to be able to collect the responses the learners write and have them download them. What do you think?

Thanks!

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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December 8, 2015

The question slide has a pausing point (default is 1.5secs). When you click on the Submit button, after the two-step process (first the Feedback appears, user has to press Y or click on the slide for the second step), the action specified in Success is executed. I suggested in the other thread to create an action for the Success event, that hides the Timer widget (using its ID) and goes to the next slide.

As for your second question: if you use a LMS, the answers (associated variable with TEB) automatically shows up in the LMS. In other cases you'll have to use JS to get the variables out of Captivate, cannot help you with that. Jim Leichliter used to have a great widget to export them to a (Google) spreadsheet, but it was SWF only and he is out of business.

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