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BradshawCG
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May 21, 2013
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Display short answer response on another slide

  • May 21, 2013
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I'm using Captivate 5.5.  I need to have the response the user types in for a short answer quiz slide appear on another slide later in the presentation. 

I tried putting in a text entry box in order to use a variable to have it display later, but I can't get the text to wrap within the text entry box.  The only option I found to get a text entry box that will wrap was to do a short answer quiz question.  However, now I can't assign a variable in order for the response to appear on a slide later in the presentation.

Any suggestions?

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    Hello and welcome to the forum,

    It could be done with a Short Answer question, but think it will be easier with a TEB as you tried. You have to enable 'Show scrollbar' in the Options accordion to have wrapping text.


    Another possiblity is using the TextArea widget that has also an associated variable. I explained its use in articles about creating a short answer Question slide:

    http://blog.lilybiri.com/widgets-and-custom-questions-part-2

    http://blog.lilybiri.com/extended-textarea-widget-more-functionality

    Lilybiri

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    Lilybiri
    LilybiriCorrect answer
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    May 21, 2013

    Hello and welcome to the forum,

    It could be done with a Short Answer question, but think it will be easier with a TEB as you tried. You have to enable 'Show scrollbar' in the Options accordion to have wrapping text.


    Another possiblity is using the TextArea widget that has also an associated variable. I explained its use in articles about creating a short answer Question slide:

    http://blog.lilybiri.com/widgets-and-custom-questions-part-2

    http://blog.lilybiri.com/extended-textarea-widget-more-functionality

    Lilybiri

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    Rachel_Toadstool
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    March 4, 2014

    Hi there,

    I know this discussion was started quite a while ago but I have the same thing I'm trying to do.

    Lilybiri, you say it can be done with a Short Answer question - would you mind telling me how I might be able to do this? I don't seem to be able to do it with the TextArea box because it isn't retaining the answers in the LMS, but I think it would work with the Short Answer question as long as I can display the answer later as well.

    Thanks in advance for any help

    R

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    March 4, 2014

    Each answer to a quiz question, whether correct or not, is stored in a reused quizzing system variable cpQuizInfoAnswerChoice. Because this var will be reused for the next question slide, you need to store it in a custom created user variable, by assigning an (advanced) action to an event after the question has been submitted (maybe On Enter for the next slide). Something like:

       Assign v_short with cpQuizInfoAnswerChoice

    Where v_short is that custom user variable. Later on you can display that answer by inserting v_short in a text container (shape or caption) using the X button in the Format accordion of that container.

    Lilybiri

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