Flagging and Reviewing Skipped Questions in Captivate 9

Could you please have a look at this blog post:

Custom Review - Captivate blog

I think the custom review slide could be used to add another state 'Skipped'. To see if a question has been skipped, you can use the quizzing system variable cpQuizInfoAnswerChoice. That variable remains empty when a question has been skipped, and you can use the On Enter action of the following slide to set the state to Skipped on the custom review slide. Of course you'll have to provide a way of navigating back. The answered questions will remain blocked, but I suspect the learner can answer the skipped questions. Do you want me to explore that path? Maybe another blog post, but it will be in the weekend, am on an accountancy deadline.

Unless you are using Submit All (which has all questions submitted at the same time by clicking one of the Submit All buttons) the user will be submitting each individual quiz question one at a time.  Captivate doesn't currently have any default option that is somewhere in between these two methods.

The problem with allowing the user to skip quiz questions using the default Skip button is that clicking this button doesn't give you any easy way to record data about which quiz questions were skipped so that you could potentially inform the user before they reached the Quiz Result slide.  The default Skip button triggers an immediate jump to the next slide.  Quiz questions only offer three events that you can use to trigger actions. 

One is the On Slide Enter event.  But at that point you don't know if the user will skip answering the slide or not.  The On Success event is only triggered if the user correctly answered the question.  And the On Last Attempt event is only fired if the user has attempted answers but failed all allowed attempts.  So there is no event triggered when the learner chooses to Skip the question via the default Skip button provided for quiz questions.

So the only real option left to you is to turn off the default Skip button (in the Quiz settings for each question) and instead insert a Smart Shape button that looks similar.  This gives you the option to trigger an Advanced Action when that button is clicked that not only moves to the next question but also saves data to a User Variable that tracks whether or not that quiz question was skipped.  This then allows you the option of having another Conditional Advanced Action on a slide just before the Quiz Result slide that would check whether all questions have been answered and then tell the user which ones they need to go back to. 

But in all honesty, even though this is technically possible with Captivate functionality, I wouldn't really see it as worth the trouble.  In my own courses I never give the users an option to skip quiz questions.  I remove the skip buttons from each question and turn on the option to display an Incomplete feedback caption if they make any attempt to navigate away from the question without answering.