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josCanberra
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October 7, 2016
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Free answer text entry in quiz? (No set correct response)

  • October 7, 2016
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Is it possible to have a free response answer and have it score in the quiz?  I want the text entry box to be reported in Moodle LMS but don't want to have a set response as correct. 

Thanks for any help.  Cheers, Jo

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    Correct answer RodWard

    Thanks for your reply Rod, I will try out the Moodle forums re scorm package reporting. 

    Will the scorm compliant elearning module created by Captivate capture a free response, eg. in TEB without validation, without scoring that can be reviewed/ reported later in the LMS (which I will look at formatting of that reporting through Moodle)?

    Cheers, Jo


    Each LMS is different in how it handles or displays the SCORM data.

    Captivate's modules just send the SCORM data to the LMS.  What it does with it after that is determined by the way the LMS is designed.

    If you want to capture the learner's opinion with no correct or incorrect answers to validate, try using Survey questions.

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    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    October 7, 2016

    If you have no idea what the learner would enter in the text entry box, how would you specify a correct answer beforehand so that your course module could evaluate whether or not it was correct?

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    josCanberraAuthor
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    October 7, 2016

    Hi Rod

    The learning module is asking the learner what they already know on a topic and what they hope to learn, it is free response as opposed to right or wrong.  I wanted this recorded for teacher in reporting to review in LMS and thought that it was only through graded quiz this could be achieved.  After trolling of these forums I found 'Capturing Short answer from Captivate 9 in Connect' and saw your response about someone using Survey as opposed to Graded to record free response.  I just tried it and the following pic shows the report in LMS which doesn't have the response that was typed in response to "What do you already know?"

      

    Any ideas?

    Cheers, Jo

       

        

    Lilybiri
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    October 7, 2016

    Maybe I understand the question differently from Rod? You want to have an entry in the TEB, but it doesn't matter which entry if it is not empty? If it is not empty you want to have a score? There are some ways to do that. Here is one idea:

    • Do not validate the TEB, you'll use the Success action (if you do not validate that is the only event) to trigger a conditional advanced action.
    • With that advanced action you'll test if the associated variable to the TEB is not empty (have a look at this old blog post: Where is Null? - Captivate blog )
    • Have two Next buttons ready that are hidden in output: the first one 'Bt_Correct)' has a score attached to it, the second one has no 'Btn_Wrong' has no score. The pausing point of the two buttons can be the same but needs to be later than the pause of the TEB.
    • The conditional action will show one of those two buttons. You have to hide the default playbar (and navigation by TOC) to make a click on that Next button compulsory for the user.
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