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December 4, 2007
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Grabbing Random Questions for the Question Pool

  • December 4, 2007
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Hi Everyone,

I am interested in exactly how the Random Question Pool works. Let's say there are 50 questions in the question pool and you want 10 questions from that question pool of 50. When you publish I understand you will get 10 random questions from the 50 questions. Then when you run your published project are you always going to get the same 10 questions or another 10 of the 50 pooled questions everytime your run that same published project? Or do you have to publish again, calling the quiz another name to get another 10 of 50 questions from the question pool? I appreciate the help on this.
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Captiv8r
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December 5, 2007
Hi slewis6337

It is my understanding that each time you display the Captivate output, you see a totally random question. So if your question pool contains 50 questions, each time your Captivate output presents the random question and draws from the pool, it is truly drawing a totally random question.

I do believe that Captivate does keep track of which questions have been used in the pool. To test this, try creating a pool containing three questions. Then create four random question slides that point at the pool. Then try running the Captivate. You should see that as random question number four is encountered, the screen goes totally gray. This is happening because you have exhausted the question pool.

Sincerely... Rick
Participating Frequently
December 6, 2007
Thanks Rick for your advice. I think I have to try out the different random question combinations and see what it does. Cool website by the way. I was just thinking about that "Pay It Forward" movie and there you were mentioning it on your website. Great way to think. Appreciate it.

-Steve