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December 2, 2011
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Help Deactivating Skip and Back Buttons During 1st Quiz Attempt

  • December 2, 2011
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I am creating a learning module.  Within the module are quiz questions.  I want to gray out the Skip and Back buttons as the users take the quiz.  After they take they take the quiz, they have the option to view their results.  I want the the Skip and Back buttons to become active at this point.  I had this functionality working with the Skip button until I published my project.  Now it isn't working anywhere.

When it was working I did this:

Create a Variable:

-       Project > Variables

o   Click ‘Add New’

o   Type: User

o   Name: QuizTaken

o   Value: 0

o   Click Close

Create an Action

-       Project > Advanced Actions

-       Action Type > Conditional Actions

-       Action Name “QuizSkipA”

-       Press the “+” sign

o   “Untitled” will turn blue. You can click on it to rename.  I renamed “QuizSkipA”

Write the IF statement

-       Perform Action if: All Conditions are True

-       Click in the first grid box under the word “perform” so it turns Red

-       Click the Variable dropdown that appears – select Variable

-       Select QuizSkipA

-       Click the Comparison Operator dropdown and select “Greater or Equal to”

-       Select the Variable dropdown and select “Literal”

-       Type in 1

-       Red box will turn Green

Write the Action

-       Under Actions, click in the first box so it turns Red

-       Click the Select Action dropdown and choose “Go to Next Slide”

-       The Red box will turn Green

-       Click Save

-       Click Close

Add the Action to the slide

-       Click on the first Quiz Slide

-       Find the Actions Group on the Quiz Properties Tab

-       On Success: Execute Advanced Actions

-       Script: QuizSkipA

AnAny ideas on how to get this working again will be greatly appreciated!!

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dblancquaert
Participating Frequently
December 6, 2011

I recently needed this same functionality.

The most difficult issue was the hiding of the back and skip buttons If you know how to disable them I would like to learn how :-).

Because you cannot make them invisible, you can define them as transparent buttons, and place an image of the button on the spot where the transparent buttons are.

Define an advanced action that tracks the quiz completion, and activate the option 'on enter' of the results slide.

Define a conditional action that checks the quiz completion, and makes the invisible images visible when the quiz is complete. I used one action for 20 slides. Attach the conditional action to every Question slide.

FYI, this works in Captivate 5 and 5.5.

If you need more info, do not hesitate to contact me.

mrevaleAuthor
Participant
December 6, 2011

When you make the back and skip buttons transparent, you can still hover over the image that the button is replaced with (hover state appears active).  How do you combat this?

dblancquaert
Participating Frequently
December 6, 2011

For the Skip button, you can set the quiz preferences - Required to "Answer All". In that case the hover is disabled.

For the Back button I can offer no solution, because it was not required in my case. Furthermore, I do not see why it is necessary to go back when reviewing your answers.