How can you create an ordinary slide to function as a quiz slide?

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December 1, 2016
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Since I find the Captivate 9 quiz slides very limiting, I plan to create some of the quizzes as an ordinary Captivate slides (but the actions scripts would help me make it look more like a quiz) and I feel I can replicate the look and feel of this quizzes.

My question is about the reporting side. What are the variables that I must be aware of and is it possible to manage them (for that particular slide) so that the LMS I upload it to will treat those slides as quiz slides and track those that needed to be track on the quiz slide (eg. scores, attempts, accuracy, total questions, etc.) also be tracked on these slides as well as if they are just like a quiz slide? Any help is well appreciated, please. Thanks in advance.

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Correct answer Lilybiri

RodWard wrote:
Not possible using Advanced Actions. Quiz System Variables are READ ONLY.

Well, thanks anyway. This means I need to have a long talk with my boss.

I have quite a lot of articles on my blog about creating and reporting custom slides. You cannot change quizzing system variables with advanced nor shared actions. There is a possibility to use JavaScript however, another user once created such an example for me. However with learning interactions and standard interactive objects it is quite possible to create custom questions, that are much less limited than the default quiz questions. Do not forget that the D&D as well can be configured as a question and included in reporting. Here are two examples of a custom questions that go way beyond the default type of questions:

Custom Hotspot questions in Captivate 8 - Captivate blog

Custom Short Answer Question - Captivate blog

RodWard

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Interactive objects such as buttons, click boxes, text entry boxes etc can be set to Report to Quiz and have an Interaction ID. But these IDs will only apply to individual components of your faux quiz slides, NOT to the entire slide as would be the case for real quiz slides.

So although you CAN create your own quiz interaction slides and make them look more or less the same as Captivate quiz slides, you will not be able to make them truly behave exactly the same way. Getting meaningful reporting on these types of slides from the LMS will be somewhat problematic as well because you would need to sort out which specific component interactive objects (and their Interaction IDs) were supposed to belong to the same 'quiz slide'.

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rsramiroAuthor

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RodWard wrote:
Interactive objects such as buttons, click boxes, text entry boxes etc can be set to Report to Quiz and have an Interaction ID. But these IDs will only apply to individual components of your faux quiz slides, NOT to the entire slide as would be the case for real quiz slides.
So although you CAN create your own quiz interaction slides and make them look more or less the same as Captivate quiz slides, you will not be able to make them truly behave exactly the same way. Getting meaningful reporting on these types of slides from the LMS will be somewhat problematic as well because you would need to sort out which specific component interactive objects (and their Interaction IDs) were supposed to belong to the same 'quiz slide'.

I understand now.

is it still possible for me to do revisions or control quiz system variables using the advanced actions so I can still do my own quiz interaction. if i know what needs to be tracked (for example cpQuizInfoPointsscored)?

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rsramiroAuthor

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I have quite a lot of articles on my blog about creating and reporting custom slides. You cannot change quizzing system variables with advanced nor shared actions. There is a possibility to use JavaScript however, another user once created such an example for me. However with learning interactions and standard interactive objects it is quite possible to create custom questions, that are much less limited than the default quiz questions. Do not forget that the D&D as well can be configured as a question and included in reporting. Here are two examples of a custom questions that go way beyond the default type of questions:

Custom Hotspot questions in Captivate 8 - Captivate blog

Custom Short Answer Question - Captivate blog

Lilybiri wrote:
I have quite a lot of articles on my blog about creating and reporting custom slides. You cannot change quizzing system variables with advanced nor shared actions. There is a possibility to use JavaScript however, another user once created such an example for me. However with learning interactions and standard interactive objects it is quite possible to create custom questions, that are much less limited than the default quiz questions. Do not forget that the D&D as well can be configured as a question and included in reporting. Here are two examples of a custom questions that go way beyond the default type of questions:
Custom Hotspot questions in Captivate 8 - Captivate blog
Custom Short Answer Question - Captivate blog

though i feel this looks great... i think i did something like this before ( i did a custom slide for matching and multiple choice using custom variables and actions)... I tihnk you can only track scores on D&D if I include it as a quiz (please tell me if I'm wrong) ... my question remains... are the variables you used can be tracked by an LMS? does it do like a quiz slide that some of the variables (for a quiz slide) (attempts, scoring, percentage, etc.)? and will also include the other quiz slides scores and attempts as one sum report to the LMS?

If not, then I have to ask my boss on what is important to her? To have a quiz that can do whatever he wants (but has limited reporting to LMS) or a quiz slide that is easilly trackable on LMS on different levels (but has limitation on what she wanted it to do)?

I do hope future releases of captivate will have a more of this features (and flexibility). Can you share me the Javascript (and how can I include it to the slide)?

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