How do I create negative scoring with remedial material?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
April 7, 2018
3 replies
476 views

My Friday-night-after-Adobe-Chat-Support-closes timing for problems stumping me is uncanny... and frustrating!

I've got a standalone Quiz project, 6 Question Pools (3-15 question slides in each), pulling random questions to make up 15 total for the quiz. I assigned each question a 6 point value and a 3 point Penalty value in the Properties. My plan has been for wrong answers to kick the student back to a remedial slide or two, bring them back using the Return to Quiz function, and take away 3 points for each wrong answer. So far the Question Slides, the Remediation, the 6 Point Value per Question all work, however, I'm not losing any points for wrong answers. I just scored 90/90 punching in all the wrong answers first to make sure the Remediation was up to snuff. (Sidenote: publishing in SCORM 2004 to support negative scoring, no issues there).

After digging deep into the User Guide, the only guidance I got reads, "the cpQuizInfoNegativepointsonCurrentQuestionSlide variable indicates whether a Question Slide is prepared for negative scoring." LOL, it's probably my ignorance of Variables but I feel like that guidance is not as helpful as it could be, especially since I waded through lots of screenshots of Advanced Actions they illustrated to find this information.

I'm somewhat familiar with Advanced Actions having created a Click-Reveal that requires the student to click all buttons to review material before showing the Next Button, but I'm not putting together how to accomplish negative scoring with a variable. Any help someone can provide would be much appreciated while I work the weekend, otherwise Adobe's gonna get an earful on Monday morning! Thanks!!

Chris Black

This topic has been closed for replies.

Eric Dumas

Community Expert

So would you recommend to create custom variables to track score and 'points' allocation?

RodWard

Community Expert

My understanding of how the Return to Quiz function works is that it ends up putting the learner in a loop until they get the quiz question correct. Each time you answer incorrectly, you get sent back to the remedial slide which then returns you to the quiz question and allocates an extra free attempt. Unless you create some extra Conditional Advanced Actions to break yourself out of the loop, you could pretty much go round in circles like this forever.

So, am I correct in assuming that in the end you HAD to eventually answer each quiz question correctly and that's why you ended up scoring 90 out of 90?

If so, I think you're going to find that the reason you are NOT seeing any subtraction of points is that Captivate believes you actually got all of these questions correct. When you turn are using the Return to Quiz and remediation functionality it doesn't see any of your incorrect answers because the extra free attempt you get awarded each time cancels out your previous incorrect attempt.

Lilybiri

Legend

Confirming Rod's answer at least if the inbuilt remedation feature is used. Once I designed a way to escape from the loop for a client, but have not much time at this moment. Sure that I didn't blog about that workaround. Sorry....

Eric Dumas

Community Expert

I am curious to see how that will be resolved.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded