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How to report a single score to an LMS for a Likert scale question in Captivate 9

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November 23, 2016
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I don't know whether you can help. I am trying to use partial scoring in a multiple answer MCQ to create a question where the answer is selected from the range: 0%, 10%, 20% ... 100%. This Likert scale is used to enable a user to record the degree of certainty they have in their answer.

For example: The Normal Conquest was in 1066. On a scale of 0% to 100%, how strongly do you agree with this statement?

I can use partial scoring to assign 10 to the 10% option, 20 to the 20% option, etc. The maximum score is 550 in this case. I can publish the project, provided I select the quiz preference to %, and the LMS reports a module score that is what is wanted. The problem is that because it has to be a multiple answer MCQ, a user could select more than one option, and this would introduce errors into our research. Can you think of a way to impose a single option selection?

Alternatively, you may have another solution to implement what I want to do. I have tried using the Likert survey question, but this does not seem to report the option selected to the LMS.

I should add that I want to use these Likert questions in a project that also includes question pools. Is this possible? NB the project is not responsive. !

Thank you for your help

Steve

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Correct answer Lilybiri

Indeed, second scenario would not be a good choice at all. I just wanted to offer as many ideas as possible, sincerely hope that the first scenario could work. You can use a multiplicator of 1point to end up with a real score, but beware, didn't double check.

stevej89009549Author

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Thank you Lilybiri for your prompt and considered reply. I think your first suggestion could satisfy my requirement. Unfortunately, I need to implement 50 Likert questions, so the second suggestion probably isn't viable.

LilybiriCorrect answer

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Indeed, second scenario would not be a good choice at all. I just wanted to offer as many ideas as possible, sincerely hope that the first scenario could work. You can use a multiplicator of 1point to end up with a real score, but beware, didn't double check.

Lilybiri

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I am confused by this question. The title and somewhere in the question mentions explicitly 'Liker Question', but in other places you talk about a MCQ, even with multiple correct answers? A Likert question has only radiobuttons, which means only one choice is possible. Moreover it cannot have a score, because it is never a graded question. Maybe you could clarify what you exactly want to ask in that Liker Question and if you want to report to a LMS, and what exactly?

stevej89009549Author

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I'm sorry if my question isn't clear. In simple terms what I want is a Likert question that does score (i.e. a graded Likert question). It may be that this cannot be done in Captivate right now. I've been trying to achieve this using the Multi-Answer quiz question with partial scoring.

What I want is a LIkert scale question with 11 options (0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90% and 100%). The learner is asked to report on how confidently they agree with a statement. If the learner is fairly confident and presses the 90% radio button and then submits this, I want a score of 90 (or 9) to be reported to the LMS. If the learner is less confident and presses the 40% radio button, I want a score of 40 (or 4) to be reported to the LMS. I don't want them to be able to submit multiple options.

Is there any way you know of achieving this. This does not seem like an unreasonable thing to want to do in Captivate. This is the kind of functionality that is provided by survey tools such as ClassApps, but we want to use our LMS, because it contains the profile for the many thousands of users that need to do the learning and answer these Likert style questions

Thanks

Steve

Lilybiri

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Captivate is not a Survey tool at all, Likert is not even supported for responsive projects.

Does it have to be a 'score'? Long time ago I blogged about a Graded Survey, where I used the numbers of the questions in the MCQ (replaced the A, B C default by 1, 2, ...). The chosen answer is reported to a LMS, you could see the number which corresponds with the 'score' that you want. This is that article: http://blog.lilybiri.com/graded-survey

Graded Survey? - Captivate blog

If you want a real score, I suspect it is possible with JS, not with the built-in scoring of Captivate. A workaround could be to take advantage of the Branch aware feature. When the user has chosen an option (maybe with the radiobuttons interaction), you navigate immediately to a slide where a button has to be pressed that has the proper score. That means that you would need 11 of those dummy slides. Branch aware makes the total score dynamic, only objects on visited slides will be taken into account for the total score. Bit cumbersome, but it is a possibility if you can cope with the navigation limitations caused by Branch aware.

Branch Aware Quiz - Captivate blog

If the LMS can capture user variables, you could also use that same radiobuttons interaction with an associated variable. The chosen option will be in that variable.

These are just a couple of ideas.

RodWard

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Captivate offers both Multiple-Choice (radio button) and Multi-Answer (checkbox) quiz question types.

If only ONE answer option needs to be selected, use the Radio button Multi-Choice quiz question. Don't select the option to make it accept multiple answers.

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