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April 16, 2011
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How to Resume quiz - get credit for questions already answered

  • April 16, 2011
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We would like the learners to be able to resume a quiz where they left off, and to get credit for questions they have already answered.

We are running PeopleSoft ELM, SCORM 1.2

Scenario:

Someone takes a module with 10 quiz questions, answers 3 correctly, closes the course.

When they relaunch the course, bookmarks take them correctly to question 4 and they can continue to the end.

If the course requires 100% they get 70%, and they do not pass. Questions 1-3 are not recorded in the module as being answered.

Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Thank you

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RodWard
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April 19, 2011

You can turn on Self-paced Learning in the TOC settings to have learners forwarded to the same slide they exited from when last viewing a module, which is part of what you wanted.  But this doesn't store their quiz question scores, just their new starting point slide.  Personally, I find this behaviour tends to annoy and confuse learners more than help them.

Your LMS may be able to use Resume Data to bookmark progress in the Quiz, and start again from a certain point in the quiz. But I think you'll find that it still may mean the questions that get skipped don't get scored properly.  You'll need to ensure Never Send Resume Data is set to OFF in the Captivate LMS compatibility settings to test this with your particular LMS. Some seem to know what to do with Resume Data but others don't.  I don't know the exact functionality of your particular LMS, so you'll need to do some testing with Resume Data turned on to see if it works or not.

I can understand wanting this kind of functionality for quizzes that have dozens or hundreds of questions, but quite frankly, it only takes seconds to answer typical Captivate quiz questions.  So going to all this trouble because someone might want to quit a quiz after three questions seems like a lot of trouble for very little advantage to me.

April 19, 2011

I have a similar question.  I am using Captivate 3 and created a module for self-study that has a series of questions and allows person to skip questions and go back and forth as part of researching a new policy manual. Unfortunately if a person gets to the end and accidentally skips a question, they have to back arrow through all the questions to find the one missed.  If they accidentally click on review, they are not longer able to correct and our aim was to have everyone complete at 100%.

Maybe the simple fix is to force each question to be answered correctly, allowing multiple attempts to do so, before a person can move forward.

Any thoughts on this?

RodWard
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April 21, 2011

@prichpi. What I would suggest in your case is to enable the Retake Quiz button on the Quiz Results slide but place it on top of the Review Quiz button.   If you've set the passing score to 100%, your user will not be able to hit the Review Quiz button because it will be sitting underneath the Retake Quiz.

Unfortunately, using Retake Quiz will reset all questions back to starting point and reset the learner's score to 0 again.  So you might need to have a slide just before the Quiz Results slide that is using Advanced Actions and User Variables to track whether or not the user has answered all questions correctly, if they haven't, it could warn them to go back and redo Question X before trying to finish the quiz.  This is doable with Captivate's Advanced Actions, but it would require some fiddling.

I'm not personally a great fan of making it impossible to fail each question before advancing to the next question.  You might as well just tell the learner all the answers and be done with it. How is this a valid test of knowledge?  They can just keep trying all the answers on each question until they pass each one.  Once the learners figure this out, they'll start skipping the content slides to get to the quiz questions and finish the course in less time.