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samamara
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June 15, 2022
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Interactive Video with Reporting Quiz

  • June 15, 2022
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Good day all 🙂

 

I have a question about creating an interactive video that has quiz/reporting questions throughout. In our school, teachers want to create interactive videos for flipped classroom and asynchronous review materials. Initially the teachers used Camtasia, which was fine, but you can't hide the player controls and the instructors don't want students scrubbing through the videos to answer questions.

 

When they came to me for suggestions, I of course thought of Captivate until I realized they want the quiz questions to be a part of the learners' grades. As far as I know, though, ungraded knowledge check slides are the only types you can include as overlays in an interactive video...correct?

 

If this is true, are there any suggestions on how to create an interactive video quiz that can report a grade? I found this post from ages ago, but it seems a bit cumbersome and as it is a few years old I wonder if there have been any developments or new ideas since. 

 

Any and all suggestions welcome, though simpler ones rather than more difficult would be better as the people who will be creating these may not have much Captivate experience and I don't want them to ask me to do all of their videos or all the teachers will and there are a lot of teachers, lol!

 

TIA!

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    Indeed, that is the most important limitation of interactive videos in Captivate.

    There are two possible workarounds:

    1.  Cut the video in parts and use real quiz slides in between the parts. You will not have any issues in that case to publish a SCO to report to a LMS.
    2.  Use shared/advanced actions to collect scores in a user variable for the KC slides in the video.  Use either CpExtra to transfer the value of the user variable to the system variable cpQuizInfoPointsscored (my workflow) or JavaScript to do the same. 

     

    As a former professor in a university college and a big fan of flipped classrooms, I used real interactive courses instead of video, created with Captivate.  Interactive video is not adding that much interactivity to passive video but that is my personal opinion. Maybe this example adds some more ideas about using the bookmarks and adding a custom menu to increase control by the learner:

    Custom Play/Pause button

     

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    Lilybiri
    LilybiriCorrect answer
    Legend
    June 15, 2022

    Indeed, that is the most important limitation of interactive videos in Captivate.

    There are two possible workarounds:

    1.  Cut the video in parts and use real quiz slides in between the parts. You will not have any issues in that case to publish a SCO to report to a LMS.
    2.  Use shared/advanced actions to collect scores in a user variable for the KC slides in the video.  Use either CpExtra to transfer the value of the user variable to the system variable cpQuizInfoPointsscored (my workflow) or JavaScript to do the same. 

     

    As a former professor in a university college and a big fan of flipped classrooms, I used real interactive courses instead of video, created with Captivate.  Interactive video is not adding that much interactivity to passive video but that is my personal opinion. Maybe this example adds some more ideas about using the bookmarks and adding a custom menu to increase control by the learner:

    Custom Play/Pause button

     

      samamara
      samamaraAuthor
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      June 15, 2022

      Thank you @Lilybiri for your help. I was hoping to avoid cutting up the video but I think that may be the easiest option. The teachers who will make this will have little to no experience with Captivate so it should be straight forward enough to teach them how to do that as opposed to the other suggestions you made. 

       

      I do wish Adobe would consider such an option though; it would really be a useful addition. 

       

      Thanks again!

      Lilybiri
      Lilybiri
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      June 15, 2022

      You can enter a feature request (as I did a lot). Here is a link to the form:

      Adobe Captivate: 1 (allegiancetech.com)

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