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May 23, 2012
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Limiting retries on Cornerstone Ondemand

  • May 23, 2012
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Hi all

Apologies if this has been previously answered but i have scoured the forums and i am getting conflicting answers.

Can i create a quiz in Captivate that can be locked to 3 retries? I need the user to be unable to retake this test any more than 3 times. Cornerstone LMS does not allow me to limit retries, however Captivate does. However am i correct n thinking that re-entering the quiz will reset the attempts?

Any help would be much appreciated..

Thanks in advance

Noel

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RodWard
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May 24, 2012

Captivate only limits retries during the current launch of a module.  According to the SCORM standard, the SCO is not supposed to be storing its own information.  That's the job of the LMS.

Most LMSs have functionality that enables you to limit the number of times the course is attempted, but not necessarily whether or not individual modules within a course are attempted.

If you wanted to impose such a limitation, you could use the Save and Load Variables widget to write variables to Shared Objects on the user's PC and then load these again on the first slide of a module.  You can then use Conditional Advanced Actions On Slide Enter of each slide to check whether or not the user has attempted this particular module before and if so jump them to a "No you can't do this" slide.  You'd need to do this check on every slide or else disable all other forms of navigatioin (playbar and TOC etc) to prevent the user from circumventing the restriction.

http://www.cpguru.com/save-and-load-data-widgets-for-adobe-captivate-u pdated/

Aurora-7Author
Participant
July 5, 2012

Many thanks

Noel