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August 15, 2011
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multiple fill in blanks on one screen

  • August 15, 2011
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Hi. I'm using Captivate 5 and want to create multiple Fill-in-Blanks on each screen of a 3-screen quiz. Several problems:

1) If I select the drop-down option, the little arrow in the published project is in front of the default word (I know, I can insert a blank, but what if I want one of the distractors to show?) Also, changing the order of the distractors is a pain.

2) If I select 'user input' as the FIB type, the size of the box is relative to the length of the word. I want it fixed so as not to give the answer away.

3) Most important: C5 insists on assigning each slide a score of 1 regarless of the number of blanks on the screen. I want each blank scored separately, so that if there are five blanks on a page and the user correctly fills in 3, his/her score for that slide is 3/5, and the cumulative score for the quiz is the number of blanks correctly completed on all slides (e.g. if there are 20 blanks on 3 screens, and the user correctly completed 5 blanks, the score is 5/20).

I've tried to understand Lieve Weymeis' blog that seems to address some of these issues, but I'm ashamed to say that it's beyond me.

Thanks for any advice. John  

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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August 15, 2011

Hello John,

First of all I'm Lieve Weymeis, in case you are in doubt. The link you inserted in your question is not to my blog, but to an article about multiple TEB's. On my blog I do have other solutions. Have a look at one of the last

The most important question is if you have to report the result of that slide to a LMS, or if you only have to use it internally in the project? In that case the way to go is with TEB's as I described in this blog post (look at slide 4):

Report Custom Questions - part 1

This is the most easy solution I can propose you for the moment, to have partial scoring because TEB's are interactive objects and can be scored individually.

I like more the possibilities of the TextArea widget, but that is a static widget, and scoring for partial FIB-scores will be way more difficult.

Lilybiri

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Anonymous
August 22, 2011

Lilybiri,

I'm very sorry to be so late replying. Thank you very much for trying to help. The project I was working on was urgent, and even with your explanation, I was not able to understand the procedure. As a short-term measure, I just used some simple js in Robohelp itself (I don't need to report results to an LMS: the quiz is standalone). Now that I have time for it, I'm experimenting with the procedure you described, but I find it challenging...

John

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