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joef93220276
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April 14, 2016
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Quiz Issue in Captivate 9

  • April 14, 2016
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Good morning all! I am fairly new to Captivate, and new to the forum, but I need some assistance. I have searched around and found answers that seem similar to my quandary, but don't quite scratch the itch. I will give advanced warning that, in all likelihood, I am just missing something very obvious.

In my project, I have graded quiz questions scattered throughout the course. The questions allow a single attempt, and when the user answers and clicks "submit," the project advances to the next slide using the two-step slide advance process. The issue I have is when a user goes back to view previously covered material: once the question has been answered, and we are NOT yet in review mode (because the Quiz Results slide is not until the end of the project), the user cannot advance past the quiz slide without using the "forward" button on the playbar. Is there a way to build in a button that allows the user to advance past an already-answered quiz slide while not in review mode, but does not allow a user to inadvertently skip a question?

Please let me know if I need to clarify any, and thank you VERY MUCH in advance for your help.

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Correct answer Lilybiri

Not so easy to realize this since you are new. The original design of quizzes supposed that the question slides were in sequence, that you didn't allow navigation outside of the quiz with the exception of the Remediation features. It is important to remain in the Quiz Scope or the attempt on Quiz level will be considered to be over when you leave the quiz scope. Within one attempt on quiz level the answers given in already answered questions will be frozen.

Free navigation within question slides is possible if you choose for the option 'Submit All', and users will be able to change answers even when revisiting question slides. Only when they press the 'Submit All' button the answers will be considered done, and frozen.

This idea is much more apparent now in CP9 because the Next and Back buttons only appear during Review.

A workaround, maybe, can be to put a custom shape button on the first slide that is hidden originally, timed for the rest of the project. It can trigger the Go to Next slide action. Problem is that the button has to appear only when the question is already answered (since you don't want skip). You can create a user variable for each question slide, a Boolean, that is changed from a default value of 0 to 1 with both the Success and Last Attempt actions for each question slide. A question slide can have an On Enter action: a conditional action that checks the value of the user variable for that slide. If it is 0,the Next shape button has to be hidden, if it is 1 the Next shape button has to be made visible and enabled. Use a shared action for this conditional action, with the variable and the Next button as parameters.

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delasoup
delasoup
Known Participant
September 21, 2016

It looks like this works for regular question slides and Knowledge Check slides, but not Question Pool slides. No "On Success" or "Last Attempt" actions are available for those slides.

RodWard
Community Expert
RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 21, 2016

Look on the Quiz tab when you select the Random Question slide in the filmstrip.

All quiz questions have On Success and On Last Attempt events.

delasoup
delasoup
Known Participant
September 21, 2016

Thanks, RodWard! I stand corrected. I was looking at the slides through the Question Pool > Quiz tab view.

Lilybiri
LilybiriCorrect answer
Legend
April 14, 2016

Not so easy to realize this since you are new. The original design of quizzes supposed that the question slides were in sequence, that you didn't allow navigation outside of the quiz with the exception of the Remediation features. It is important to remain in the Quiz Scope or the attempt on Quiz level will be considered to be over when you leave the quiz scope. Within one attempt on quiz level the answers given in already answered questions will be frozen.

Free navigation within question slides is possible if you choose for the option 'Submit All', and users will be able to change answers even when revisiting question slides. Only when they press the 'Submit All' button the answers will be considered done, and frozen.

This idea is much more apparent now in CP9 because the Next and Back buttons only appear during Review.

A workaround, maybe, can be to put a custom shape button on the first slide that is hidden originally, timed for the rest of the project. It can trigger the Go to Next slide action. Problem is that the button has to appear only when the question is already answered (since you don't want skip). You can create a user variable for each question slide, a Boolean, that is changed from a default value of 0 to 1 with both the Success and Last Attempt actions for each question slide. A question slide can have an On Enter action: a conditional action that checks the value of the user variable for that slide. If it is 0,the Next shape button has to be hidden, if it is 1 the Next shape button has to be made visible and enabled. Use a shared action for this conditional action, with the variable and the Next button as parameters.

joef93220276
joef93220276Author
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April 14, 2016

Thank you. I was headed down the right path, thinking that your workaround was going to be the route to go. Unfortunately, being a newbie to variables and advanced actions, I am going to have a learning curve of trial and error to figure out exactly how to do what you suggested. Any tips?

Thanks again for your very quick and informative response!

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
April 14, 2016

Bit difficult, I explained already the work flow I imagined and it is not really very complicated. But of course, I have been using advanced actions intensively since many years, and explored shared actions. It has become sort of 'second' nature

How many questions do you have in your course?

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