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sallyd44477050
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January 11, 2018
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Quiz next and submit buttons - Captivate 2017

  • January 11, 2018
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Hi, I have a submit button to submit answers on a quiz where you get feedback about your answer and then a next button to advance to the next question. If the user clicks on next without clicking on submit, it seems that captivate or the quiz freezes and the user is stuck in there. How can we add a message that says "click submit first" when they click on the next button by mistake. Thanks.

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Correct answer Lilybiri

You should not need a Next button on the default quiz slides at all. This is the default design of a quiz slide (functionality is built in the embedded objects, where Submit button is the main player):

  • User clicks on Submit button and the first step happens, while the quiz slide remains paused: the feedback messages appear (all can be customized per slide). The message is to click on the slide or press Y to continue.
  • When the user does click on the slide or presses Y the playhead is released, the actions specified under Succes or Last Attempt are executed, unless the user has still an attempt left on the slide. You can set both actions to 'Go to Next Slide', no need for a Next button.

What do you want to change, maybe I could offer some ideas for tweaking that normal design. In this article you'll see some of them, but have to upgrade. I am very happy that the former 'Next' button which doubled as Skip button is gone, because it caused a lot of confusion for the learners. You seem to want it back?

Question Question Slides in Captivate - Captivate blog

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jewellm11131979
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December 30, 2018

Hello,

Thank you for sharing your expertise.

Would you mind to share how you prevent the slide from advancing by clicking anywhere on the slide? I only want the learner to use the submit button, get feedback and then advance to the next slide. Can you help?

Thank you very much!

~J

RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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December 30, 2018

This is the default way that Captivate quiz question slides work.  There aren't really any configuration options that limit the location on screen where the user must click in order to quit the feedback captions and move to the next screen.

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    sallyd44477050Author
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    January 11, 2018

    Great thank you. It worked now but I decided to add a next box (not button) that users will click on to move forward. It wont really do anything since they can click anywhere but I liked having the next button for them to click on rather than clicking anywhere on the slide or typing Y. It just made more sense. Thank you.

      Lilybiri
      Lilybiri
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      January 11, 2018

      That was one of the tweaking possibiities I mentioned in that blog post.

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        sallyd44477050Author
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        January 19, 2018

        Hi Again, as a follow-up to this question I had, I now need to hide the Next button when participant is reviewing the quiz. This Next button which really doesn't do anything will appear and confuse the user while revieiwing the quiz. They will click on this button instead of the >> arrow button. How can I set up an action to hide the Next button while in Review quiz mode. Thank you.

        Lilybiri
        LilybiriCorrect answer
        Legend
        January 11, 2018

        You should not need a Next button on the default quiz slides at all. This is the default design of a quiz slide (functionality is built in the embedded objects, where Submit button is the main player):

        • User clicks on Submit button and the first step happens, while the quiz slide remains paused: the feedback messages appear (all can be customized per slide). The message is to click on the slide or press Y to continue.
        • When the user does click on the slide or presses Y the playhead is released, the actions specified under Succes or Last Attempt are executed, unless the user has still an attempt left on the slide. You can set both actions to 'Go to Next Slide', no need for a Next button.

        What do you want to change, maybe I could offer some ideas for tweaking that normal design. In this article you'll see some of them, but have to upgrade. I am very happy that the former 'Next' button which doubled as Skip button is gone, because it caused a lot of confusion for the learners. You seem to want it back?

        Question Question Slides in Captivate - Captivate blog

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