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July 26, 2007
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Quiz Pass/Fail and tutorial continuation

  • July 26, 2007
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Hi!

I will try my hardest to be a descriptive as possible to avoid confusion. First let me explain the setup Icurrently have to see if what I want to achieve is even feasible.

The way my tutorials are set up is:
I make a menu using menu builder, with links to the tutorials (3+ tutorials depending on content). The user clicks the link on the menu, and it takes them to the tutorial. When the tutorial opens it is an image slide, with our default company background, a homemade grid, and buttons. Eachbutton serves as a part of that tutorial or a section. the user click the button, goes through that "section" I have it set up in the backround sothat when the user has reached the last slide of the section it loops back to slide 1. Essentially I guess I have the tutorial setup with 3 or more branches per tutorial. Then there is a button at the bottom to take the quiz. The quiz is in the same project file (1 quiz per tutorial; "x" number of sections per tutorial; "x" number of tutorials per unit) My superior would like it to where, when the user takes the quiz, and should fail, they cannot procede to the next tutorial until they PASS.

SO

My question is: Can I set up something this intricate within the PASS/FAIL options? Even if I can just get it to go to a different menu (menubuilder menu) if the user fails, or one if they pass, that would be great. That way, if they fail, they get to a menu that essentially has "dead links" to all tutorials except the one that they failed on.

No - we do not track quizresults with SCORM or SAP or any other databasing option.

If I was unclear or foggy in my explanation, I am sorry, as I have some Ideas, and I am also kind of rushed today. Please feel free to ask any questions, and I will accomodate with answers as best as possible.

Thanks!!

-Jeremy
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July 26, 2007
I don't think there's a way to enforce passing using Menu Builder and the built-in Pass/Fail functionality.

You could get away with it if your materials were strictly linear... one file linking to the next. Then it would simply be a case of "don't show them the Continue button until they've passed".

I may be wrong, but once you introduce the random access nature of Menu Builder, I think you're sunk. Menu Builder isn't very bright.

If you absolutely must have such a thing, I think your best bet would be to create your own "smart" menu in an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver and use JavaScript to tap into the tracking information Captivate generates. That's some tricky stuff that's probably well beyond the skillset of most Captivate users, though.