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blakeyblue
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February 18, 2010
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Quiz that scores on ranges

  • February 18, 2010
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Does anyone know if there is a way to set up a quiz in Captivate 4 that allows the student to answer a question by entering a min and max range. Captivate then compares the correct answer with those ranges and spits out a percentage of how many questions were answered right or wrong.

Any guideance on how I would do this in Captivate 4, would be most helpful!! Attached is an example of what I'm trying to do.

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    blakeyblueAuthor
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    February 23, 2010
    Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it. I can't believe there are still good people in this world.
    Here is the situation, this is a Calibration exercise that consists of 10 general trivia questions. The point of the exercise is to teach IT analyst how to become better at estimating uncertain probabilities within an organization. Most people are significantly overconfident about their estimates, especially educated professionals. So we ask them to answer the question within a range, but at a 90% confidence level (even if the range is really wide) as long as the correct answer is within that range. By the forth exercise the ranges tend to get narrower and the percentage of correct answers increases. After they finish giving the ranges to the 10 questions, I would like them to click a button that will show the answers to the 10 questions and the percentage they got correct. So if they miss 5 out of 10, the percentage is 50%. It would be nice for that percentage to report back to our LMS but if that is too difficult, i just won't fool with that right now.
    Here is my first exercise...
                                                                                                                                       Min                Max               Answer
    What is the road mileage from Seattle to Atlanta?                                                                                                        2756
    How many letters were in the Greek alphabet?                                                                                                             24              
    How many of the elements in the Periodic Table of chemistry were
    discovered in the 20th Century?                                                                                                                                  29                          
    If the Sahara Desert were the shape of a square of the same area,
    how long would one side be?                                                                                                                                      1822   
    The Airbus A380 provides seating for 525 people in standard three-class
    configuration. How many could it seat if all seats were economy class?                                                                          853                                                          
    How much did the Apollo Command Module (the capusle where the
    astronatus sat) weigh (pounds)?                                                                                                                               12980
    What was the total number of pages in the Greater Dallas Yellow pages
    in 1998?                                                                                                                                                                   2258
    The largest meteorite ever found on Earth weighed how many tons?                                                                               60  
    Gone with the Wind won the Oscar for best picture in what year?                                                                                   1939                              
    New development is what percentage of US softward costs?                                                                                          41%  
                                                                                                                                                                                                               
    So after they put in their minimum and maximum range, they would click Submit and the answers would appear with the % they got correct. Does this make more sense?
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    blakeyblueAuthor
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    February 23, 2010

    Here is a screen shot of my first slide that I made in Captivate. From here I'm kinda stuck.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    February 24, 2010

    Hello,

    Only had time (very busy) to construct a CP for one range question. Would recommend to have one question per slide (eventually you can put the results of previous questions on the subsequent slides). Have a look at the variables I defined (there are some more than used, did not have time left) and the advanced actions (ditto). Quick explanation:

    v_Min1 = variable to store the answer of the first TEB (min)

    v_Max1= variable to store the answer of the second TEB (max)

    v_correct1 = variable starts with 0, 1 added if v_Min1 is correct, another added if v_Max1 is correct; so if range is correct, result = 2

    v_score = variable to store the score, starts with 0, 10 added whenever a question is correct

    Q1_min = advanced action to test value of v_Min1, attached as Success for first TEB

    Q1_max = advanced action to test value of v_Max1, attached as Success for second TEB

    CorrectShow = advanced action to show Wrong/Correct and to change v_score if correct answer, attached to Submit-button

    Score appears (with a button to pause) latest.

    Hopes this helps you a little bit,

    Since the attachment functionality is not yet available, send me a personal message, I'll mail the CP.

    Lilybiri

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    February 18, 2010

    Hello,

    Think it would be possible, using Variables and Advanced Actions. You'll have to store the answer (to get with a TEB) in a user variable and check if it is greater than Min, and smaller than Max..Same advanced action could be eventually reused if changing the value of Max and Min which should then be user variables too. Just some ideas, do not know if this makes sense to you because I'm not aware of your level of experience with CP4.

    Lilybiri

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    blakeyblueAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    February 19, 2010

    Thank you. I have used CP3 quite a bit but new to CP4 so none of this makes sense to me right now, but I will give it a shot tomorrow. I really appreciate your help. Since I'm doing this blindly, I need all the help I can get. If you don't mind, I may email you if I just cannot figure it out. Thanks again.

    Sent from my iPhone

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    February 19, 2010

    Hello,

    Can I recommend something? There is a fine introduction tutorial to variables and advanced actions in the Help, Chapter Advanced Actions.

    Will be glad to help you start with it, gives a lot more control over CP-movies.

    Lilybiri

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