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Lew0409
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October 30, 2013
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Random Questions not selecting Pool

  • October 30, 2013
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Intermittently, a pool question is bypassed in Cap6.

I have 3 random questions slides, each linked to one of three pools.  I named each question Q1P1, Q2P1, etc. for tracking purposes.  Not all pools are having questions used.

Has anyone else been able to ensure that each pool has a question used (which is what the random question slide linked to a pool did)?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give on this issue.

Lew.

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RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 31, 2013

I've not seen this issue of skipping pools.  Are you using Force Republish All Slides each time you publish?  Have you tried clearing you cache before republishing?

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Lew0409Author
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October 31, 2013

Thanks Rod. I tried both of your recommendations, and it seemed to work on my system. But, on another system, it was specifically NOT random for the pools.  It seemed to randomize the questions, just not the pools.

Here are the test results from the other system:

  

Try 1

Q1 Pool 1

Q2 Pool 2

Q3 Pool 1

     

Try 2

Q1 Pool 2

Q2 Pool 1

Q3 Pool 1

     

Try 3

Q1 Pool 3

Q2 Pool 3

Q3 Pool 2

     

Try 4

Q1 Pool 1

Q2 Pool 2

Q3 Pool 2

  

Any ideas?

Lew

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RodWard
Community Expert
RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 1, 2013

Something is definitely not right here. Captivate does not have the ability to randomise the question pools from which a random question slide pulls its question. Each time you insert a question and choose Random as the type, whichever pool you select for that question is the ONLY one that slide will use.

I've never seen an issue such as you describe above were consecutive attempts at a quiz randomize the pools as well as the questions.

Either your project is seriously corrupted, yet still functioning, or else you're mistaken about how these questions and pools are set up.

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