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reubenr59157068
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October 9, 2020
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Return to Final Exam Questions

  • October 9, 2020
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Hello,

 

I have a course with a custom TOC which is available during the final exam. If a learner leaves mid FE to visit any of the slides before it, when they return to the FE they get stuck and cannot progress to the next questions.

 

I know it is probably not recommended to allow learners to leave during a final exam, but its a possibility that they might go looking for answers.

 

How would I allow them to return to the question from where they left off in the final exam?

 

Or if this is not possible, how would I be able to reset the final exam whenever they return to it?

 

I guess the other option would be to disable the custom TOC while the FE is in progress. I have already tried this by setting up AA On Enter for each of the questions. This did not work for some reason and the buttons in my custom TOC were still active once the first question appeared, but then were disabled after clicking the home icon to return to the start - very strange. 

 

I do not have a preference on keeping the TOC open or disabled while the FE is in progress - so whatever is quickest solution is what I will likely go for! 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Reuben

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    October 9, 2020

    I never allow navigation during quiz slides, if you want the learner to answer the questions and have the possibility to multiple attempts on question level. You idea to hide the TOC during the quiz is probably the best solution. That is also the reason that the Hide playbar  option is provided in Quiz Preferences. That rule applies always. Which means that learner will be frustrated if you add skip and back buttons, because once they leave a question slide to find the answer in content slides, they will never be able to answer that question during the present attempt on quiz level.

     

    Design of quiz slides is that answers are blocked and attempts on question level are considered to be exhausted if the question slide is left. There are two exceptions:

    • If you use the remediation feature, but that is not fitting for your use case.
    • If you turn on Submit All. That will allow free navigation through slides as long as you remain in the Quiz scope. That last requirement is not as strict anymore in the most recent versions of Captivate as it used to be in the past. You didn't mention the version you are using.

     

     

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    reubenr59157068Author
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    October 12, 2020

    Hello,

     

    Paul - I have tried adding the back button and that's no really suitable for what I want to achieve as it doesn't solve the issue of not being able to re-submit answers after leaving questions slides.

     

    Lily - I agree that the other options you suggest are not fitting for my case too. 

     

    I think I will have to go with the disable menu option, however like I said I couldn't get this working when I tried before. I have a custom TOC and the two shartshape buttons I want to disable (1 hamburger icon, 1 home icon). These buttons are set to appear for the rest of the project and always on top - perhaps this overides my advanced actions to disable them on enter for all of my questions? I'm not sure why else the disable action wouldn't be working as intended, perhaps you may have an idea?

     

    FYI - I am using the latest version of Captivate 2019. 

     

    Thanks,

     

    Reuben

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    October 12, 2020

    Disabling should work, sorry to insist that something else is wrong. I would really hide that TOC on quiz slides as I explained before. Look at it from the learner's viewpoint: seeing a menu that doesn't allow you to be used is at least frustrating, isn't it?

    Paul Wilson CTDP
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    Paul Wilson CTDPCommunity Expert
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    October 9, 2020

    The quickest and easiest solution based on your criteria is to add Back and Skip buttons to all your question slides. Open your Preferences window and select the options for Back and Skip and it should automatically place these buttons based on your Master slide layout on all your question slides.

     

    Paul Wilson, CTDP
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