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March 24, 2010
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What is possible with a question widget?

  • March 24, 2010
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I am realizing that what I want to do is beyond the basic capabilities of Captivate and I will have to get someone to create the widget for me. I want to make sure that what I am asking is possible (even as a widget).

I will be using an LMS

I am creating for a semi-literate audience.

I have Captivate 4 and would like to create a widget so that I can use it again and again to create new questions.

I want to create a hybrid multiple choice/hotspot question - the hotspots are over a video containing the question.

Ideally there is no "submit button" the question is answered on the first click. (This is not a dealbreaker)

After a wrong answer, a video is played explaining why the answer was wrong, then the question plays again and the user can try another answer.

This is where I am currently stuck. The previous answer needs to be cleared (as if the clear button was pressed) Can this be accomplished from the widget?

I also want each wrong answer to branch to a different video clip but return to the same question (or better yet a different question from the same pool in which the choices are the same but rearranged (we can create multiple versions of the question video .

Here is as far as I have gone. Correct answers work, the problem happens when the user selects a wrong answer.

Try a right answer first (the hand with the blue bandage) then try a wrong answer (not the guy in the white coat)

http://www.brevidia.com/coursetest10b/coursetest10b.htm

Is this something that can be done with a question widget or am I better off having a developer create something from scratch in flash? I need to work with an LMS.

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Inspiring
March 25, 2010

With what you are describing it will be an extremely complex widget. Also I'm not sure if a couple of your wishes are possible (e.g. returning to question / picking questions from a pool) but I would think most of it is possible to do.

If you need to score the interaction then you need to have it built as a question widget in order for it to send a result to Captivate. However, if there is no need to keep track of scoring then it would probably be simpler to have it built in Flash alltogether and skip the widget API.

You would need a very skilled Flash developer for this type of widget though and I'm 95% sure that it would be best to build it using AS3.

The only person that I can think off that could build this for you is Tristan Ward from Infosemantics. He has a lot of experience with AS3 widgets. Their site address is: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/

/Michael


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