Can you jump over a quiz slide?

[Whyisntthisworking]

Question: Is there any way to jump over a quiz slide?

I want to test users at the beginning of a course using specific quiz questions and then only show them the questions that they got wrong in the final quiz at the end where the same quiz is presented a 2nd time to the user.

For example, if the user got question 1 correct in the quiz at the beginning, then at the quiz at the end, they should jump over question slide 1 and start at question 2. But if I have an action telling the course to jump over a quiz slide it always fails and lands on the first quiz slide no matter what i do.

I'm using Captivate 9.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Paul Wilson CTDP]

The only way to jump over a question slide is to make sure you have branching turned on in your preferences, otherwise your users will get marked incorrect for skipped questions.

Press Shift + F8

Click Quiz >> Settings and check off Branch Aware

You could have blank slides before all your question slides at the end. On enter of each of those slide you could run a conditional action that checks if the previous version of the question was successfully completed. If so the action is to jump to the next blank slide and check all subsequent slide for previous success.

[Captiv8r]

Technically, it's possible to jump over a question slide if the Quiz Preferences are configured to allow it.

Sure, the scoring may suffer, but it's technically possible to achieve.

Cheers... Rick

[Lilybiri]

You can have a look at this blog post, where I try to explain how Branch aware is making the quizzing system variables dynamic: that means that score, percentage, number of questions, number of correct questions (all appearing on the score) slide will be populated based on the slides that have been visited by the user. Not only the question but also the slides with scored objects. If you want the user to have a correct result, based on the taken questions you'll need this option indeed. However: it has some drawbacks for navigation. More details: Branch Aware Quiz - Captivate blog

Rick is totally correct when he points out that changing the Required feature in Quiz Preferences from the default setting to something that is more strict can prevent what you want to do as well. The Quiz results will be correct when Branch aware is checked.

About the real question, why the jump is failing, can you give more details over the work flow indicated by this sentence: " if I have an action telling the course to jump over a quiz slide it always fails "?

[Whyisntthisworking]

Hello everyone, thanks for the quick replies! Turning on branch aware and setting the quiz to optional fixed the issue i was having and i'm now getting the behavior i want.

The one downside is that checking on branch aware seems to disable the play bar for some reason, but otherwise everything is working perfectly.

To Lilybiri:

to clarify my statement: "if I have an action telling the course to jump over a quiz slide it always fails."

What i meant is that the user will not be able to jump over a quiz slide regardless of what action i implement, but instead land on the first quiz slide in the course.

[Lilybiri]

Branch aware disables navigation indeed. Not sure you need to turn it on. Its purpose is to make the quizzing system variables (like score/percentage/number of questions) adapt to the questions or scored objects that are visited by the user. It has some drawbacks like what you experienced: it will limit navigation. More info about Branch aware feature in this blog post:

Branch Aware Quiz - Captivate blog