Captivate 12.5 Quiz programming questions

[ziyang60030097]

Hi all,

Can I shuffle the answer choices in Captivate 12.5 when the user re-enters the question slides?

Additionally, I'm trying to program a gating system for the quiz where users have to pass all the questions on one level to enter the next level. I'd like the user to start over the quiz after failing each level twice. However, when I failed twice, I found that I could no longer answer the questions (the answer choices and submit button were disabled). Can anyone help me out?

Thank you very much!

[andrew-envolvemedia]

Question: Can I shuffle the answer choices in Captivate 12.5 when the user re-enters the question slides?

Answer: Yes. Select the question slide in the Slides panel. In the Visual Properties panel, you can select double arrows next to Answer options in the QUESTION PROPERTIES, so that it shuffles the answers.

Question: I'd like the user to start over the quiz after failing each level twice. However, when I failed twice, I found that I could no longer answer the questions (the answer choices and submit button were disabled). 

Answer: This is a little confusing for me (I am seemingly easily confused). To fail a level, does that mean to fail a quiz? You can set multiple attempts on a quiz; and separately multiple attempts on a question (though the latter is not what it seems like you want to affect). How many attempts did you set/do you want on a quiz?

-Andrew

[ziyang60030097]

Thank you Andrew! I should've explained it more clearly. 

So there are a total of 3 levels of questions in one quiz. The user has to answer all the questions on one level correctly to clear that level and unlock the higher levels. I only allowed 2 attempts for each question because if them fail to clear the level after 2 attempts, they will be directed to revisit the level (redo the quiz). They should be able to do the quiz unlimited times.

When I was testing the quiz, I found that after failing to answer a question correctly twice, I could no longer answer it. I assumed it was because I set 2 attempts on the questions. However, if I set unlimited attempts to each question, I don't know how I can program the gating system while limiting the attempts. Do I need a java script to do this?

[RodWard]

You are correct that if you have set a question to only allow two attempts then after the second unsuccessful attempt the user will not be able to answer the question.  That's how Captivate (and any other authoring tool I have used) work by design.

However,  the number of attemps you allow on the overall quiz could potentially be set to allow infinte attempts.  A Captivate project can only really have ONE quiz. Even though you may want to set up levels within that quiz, the fact remains that if the user reaches the end of the quiz and has not achieved a passing score then they would need to reattempt the entire quiz again, starting from the beginning.  If you have allowed infinite attempts on the quiz, then they can just click the Retake Quiz button to begin another attempt.  If they have exhausted all allowed attempts on the quiz, then they would need to relaunch the entire module again from the LMS.

[ziyang60030097]

Thank you for your detailed explanation! But how can I program to direct the user to a "GameOver" slide after 2 incorrect attempts on each level (each question in this case) while allowing infinite attempts on back end (to allow them to retake the quiz unlimited times without relaunching the module?