captivate for multi-questions?

[Guest]

I want you to ask you if I can use Captivate for creating an autoexec quiz of 100 questions (15 of a topic, 15 of another and so on) that takes questions from a database of 3200 questions in maximum 100 minutes.

thanks for your help

[Lilybiri]

You can create a question pool for each topic. Then you insert 15 random slides, each from one question pool. It is possible to add a timer interaction and use an advanced action to navigate the user from the question slide to an end slide when the time limit has been reached. I don't know what you mean by 'autoexec'? I suspect that you'll want to transfer the results to a LMS, which means the user has to start the quiz from the LMS.

[Guest]

thanks but I want to know if I can create a standalone .exe file (created with Captivate) that can extract 15+15+15...(until total=100 questions) of various topics from a database of 3200 questions and create a 100 questions quiz, always different...

[RodWard]

You cannot do this with standard Captivate functionality.  You'd need to engage the services of a programmer, plus you'd need to supply him with a complete design requirements document, and you'd need a decent budget for the project.

[Lilybiri]

Is there really no way to post the quiz on a LMS? Some LMS's are free? In that case you could use the question pools, but have to know that to present a new selection of questions from the pools, the course has to be restarted. I have been a college professor, without any budget and did manage to offer eLearning assets to my students, but you have to cope with the limitations in that case and don't ask 'impossible' work flows from a tool.

[Guest]

yes of course, i will also hire a Nasa scientist to go on Mars...your message was so useful!!!!

i'm a school teacher, i don't have funds, dear mr RodWard...

[RodWard]

@simonascargo:  I'm sorry if my answer was not what you were wanting to hear but what you wanted to do is simply not that easy to pull off.  Captivate CAN do a lot, but it is still limited.  We do have some very talented programmers on this forum who have demonstrated some amazing solutions.  But I personally do not believe they should be expected to give their time for free when the solution would require significant work.  If you feel differently, good luck.