Does Captivate 9 support multiple exams?

[wk36499338]

I'm looking at moving over from Articulate Story Line over to Captivate, but the only thing that is not clear for me is whether or not Captivate can support multiple graded exams in a course.  The use case I have is that my course is broken down to a number of modules and there is a short questionnaire at the end of each module.  I need to be ale to sum up the responses from all the questionnaires. 

I can see that Captivate 9 has a new feature called Knowledge Check Questions which looks perfect, but the questions are ungraded as far as I can tell.

Cheers!

[ohhh_dan]

I'm running into something similar - how are you publishing your courses? If you're publishing SCORM packages, using the aggregator to combine separate chunks of the course help make this possible:

Adobe - Adobe Captivate Support Center : Getting Started

[RodWard]

The Aggregator tool is NOT for SCORM courses.  If you want multiple modules packaged into a single uploadable SCORM zip you need to use the Adobe Multi-SCORM Packager tool as Lilybiri suggested.  Both tools come with Captivate but you need to make sure you use the right tool for the job.

[wk36499338]

Thanks for the answer.

I like the sound of the Aggregator tool as it seems to break the course down nicely.

[RodWard · Accepted solution]

May I repeat:  The Aggregator tool that comes with Captivate is NOT designed for courses that need to report scoring or interaction data to an LMS or LRS.

Though Storyline may allow you to have multiple Quiz Result slides scattered throughout your course, at the end of the day, if you submit a multi-module course to the LMS as a SINGLE shareable content object (SCO for short) then the LMS will only see it has having one quiz.  The extra Quiz Result slides that Storyline allows you to create do not effectively mean the LMS sees the course as a Multi-SCORM course.

Captivate only gives you one built-in Quiz Result slide even though you can mock up your own faux result slides for individual sections of your course if you want to use variables and Advanced Actions.  But again, if you want the LMS to see your course as a Multi-SCORM, you need to be using a separate CPTX file to create each of the individual SCOs that get bundled by the Multi-SCORM Packaging tool.  That tool then takes care of the coding required in the imsmanifest.xml file that the LMS looks at when working out how the course is structured.

[wk36499338]

Thanks! that was very informative.  A lot of what you are saying makes sense.  Just one more point - we have a LMS that supports the Tincan API (xAPI). To our knowledge there is no limitation under xAPI when it comes to the number of quizzes. Captivate doesn't seem to be able to aggregate xAPI published courses.  Is that correct?

[RodWard]

The xAPI standard may allow more than one quiz, but Captivate doesn't create it that way.  As far as I know neither the Multi-SCORM packager or Aggregator are going to be of any help with xAPI courses.

[wk36499338]

Thanks for confirming that.  That's unfortunate, especially that I really like the usability aspect of Captivate.  I will see if we can re-architect our solution somewhat so that we can actually use Captivate. 

Once again thanks for the help.  Much appreciated.

[wk36499338]

Currently I'm using the Articulate Story Line Editor to generate the course file.  I'm using this course with the Learning Locker LRS.  I have 8 modules.  At the end of each module I have a set of questions.  The same set of questions is presented after every module. The user should see a summary of their 'progress'.  For example the user does the following:

module 1, question 1 - select answer which weighs 1

all other questions in module 1 are answered with the option that weighs 0

module 2, question 1 - select answer which weighs 1

all other questions in module 2 are answered with the option that weighs 0

At the end of module 2 see 2 as a summary score.  This carries on until module 8.  

I'm seeing that this Aggregate feature could be useful.  Do all the answers go to the LRS?  If the data is in the LRS I can always retrieve it.   If I were to chose to go with Captivate I would also use the Adobe LRS.

[Lilybiri]

It is a SCORM rule that each module can have only one scored quiz to be reported, is not linked with Captivate. You can use SCORM packager to have all the modules in one course, or if you use a LMS you can use the LMS functionality (and gradebook) to have the result you want.

Captivate has not only Knowledge Check slides, but also Pretest slides. Both come with the same limitation (because of the typical goal of both type of questions) that the score is not reported.

If you want to show intermediate results in one Captivate file for regular question slides, have a look at this work flow

Intermediate Score Slides - Captivate blog