edit / modify and submit questions

[alanj59876100]

I am preparing some elearning material for language students studying English.

What I want to do is give them a sentence which contains one or two errors and ask them to correct it and submit it with the software marking it as right or wrong, showing the correct answer and explaining the language point.

How do I do this in Captivate 9 which I've only just downloaded on a trial basis. However I have spent hours looking for the answer but to no avail.

Any help gratefully received.

Alan  

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Not that easy for a newbie at all....None of the default type of questions allows this, since I presume that you'd offer the whole sentence. It is not possible to make changes to text in Captivate unless you use the Scrolling Text interaction, which can be set to accept user input. You can add a submit button without problems, but the issue is that you would need an advanced conditional action that checks if the 'words' that had to be corrected are indeed present in the sentence in the correct writing. Once I created an example on my blog that is bit linked with what you want. Have a look, to see if the complication of such an approach is not too hard for you?

Custom Short Answer Question - Captivate blog

The only way out of the box is the default Short Answer question. The user will have to wait until he is in Review mode (one of the Quiz features) before seeing the 'correct answer'. The feedback captions can be used to explain immediately after submitting the question. In that case I would put the sentence to be corrected as 'question' and have the (blank) short answer below it: it means that the user will have to retype everything including the corrections. Issue: everything has to be exactly as what you specify as 'correct answer'.

[alanj59876100]

Dear Lilybiri,

It's very kind of you to reply so quickly and so fully.

Most of the material I want to prepare is of the sort I described. As I have only just started a trial period on Captivate, I will see whether there is an easier way of doing it with some other software. If there isn't, I will come back and try to do what you want.

Danke veel

Alan