How can you create an ordinary slide to function as a quiz slide?

[rsramiro]

Since I find the Captivate 9 quiz slides very limiting, I plan to create some of the quizzes as an ordinary Captivate slides (but the actions scripts would help me make it look more like a quiz) and I feel I can replicate the look and feel of this quizzes.

My question is about the reporting side. What are the variables that I must be aware of and is it possible to manage them (for that particular slide) so that the LMS I upload it to will treat those slides as quiz slides and track those that needed to be track on the quiz slide (eg. scores, attempts, accuracy, total questions, etc.) also be tracked on these slides as well as if they are just like a quiz slide? Any help is well appreciated, please. Thanks in advance.

[RodWard]

Interactive objects such as buttons, click boxes, text entry boxes etc can be set to Report to Quiz and have an Interaction ID.  But these IDs will only apply to individual components of your faux quiz slides, NOT to the entire slide as would be the case for real quiz slides.

So although you CAN create your own quiz interaction slides and make them look more or less the same as Captivate quiz slides, you will not be able to make them truly behave exactly the same way.  Getting meaningful reporting on these types of slides from the LMS will be somewhat problematic as well because you would need to sort out which specific component interactive objects (and their Interaction IDs) were supposed to belong to the same 'quiz slide'.

[rsramiro]

RodWard wrote:

Interactive objects such as buttons, click boxes, text entry boxes etc can be set to Report to Quiz and have an Interaction ID. But these IDs will only apply to individual components of your faux quiz slides, NOT to the entire slide as would be the case for real quiz slides.

So although you CAN create your own quiz interaction slides and make them look more or less the same as Captivate quiz slides, you will not be able to make them truly behave exactly the same way. Getting meaningful reporting on these types of slides from the LMS will be somewhat problematic as well because you would need to sort out which specific component interactive objects (and their Interaction IDs) were supposed to belong to the same 'quiz slide'.

I understand now.

is it still possible for me to do revisions or control quiz system variables using the advanced actions so I can still do my own quiz interaction. if i know what needs to be tracked (for example cpQuizInfoPointsscored)?

[RodWard]

Not possible using Advanced Actions.  Quiz System Variables are READ ONLY.

[rsramiro]

RodWard wrote:

Not possible using Advanced Actions. Quiz System Variables are READ ONLY.

Well, thanks anyway. This means I need to have a long talk with my boss.

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

I have quite a lot of articles on my blog about creating and reporting custom slides. You cannot change quizzing system variables with advanced nor shared actions. There is a possibility to use JavaScript however, another user once created such an example for me. However with learning interactions and standard interactive objects it is quite possible to create custom questions, that are much less limited than the default quiz questions. Do not forget that the D&D as well can be configured as a question and included in reporting. Here are two examples of a custom questions that go way beyond the default type of questions:

Custom Hotspot questions in Captivate 8 - Captivate blog

Custom Short Answer Question - Captivate blog

[rsramiro]

Lilybiri wrote:

I have quite a lot of articles on my blog about creating and reporting custom slides. You cannot change quizzing system variables with advanced nor shared actions. There is a possibility to use JavaScript however, another user once created such an example for me. However with learning interactions and standard interactive objects it is quite possible to create custom questions, that are much less limited than the default quiz questions. Do not forget that the D&D as well can be configured as a question and included in reporting. Here are two examples of a custom questions that go way beyond the default type of questions:

Custom Hotspot questions in Captivate 8 - Captivate blog

Custom Short Answer Question - Captivate blog

thanks, this is a start. i need to practice it to be able to come up with one.... at least it save me some of the talk i need to have with my boss... (when i had a talk with my boss before, she was even contemplating about finding another software because of the limitations of the quiz in captivate, i hope with this, it might change her mind because aside from i like captivate, i have been using this for a long time )

[rsramiro]

Lilybiri wrote:

I have quite a lot of articles on my blog about creating and reporting custom slides. You cannot change quizzing system variables with advanced nor shared actions. There is a possibility to use JavaScript however, another user once created such an example for me. However with learning interactions and standard interactive objects it is quite possible to create custom questions, that are much less limited than the default quiz questions. Do not forget that the D&D as well can be configured as a question and included in reporting. Here are two examples of a custom questions that go way beyond the default type of questions:

Custom Hotspot questions in Captivate 8 - Captivate blog

Custom Short Answer Question - Captivate blog

though i feel this looks great... i think i did something like this before ( i did a custom slide for matching and multiple choice using custom variables and actions)... I tihnk you can only track scores on D&D if I include it as a quiz (please tell me if I'm wrong) ... my question remains... are the variables you used can be tracked by an LMS? does it do like a quiz slide that some of the variables (for a quiz slide) (attempts, scoring, percentage, etc.)? and will also include the other quiz slides scores and attempts as one sum report to the LMS?

If not, then I have to ask my boss on what is important to her? To have a quiz that can do whatever he wants (but has limited reporting to LMS) or a quiz slide that is easilly trackable on LMS on different levels (but has limitation on what she wanted it to do)?

I do hope future releases of captivate will have a more  of this features (and flexibility). Can you share me the Javascript (and how can I include it to the slide)?

[Lilybiri]

Each interactive object can have a score, which can be included in the total score. I published two blog posts about reporting custom questions, you can find them in my blog. Normally the content of variables can be transmitted to a LMS, but not all LMS's behave the same way. If you know JavaScript even more is possible.

[rsramiro]

yup i saw those blog post and I think mostly covered there (i assumed) is reporting total score (the others are some user made variables that I guess won't be transmitted as quiz variables to the LMS). now, i have two ways, either i used captivate quiz and be assured that quiz variables needed will be transmitted properly to the LMS (but its features will be limited) or i create my own customized quiz slides and can now do more stuffs to the actual slide (but the variables passed is quite limited).

I got to talk first with my boss on how we should proceed, if she wants the quiz variables to be passed properly or if she wants to insist on what she want the slides to do what she wanted it to do.

Well, any which way she wants, I believe I'll return back here to ask more questions. Thank you so much to you Lilybiri and to RodWard​... you have been too helpful.

[Lilybiri]

Something seems not to be clear to you. The scores of socred objects (buttons, TEB's, interactive widgets) will be included in the system quizzing variables that are transferred to the LMS. The value of user variables can be transmitted, they are included in the report sent by Captivate to the LMS but not all LMS's show that value. They have an Interaction ID, reason why I mentioned JS as well, in case the LMS is limited in showing the content of user variables.

[rsramiro]

sorry if i miss something but thank you now I understand. I'll check first how the limitations of our LMS. will continue with this discussion if I get to know more.