How to retake quiz after you review the quiz

[lashondrac51319316]

Hello all! So I am working on a project in captivate and I want the learner to be able to review the quiz and retake the quiz. My issue is that I have both of those options set up BUT if you review the quiz, once you get back to the results page the retake button is gone. How do I fix this?

[Lilybiri]

It is simply not possible, Quiz is designed so that you lose all further attempts on quiz level if you have used Review.

For that reason I always recommend to drag the Review button under the Retake button. Have a look at:

Question Question Slides in Captivate - Captivate blog

[KenThomas]

As you have discovered, Captivate locks down the quiz results screen and doesn't allow the retake quiz button after the quiz has been reviewed... there are a thousand educational arguments to be made on this point on both sides, but it should be an option (it's not Captivate's place to tell us whether or not we should).

I've found a way around this limitation that I use when retaking is appropriate after reviewing the test...

I keep the review quiz button on the score page, but do not include the retake button on that screen.  I've replaced the "continue" button with the same Next button the learner was using throughout the course and this takes them to a new final page of the course.  This page has two "groups" - a "QuizPassed" group and a "QuizFailed" group.

On Enter runs a conditional advanced action - the logic is:

• If the learner passed the test, show the "QuizPassed" group (happy graphic with congratulatory text telling them to click the Exit button to close the course).
• Else, show the "QuizFailed" group (sad graphic, a 'try again' button, and advisory text telling them they can click Exit to close the course, or they can click the 'try again' button to retake the quiz).  The try again button simply branches to the quiz's welcome page.  Captivate appears to clear the scores from the previous attempt and increases the number of tries by one, so the simple branch appears to do what's needed.

I haven't found the right variable for passing percentage, so I've had to rig my condition a bit... example - on a ten question quiz that requires 8 or more correct answers, the condition is this:

IF

cpQuizInfoTotalCorrectAnswers is less than 8

ACTIONS

Hide QuizPassed

Show QuizFailed

ELSE

Show QuizPassed

Hide QuizFailed

(again, QuizFailed group includes a 'try again' button that branches them to the Quiz's welcome page.)

I'll let others argue the instructional sins I'm committing by allowing learners to review a quiz and then retake it... but that's how it can be done in Captivate.

[JoshCrise]

Does this approach work in html or only swf?

[Lilybiri]

Maybe not what you want, but I blogged about an alternative (tested on HTML, I don't use SWF anymore):

Custom Review - Captivate blog

It also solves the problem of possible cheating: in the custom Review slide, the given answers are shown, learner gets an indicator if those were correct or not, but doesn't see the correct answers as is the case for the normal Reivew. It is perfectly possible to retake the quiz after having viewed the custom Review slide. It needs some setting up, but if you store both the needed graphics and shared actions in a separate project which you'll use as External Library in future projects, it saves a lot of time.

Internal and External Libraries - Captivate blog