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Olay_12
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April 19, 2012
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I need some help with creating a quiz with results

  • April 19, 2012
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I have a project with over 100 slides, how do I create quizzes with results in the middle of of the presentation. 

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RodWard
RodWard
Community Expert
April 20, 2012

As far as a Captivate project is concerned, you can only really have one quiz per project file, and one 'official' Quiz Results slide, which always needs to be positioned at the end of the quiz.  If you try to set up a single module with multiple quizzes, Captivate will see it as just one big quiz.  You either need to break your project up into multiple project modules, each with its own quiz, or else try to use custom variables and advanced actions to calculate scoring for each section of your quiz, then display results from these variables on 'faux quiz results' slides.  This is likely to be a lot of work and probably create a maintenance nightmare for you.

If you don't like the way this works in Captivate, feel free to log an enhancement request stating how you think it should work.

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Olay_12Author
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April 20, 2012

Rod: Thank you and I appreciate your quick concise response. It appears to me that the user should have the option to having modules with quizzes within a (one) given project/course. Instead of projects with quizzes that are recognized by LMS as different courses. I ask myself with Captivate being so robust, why can't I have several modules with assessments in one course?

RodWard
RodWard
Community Expert
April 20, 2012

I don't think you understand the way Captivate works.

Based on what you have said, you CAN actually get what you want with Captivate...once you stop thinking of each Captivate project file as an entire course, and see it the way it was designed to work, as a module in a course.  You want separate modules, each with its own quiz.  Captivate can give you that.  You just need to use different project files for each module. 

Captivate is designed to work the way it does because it's used to create courses that comply with several internationally recognised instruction standards. For example, the people that designed SCORM reporting didn't share your view. And that's why each SCO in a SCORM course can only have one Pass/Fail result, because as far as SCORM is concerned each of those modules is a separate and distinct assessment.  SCORM provided for all of the modules in a multi-SCO course to 'roll up' their results to achieve an overall pass fail for the entire course.  By doing thiggs this way, they allowed for people that only wanted a single SCO course with just one assessment, as well as a multi-SCO course with any number of assessments.   Captivate has simply followed a similar model. 

Each Captivate project essentially creates a single SCO with a single assessment that can be reported as a pass or fail output result.  It provides the Multi-SCORM Packager tool to combine multiple SCOs into a course so that LMSs can understand this content and track it.

I hope once you understand this model it will open up new possibilities for creating courses along the lines you've already described.  There are many benefits from having the modules managed as separate project files rather than trying to build the entire multi module course in a single huge monolithic project file.

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