Incomplete / Passed / Failed Quiz Options

[Guest]

I would like my SCORM 1.2 quiz to have the following behaviors:

- If the learner exits in the middle of the quiz, the lesson status is set to 'incomplete' and the score is NOT passed

- If the learner fails the quiz, the lesson status is set to 'Failed' and the Score is communicated

- If the learner passes the quiz, the lesson status is set to 'passed' and the Score is communicated

It seems Captivate always passes a score.

If I use the Passed / Failed setting, Captivate initializes the quiz to Failed (so if they exit without completing, they fail).

If I use the Completed / Incomplete, I cannot get the Failed Status.

Doesn't seem like I can set a value into the key system variables.

This is for Captivate 3.0 or Captivate 4.0

Thanks!

[merobertsjr]

I believe it is an either or situation when publishing, because some LMS use pass/fail, others use complete/incomplete (and then they use the scoring data to set a passing threshold for the course).  For example some LMS can track if the user has seen all the content with (complete/incomplete), but the quiz score (mastery score) is used to separately decide if they understood the material.

For pass/fail the reason it sets to fail is that the SCORM standard requires a status, and if it were not set then the behavior from some LMS is to assume a pass, unless you receive a fail message.  It is counter intuitive, since in most cases you would want a user to fail if the LMS does not get a pass message.  The same holds true for complete/complete.

You can still attemt to hard code values, but it might be unnecissary. Your LMS may have a way to handle.

What LMS are you using?

[Guest]

Thanks! This helps and it is not the answer I was hoping for.

I'm using Saba and also verified the behavior in Test Track (Rustici).

Seems like Captivate should:

1) Initialize the course to incomplete

2) if the quiz is completed/submitted, then communicate either Passed or Failed.

[merobertsjr]

1) I agree that in theory captivate should pass an incomplete unless complete is established.  But the problem I have found is that I dont believe that captivate expressly adds the code in the manifest to insist that an LMS mark courses as incomplete until told otherwise.  So in the cases of some LMS/Captivate implimentations if users dont complete content and cancel out early, or dont complete entirely they, strangely enough, could get a COMPLETE.  The work around is to expressly add code (as needed) in the manifest to allow the captivate content to determine COMPLETE/INCOMPLETE.  You would think this would be native, but captivate manifests can lack the following code:

<imsss:deliveryControls completionSetByContent="true" objectiveSetByContent="true" />

2) the pass/fail is similar, but for Captivate to be able to work for many LMS implimentations it is good that it can set pass/fail or complete/incomplete.  I have found that various LMS implementations use the SCORM standards differently.

Is the behavior the same between Saba and Test Track, or are the results different?