Most Efficient Way to Import and Implement 'Practice Quizzes'?

[joseph_wilde]

I was recently brought in as part of a company's Continuing Education department, and am currently working with them to migrate all of their courses (about 134 total) from the Moodle platform to a different Learning Management System. Unfortunately, the current courses were all built into Moodle in a piecemeal fashion as opposed to being in SCORM packages, as the new LMS requires.

I've been evaluating different authoring tools, and will likely end up using Captivate primarily for its ability to easily import Moodle's GIFT-format quiz questions. As you might imagine, this should be exceptionally more efficient than manually rebuilding each course's quiz questions.

I've been able to successfully export course questions from Moodle and import them into Captivate, which is fantastic, but there's one other wrinkle that I need to deal with. The licensing and certification board that oversees our field requires that, in addition to each course having a final graded quiz, each course also needs an ungraded 'practice quiz'.

I've explored Captivate's 'Knowledge Check' question type. That seems like it would be a great fit for our practice quizzes, except that Captivate imports questions for the 'standard' quiz by default and apparently lacks the ability to easily convert those slides into Knowledge Check slides. Another forum post definitively indicated that Captivate 9 had no ability to convert Knowledge Check and standard question slides; I'm assuming this is still the case in Captivate 2017?

If so, then I'm trying to figure out how to most quickly and easily set up the needed practice quizzes. The practice quiz questions are included along with the final quiz questions when exporting from Moodle, so it'd be ideal if I could just bring in everything at once and then modify the practice questions as needed. Keeping in mind that those practice questions do not need to factor into the user's final quiz 'score', would it be possible to build a second quiz into a course that has its own overall feedback screen, but is discrete from the final quiz questions, without using Knowledge Check slides? Would the Question Pool options be useful for this?

This is my first experience with Captivate, so I apologize if I'm missing something simple. I've tried to do my due diligence in searching through the help documents and forums, but I feel like someone who's more knowledgeable might be able to more quickly get me to the best approach for this need.

Thanks in advance! 

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Sorry for a late answer, we live in different time zones.

I don't know if you found my blog post where I explored the differences between Quiz and KC slides:

Knowledge Check Slides - tips - Captivate blog

You cannot use random slides, it is not possible to import GIFT in KC slides neither (as you found already). But you can have Quiz slides where you take out the Reporting to a LMS and/or set the score to 0. That way you can use the GIFT import for those slides. However, some quizzing system variables will still include those fake KC slides. You can have a complete overview of the quizzibg system variables in another article (with a downloadable table):

Using Quizzing System Variables - Captivate blog

To give feedback to the learner about those practice quizzes, maybe this recent post can help?

Custom Review - Captivate blog

Last tip: use the Advanced Interaction panel (F9) which is hidden and will never pop up automatically but which is the best way to manage scores and interactivity.

[joseph_wilde]

Thanks for the detailed considerations, Lieve!

I had previously skimmed through the first blog post you referred to, which looked very informative but I hadn't gone too deep since it didn't seem like Knowledge Check slides will be the most efficient option for me.

I had not yet come across the second blog post about System Quizzing variables. I'll definitely dig into that. Ultimately our needs are pretty straightforward-- the practice quizzes don't need to show any sort of score upon their completion, or really provide any information beyond the immediate feedback of whether an answer is correct or not. As long as those practice quiz answers (scored at 0) don't bear any weight on the final quiz score, then we should be set!

It might be nice to have separate progress indicators for both the practice and final quizzes; I glanced at your blog entry on customized progress indicators, which looks like it could help point me in the right direction for that. I'm assuming that it'd be possible to either reset the variables responsible for 'counting' the slides, or to have separate variables for the practice quiz versus final quiz slide counts.

Tangentially, I really appreciate all of the rich resources that you've provided for everyone trying to delve into Captivate. Your name keeps coming up, whether through your blog entries or forum answers, as I fumble my way around learning the software. It's apparent that you add tremendous value to the Captivate community!

[Lilybiri]

Whow, thanks for your answer, that is so different from the insults I often get here, like 'most of your answer is just making noise, not helpful'. I hope you can figure it out. Indeed, you can use variables to count question slides, you should avoid using some system quizzing variables because they'll take into account all questions. It looks like you are finding your way in my blog. Do not hesitate to post more questions, I like making 'noise'.

[joseph_wilde]

Haha-- ouch! I'm sorry to hear that's been your experience. Nothing I've seen from you thus far has looked like 'noise'; it sounds like maybe people just aren't putting in the time to understand your thorough answers. Personally, though, I definitely appreciate you being comprehensive!