New Captivate - Create Multiple Choice from Scratch

[LeighWD]

Hello Everyone,

New here to Adobe Captivate.  Never even worked with the older (2019) version.  Just introduced to eLearning authoring software through the new Adobe Captivate.

I know that you can create a multiple choice quiz through a pre-built question slide.  However, I would like to customize my quiz.  See these two screenshots.  In one quiz, I would like the learner to watch a video before selecting their answer.  In the second (vocabulary) quiz, I would love to ask multiple multi-choice questions within the slide.  

I know I can achieve both of these things by adding content blocks, video, buttons, and radio groups to a blank slide.  This is how I was able to build what I've shown above.  I also know that I can select a radio group and have the student answer reported in the quiz, assigned a point, and reported to the LMS.

However, I am struggling beyond belief to assign the proper variable (in the Interactions section) for each radio group, indicating which is the right answer.  I've tried creating my own True/False variable (toggling, adjusting, and assigning to TRUE or FALSE, depending on which radio button is selected).  No matter what, when I run the project through Preview, complete the quizzes and answer all of the questions, the Final Results slide gives me 100/100.  Which, to me, indicates that I am doing something very wrong.  I've noticed that there is a Quiz.Pass and Quiz.InScope toggle within the System Variables list.  However, those do not seem to be options for me when I am in Interactions. 

Maybe I am asking too much from this version of Adobe Captivate.  Does anyone have any advice (or experience) with the new Adobe Captivate concerning this?  Has anyone created a reported quiz (not knowledge check) without using the pre-built question slides and had it successfully record and report the student answers?     

Thanks in advance for any guidance you may offer in this matter.

[Lilybiri]

I could point you to multiple blog posts in previous versions but his new version still limited in features. You can install 11.8.2 along with the new version but that is probably what do not want. Lot of the limitation are linked to the fact the new version is always responsive. You can compare the new version with Rise Articulate which is also limited, and the former version to Storyline. They are not be compared, which may be change in the future.

You need to define the variables in the Project properties. before being able to use them in interactions.

[LeighWD]

Thanks for responding so quickly Lilybiri.  You're right.  I can't really toggle between the old and the new version.  According to what I have been reading, you can't even import a 2019 project into the new Adobe Captivate (or vice versa).  I believe I would have to totally rebuild my project within the 2019 version, if I wanted access to its features and capabilities.

These are the exact steps I took:

1) I created a user variable (the True/False toggle) in the Project Properties/List of all variables.  I labled it as the question number (re: Question 1).  I defined the value as True in the Project Properties. 

2) Then in the Interactions, I select the radio group for Question 1 (there are three answers in the radio group). 

3) Click 'Selection of.'  Choose one of the three answers (re: Lupe is reading with her mother before bedtime.)  

4) Then in the 'More Actions' I select  'Assign variable.'  Choose my user-created variable (Question 1). 

5) Then give it the value of TRUE or FALSE, depending on whether the option is the correct or incorrect answer. 

I believed this would code the quiz just like whatever the Adobe programmers have done to generate those pre-built question slides.  However, that doesn't seem to be the case. 

What am I missing here? 

[Lilybiri]

No, it is not that simple. You need to attach scores, and at this moment the quizzing system variable which stores the answer given has problems probably due to the fact that you need to define which type of variable it is. That has never been the  case in the past. You need to check if the answer given is correct or wrong. In previous versions for clents I would create a shared action and a dedicated master slide, so that the client just had to enter some parameters< Those possibilities don't exist anymore, which makes it very hard

Since I understand that you are new to Captivate and do not want to learn two completely different UI and terminology I do not know about your rights to install both Captivate Classic and New Captivate. The new one is still missing too much features.

For the slide with the video, did check if you couldn't solve it with an interactive video using overlays?

[LWDavidson]

Thanks @Lilybiri.  After hours and hours of frustrating struggles, I assumed as such that it wouldn't be that simple. 

I feel like I'm a little too committed to the New Captivate at this point.  Again, unless I'm understanding things incorrectly, I can't transfer my New Captivate project to the Classic Captivate version.  I've spent literally months building this course in the New Captivate.  I may have to resign to using the pre-built quiz slides.  It's a shame really.  I feel like there's so much potential, if only there weren't so many limitations put in place. 

[Lilybiri]

I completely understand since you are new to Captivate.

Classic and New Captivate are completely incompatible. For my jobs new Captivate is still too limited, I need to answer the requests of my clients and those are most for more advanced workflows. I have written over 50, blogs posts about quizzes, none of them can't be used anymore. Some clients use themes, libraries since years to streamline their working process. Just some adaptations once in a while. Reusability is not at all a priority for this new version.

I just published a second blog about comparing Bookmarks for frame navigation in both versions. It looks like an improvement of first sight, in New Captivate, but was a bit frustrated:

https://blog.lilybiri.com/static-bookmarks-in-new-captivate

First blog post explains the termology I used:

https://blog.lilybiri.com/bookmarking-in-captivate-classic-and-new-introduction

Just know that I also spent many testing hours on a features I estimated to be an improvement.

[LWDavidson]

Thank you so much for sharing this resources.  It's a good start for me. 🙂