Placement Test / Survey with Likert

Report · Jul 23, 2017

Hi all,

I am wanting to produce a course placement survey.

Questions are of a disagree (1 point), somewhat disagree (2 points), neutral (3 points), agree (4 points) and strongly a gree (5 points) nature. After all questions have been responded to, I am wanting to jump users to a slide (based on total points scored). This slide would depend on their score and would instruct them what course best suits their abilities.

I know Likerts are not good for quiz reporting but is there anyway to retrieve the total score in Captivate and use an advanced action that jumps to separate slides based on the likert total score?

If not, how would you go about using a rating scale survey to store user scores and send them to a slide depending on their score?

Report · Jul 24, 2017

Likert questions never have a score by default. Two workarounds: either use MCQ type of questions like I described in this (old) blog post: Graded Survey? - Captivate blog

Second possibility is to use the Radiobuttons widget to create custom survey questions, and use advanced/shared actions and variables to calculate the score.

It helps if you provide more information: which version of Captivate are you using? Which OS? Will you publish to SWF or HTML5? Is it a normal or a responsive project (which would not support Likert at all)? Do you have to transfer results to a LMS?

Report · Jul 31, 2017

Thank you for your reply. I am publishing to HTML5 normal project with the latest version (10) of Captivate.

I read your blog on customising the MCQ and it sounded interesting, but it was a little complicated for this old bird. Having played around a bit, why couldn't I just use smartshapes, make them buttons, write the response on each button ('agree' 'strongly agree' etc.) include in quiz and assign a score? Are there shortcomings to this approach?

Thank you for your help.

Report · Aug 01, 2017

That blog post was created quite a while ago. The big advantage of using the default quiz slide cannot be underestimated. Just a few examples: how will you handle the situation where the user wants to change its choice? Every time they'll click a shape button the score is incremented, but what if they want to change that choice? You have to decrement the score for the first choice, then increment for the new choice. It is much less simple as you think, you need a good understanding of advanced actions, variables to create a scenario like that with simple shape buttons. All scores are added to the quizzing system variable cpQuizInfoPointsscored, but that is not really what you want for a survey: you need to see which choice has been taken, maybe have conclusions based on that.

If I had to create this from scratch I would certainly use the Radiobuttons interaction, and a Submit button, not just shape buttons with a score. From another 'old bird'....