Pretest Capability in Captivate 8

[trillium68]

I want to create a pretest which will determine if new hires are qualified to take a proficiency quiz to determine their skill level with the electronic medical record system our organization uses.

If new hires meet the requirements of the pretest, they can take the proficiency quiz.

If new hires do not meet the requirements of the pretest, they must attend a class.

If a new hire "fails" the pretest, is there a way to generate a results page (to print & fax to Human Resources) or generate and send an e-mail? I'm looking for some method to notify Human Resources that the new hire did not meet the pretest requirements & must attend a class.

(FYI...this pretest & proficiency quiz will live outside our LMS because the new hires will not yet have employ IDs or access to our Intranet.)

Thank you, in advance, for any assistance!

[RodWard · Accepted solution]

Captivate can certainly offer the ability to create both a Pretest and a Quiz in the same project.  However, it has no facility to automatically send an email without requiring the intervention of the person that took the test.  For that to happen you would need to have some custom coding done so that data was passed from the Captivate module to a server-side page that then sent the email.

[Lilybiri]

To add to Rod's information, you have to know that the results of the Pretest are stored in dedicated quizzing system variables. You can download a table with all system variables (explanation added) from this blog post:

System variables in Captivate 8/9 - Captivate blog

Using those variables you can create a score slide for the Pretest and/or use them in a mail which you can set up using JS.