Quiz with 3 Tracks and Related questions

Report · Apr 13, 2016

Hi, I’m very new to Captivate and the forum so thank you in advance for any help. I did a search on the site for this question and found various questions that have some similar themes, but none that are specific to my dilemma.

I have to create the following quiz using Captivate9 and hosted on a SCORM 2.0 LMS for the iPad:

The quiz has 3 tracks – Track 1, Track 2, Track 3. They will take each Track over a 6-week period, one Track every 2 weeks – they can chose what order they take them.
There’s a pool of questions – 30 for each Track. The questions need to be randomized and the learner will only answer 8 questions for each Track. Questions will be scored – Learners will receive points for correct answers and loose points for wrong answers.
The 30 questions for each track are similar/related – that is question 1/Track 1 is similar to question 1/Track 2, and question 1/Track 3, etc. If a learner gets a question wrong on one Track, I need to make sure, the related question is assigned to the learner on Tract 2 or Tract 3, whichever they choose next to do. The rest of the questions still need to be random from the remaining questions for that Track.

Is this type of functionality capable using Captivate9 and if so, how do I solve for this?

Thank you again in advance for any help you can provide.

~Eric

Report · Apr 13, 2016

Some of it is possible with Captivate. But you're not going to be able to get your number 3 wish because you cannot control which randomised questions appear.

Report · Apr 13, 2016

Rod, Thanks for your quick response. Ok, instead of randomizing the questions, what if I create 3 versions of each track - 1A, 1,B, 1C, 2A, etc. 8 questions each, and then don't randomize the questions but randomize the track. So learner one selects Track 1 and gets version B. He gets question Track 1B Q3 wrong. When he goes to the next track, say Track 3, he gets version A which has 8 related questions so he'll automatically get the related Q3 question in Track 3A.

Is there a way to randomize which quiz version they get - so when they open the main screen, they select Track 1 - they'll get either version A, B, or C - at random?

Thanks again.

Report · Apr 13, 2016

Apart from the Random Question slide option where the questions are drawn from a quiz question pool, Captivate has no other built in method of randomising anything.

You would need to do some JavaScript programming to randomise which of the three tracks gets selected first. It looks to me like that's the ONLY real part that is random, because whatever they get right or wrong after that seems to determine which other questions they should be navigated to.

Captivate has the Branch Aware feature that allows your users to ONLY be scored according to the question slides they actually visited.

But I think your other issue is going to be making sure that your LMS supports bookmarking well enough to have the learners come back to this same unfinished module over a period of six weeks and yet NOT lose any data.

Report · Apr 13, 2016

Yes, I agree. I'm assuming it does (handled by another company) since they want a leader board to track everyone's progress. My other concern about not randomizing the questions is that the learner will really be answering the same question 3x, just related differently. I don't know if the company whats that. They are providing the questions. If I go this way, I'll need to get a JS programmer as well.

Thanks

Eric