skipping knowledge checks vs regular slides

[chrismay_at_delta]

I am running into something weird.

I am creating a lesson where the user will select the group to which they belong, one of ten groups. This will set a variable with a value of the group id.

I have some slides and some knowledge-checks that unique to each group.

I have some advanced actions running on enter  that checks the group of the user, if the slide is not meant for the user's group, captivate is issued the command to go to the next slide.

When going through regular content slides, when a user comes to a section of slide not meant for them, the content area is blank for a fraction of a second and you can see the playbar advancing rapidly through those slides. Once the user hits a slide they are supposed to see, content shows up and everything works great, as expected.

BUT once I add in knowledge-check slides things go wonky.

The scripts and navigation still work fine, a user will rapidly progress through the slides until they reach a slide they are supposed to see. What is different it that the users get a quick flash (one frame?) of of each of the knowledge-check slide contents as they are moving rapidly through the slides they are supposed to skip.

Has anyone experienced this and come up with a solution?

I have tried to add some javascript to change the CSS to hide they question elements, but my CSS changes seem to get overridden by the Captivate player.

Thanks!

[Stagprime]

How are you getting to the other slides? What sequence of actions?

I typically use "Jump to Slide X" actions which bypass all the other stuff and just hit the slide number that I indicate.

I would not expect to see a brief glimpse of anything.

[chrismay_at_delta]

The player progresses linearly through every slide.

The action on each on entry is basic: if userGroup does not equal 2 then next slide.

I am trying to use this method, because it is so much faster to develop rather than keeping track of all that branching for 10 different groups. It becomes overwhelming when you have some slides that all groups need to see, some slides only some groups need to see, and some slides that are unique to each group. If something is not working with my method, all you have to do is check the action on the slide that is showing/hiding incorrectly.

[chrismay_at_delta]

Here is a video of whats going on:

And here is a screen shot of the slides in the project:

[Lilybiri]

I will leave you to StagPrime, but my experience tells me that you can often avoid a lot of problems by rearraging the slide sequence. The flickering can be reduced by adding short Fade in transitions to the objects (not to the slide, slide transitions are not valid for HTML outputà.

[Stagprime]

Hmm...

I think I would have to understand a little more of the flow to suggest something different for the branching aspect.

What if the knowledge check slides had a blank shape over the top for the first few frames that disappeared if you were to land on that slide but is there long enough to just appear blank when travelling past?

[Lilybiri]

@StagPrime Custom objects on a question/KC slide are always under the embedded objects of that slide in the z-order.

[VickieM]

Hi Chris,

Suggestions:

Consider testing a regular Question Slide to see if you get the same results of flickering. Uncheck the reporting of answers located under the Quiz tab. The question should not report anything to the LMS for scoring.  You can hide the Quiz Results page because as you know it is generated when a Question Slide is used.  

Not sure if the progress bar will be a part of your finished project, but I would uncheck it in the Skin Editor so that it does not appear with the other functions on the playbar.  Users may use it to skip ahead and that could cause other issues.

Thanks 

[Lilybiri]

KC slides and quiz slides use exactly the same master slides, wonder why they would behave differently? Because KC slides are reset automatically when leaving them?

[chrismay_at_delta]

Veem -

Nope, replacing the KC slide with a normal quiz slide produces the same results.

[VickieM]

Hi Chris,

Don't give up.  I know it can be rather frustrating.  The answer is out there.  If something seems to be a fix, I will let you know. 

Thanks

[Jeremy Shimmerman]

I think there something going on with your advanced actions - they are triggering when you enter the slide.  Could you post a shot of your advanced actions?

[chrismay_at_delta]

The advanced actions are very simple. Not sure what could be wrong, but here they are!

[Lilybiri]

Please, especially when posting a conditional action, use the Preview screen, so that all decisions and the ELSE parts are visible. The Preview button is the first button in the op right control panel (arrow). All functionality of the Advanced Actions dialog box are explained in:

Advanced Actions Dialog box in Captivate 2017 - Captivate blog

You show that the shared action is used, what did you define as parameter, the variable cmtest?