Adobe Captivate 2 Question

Question

Hello,
I work at a university library, where we have a library instruction course that includes a 20-question multiple choice quiz.  We were hoping to be able to start administering this quiz online using Adobe Captivate.  We have Adobe Captivate 2 here.
Our set-up would be to have Captivate send us the quiz results through email.  For this to work, each set of quiz results needs to have information to tie it to the particular student who took it.  I thought that the best way to collect this information would be through Text Entry boxes (4 boxes, for first/last name, university ID, and email address).
My problem is that I cannot get the information entered into the Text Entry boxes to show up in the quiz results.  Nothing I try makes this work.  I have selected "Include in Quiz" and "Report answers" in the Reporting tab of the Properties for all four Text Entry boxes.
Neither of the two possible solutions that I have come across for this problem are feasible for our purposes.  One option would be to make these entry boxes into four separate short-answer questions; the problem here is that this would necessitate four separate slides to get this information from our students.  We'd like to have them enter their info all on one slide.
The other option (this was suggested by Adobe Technical Support) would be for me to manually enter the names, IDs, and email addresses of all students into the Properties of the Text Entry boxes as possible "Correct entries" for each box.  This is not very feasible for us--it would require manual entry of information for hundreds of students, and require that we keep up with when new students come in, or transfer.  We would run into a problem the first time a student wants to take the test whose name, ID, etc., are not already in the test.
Is there another way to make this work?  Is it possible to include four Text Entry boxes on one slide, and have what users type in them show up in the quiz results?
Casey Roberson
Davis Memorial Library
Methodist University
Fayetteville, NC

Answer 1

The only thing you do in the Captivate project is to define the user
variables like v_name, v_email, etc. You can find information on creating
user variables in Captivate here
(http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WSCB934979-86BE-40d2-8BB8-A
66956575988.html#WSDF6E7000-1121-4808-B61B-CCAB6A554AD3)
Note that Captivate does NOT include your user variables in the quiz
results. You must use JavaScript or other means to extract the information
from the published SWF. If you are not comfortable with JavaScript or
object-oriented scripting, you will need help here.
Finally, you will need to update/modify the sendMail() function generated by
Captivate (it is in the HTML), to include the variables you created in the
project and populated by your students.
TIP: Note that email results only places the email in the Outbox of the
email client. It does NOT send the email. A student may forget after the
test to start their email to send the results. You may want to explore a
more robust & secure option.