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Hi,
I'm running into an issue with Captivate 4. I created a 20 question quiz which uses the question pool to randomly sort the order. When I either preview it or publish the quiz, as I run through the quiz, it freezes.
What happens is, after I select the submit button, it gives me the feedback caption. When I click anywhere to continue, the caption disappears then the slide freezes. It doesn't proceed to the next question. Also, it's not consistent, each time I run the quiz it freezes at different points.
When I take these questions out of the pool, the quiz runs fine.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
eLearnDude

I have done a couple of things to get it working like I have separated all of the different quiz type questions into separate pools and pull random questions from each pool. I have also stopped using the multiple choice slides with single correct answer only (this was from David) although I feel it defeats the usability of the quiz module in Captivate if you cant use all of the different types. But for this one I just need to get it out.
I will have to go back and do some testing with other types later to see if it is just that one type causing the issues or if it was the fact I had them all in one pool instead of splitting them up into different ones.
I did received feed back from Adobe and they just said "Most likely cause is a corrupted file" rebuild the file. since half of the people in my test group did not have issues and some did I don't believe the file was corrupted.
Mike

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