About Question Pool

I have some requirement,
I have 2 Pool in Question Manager, Each pool having 10 question
I need 5 random question. now when we insert randon question captivate have option that from which pool u need to insert that's fine.
But is there any way that we can select pool as per our requirement before performing test.
Example
I have L, M, H pool
now i need to take test according to person skill, so when Lower person come then i can select L pool runtime(during swf running) then 5 random question ask from L pool, if Medium person come then i select M runtime, and Higher person come then i can select H.
Means this option i can set during swf running(runtime) according to that my Random question comes from.

Hi there
Am I correct in that you asked the same question in the thread linked below:
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So you started a new thread in response to clarify that?
My guess is that you can take two different approaches.
Approach number 1:
Create three different Captivate projects. One for the L users, one for the M users and one for the H users. Then have a fourth project that determines which type of user you have. After determining the type, this project will then open the appropriate second project.
Approach number 2:
Everything is inside a single Captivate project. You have a section with five random questions from pool L, another section with five random questions from pool M and a third section with five random questions from pool H. Then in an early slide you determine which section they should be in and you jump to that section.
Hopefully that helps... Rick
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I made a quiz for a client, published it out and everything works perfectly. Now the client has decided that they want the questions to be random. I have tried to add my existing question slides to the question pool, however I have no idea how to do this correctly. Nothing I try seems to work - the only tutorial I could find was on the Adobe site and it simply said to create a question pool and then drag the slides to the timeline, replacing the question pool slides with the existing slides. But I cannot drag the slides for some reason, and I am very confused about these directions, they don't seem to mesh with my version of Captivate.
My questions weren't part of a question pool when I developed this quiz as I had no idea such a thing existed. And now I see through every tutorial I find, a question pool is necessary for randomizing the questions. So, my question is... is there a way to do this with existing question slides, or will I have to start all over again?

Hi there
Should be even simpler. Select the question slides and right-click. There should be an option to send them to the desired pool!
Cheers... Rick

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Hello all,
I have created quizes using some simulation slides. One slide, click where type questions.
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Hi Terry
To my knowledge only Question Slides may be part of a Pool. As you are talking about Animations, my guess is that it won't be possible because of the way the developers have structured Captivate and the Question Pooling feature.
Perhaps others have a different viewpoint.
Cheers... Rick
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Hi All!
There has been very short time between the Captivate releases
but I'm very happy about all the new features. Still I feel like
Captivate 3 is more like a beta release because of several annoying
problems. Perhaps it's just me?
I'm starting a blank project and importing a preferences file
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"settings" right and like I said it works sometimes as expected.
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Thanks

Good day, Heffalompen
While I won't be able to provide any of the technical reasons
why things work as they do (or don't
) I would think that for the question pool imports,
it would work like this.
Our story begins with a small journey into the fascinating
world of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). If you know anything about
them, it may help this analogy. If not, I should still be able to
help shed some light. CSS is used in conjunction with HTML pages to
influence formatting. For example, using CSS you may state that all
normal text on a page will be presented to the user in Arial font
at 12 points and bright red color. If you link that file to HTML
pages, you may literally influence thousands upon thousands of
pages with one simple CSS file. So think of your preferences file
as the CSS file I just described.
Within each HTML page, you have the ability to render certain
select bits of text as you wish. Again, using the principles of
CSS, you may elect to apply what is called an "in-line" style to
the text. Maybe you want this specific text to be bold, Tahoma font
16 points and bright purple color. And so it is.
But here's the deal. Later, you decide to change the
foundation CSS file. Perhaps changing the font to green text. You
make the change to the CSS and whoosh. That change cascades through
all your linked HTML files. EXCEPT, those bits of text where you
applied the In-Line formatting. Those are left alone, because you
explicitly applied a style that stated these are different and here
are their rules. So think about those imported questions as having
in-line styling applied.
As for the "Apply to all" setting, I think that this one may
not work 100% as one would hope it would. For me, it's occasionally
been a "hit and miss" affair. Not always, but sometimes.
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I'm wondering if anyone else out there is experiencing
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MtnBiker1966,
I have noticed the same problem. I only have 60 slides with
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How can I get Captivate to score across multiple question pools?

I have set up a Captivate assessment as follows:
A core set of 50 questions will be presented to all learners
Depending on where the learner is, he will receive an additional 10 questions from one of 5 location-specific pools
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All of that seems to be working as designed but the scoring is not behaving as I had expected; despite the fact that all questions are asked before the review slide is presented (i.e. all questions are within the quiz scope in both the edit-time and run-time sense) the review slide only reports results from the first question pool. For example, in a test file I reduced the question slides for the first pool to only display 2 questions, for a total of 12 presented, but my results show "0 of 2 correct" or "2 of 2 correct." The pass/fail results of the module match the review slide, so this is not a simple display issue; if I miss either of the two questions from the first pool I fail regardless of what happens in the second pool.
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Thanks for the quick response ...
I had already tried deleting the review slide itself, though Captivate wouldn't let me - it just hid it. I tried again using the method you recommended but the slide remained in the filmstrip, so I tried deleting again, then re-added it from the Quiz Settings page ... no joy, same behavior as before.
I checked the Advanced Interaction page and confirmed that all of the scored questions were configuredthe same way as the non-scored questions, with the only difference being the pool that they were drawing from.
Other thoughts? I am by no means a Captivate expert but this one really feels like it shouldn't be this hard, and I'm more than a little afraid that it's the file itself that's jacked up ...

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I would like to make a question pool
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Thanks.

I would use the XML function from Captivate 4.
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Good point to start with is ns1:g and ns1:Source26.
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Mr_TD

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Welcome to our community, IDWT
Have you tried opening just one of the questions for editing
in the smaller project?
Sometimes that is all that is needed with some applications.
You may find that the elements pop into the viewable area if you do
that.
Then again, it may make no difference whatsoever. Nothing
should be lost by trying to see.
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I am putting together a bunch of quiz modules & I am having so many problems with this, it's driving me crazy!
I am using question pools & I have a bunch of questions in my pool. I am trying to edit the questions to place a time limit on each one. When I edit the question, I choose the Options tab & select Show time out message. I then choose the Reporting tab & enter a time limit of two minutes. Yes, the Time limit selection box is checked.
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The crazy thing is that I have been putting these modules together all day & this is the first one that is acting this way! I have successfully added time limits to other quiz modules.
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Yes, I have a few threads going... I'm having a lot of problems!
The other thread that Rod is helping me with is related to a different issue.... although it's still quiz-related.
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I'm thinking maybe the files that I'm taking the questions FROM might be corrupted in some way? Although, in the original files, the questions do NOT have a time limit. This is something new I am adding after I bring them into my question pool.
I will do what you suggest... if you have any other ideas, I would surely welcome those as well!!
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Quiz slide not advance when using question pools and advance answer options?

Hi,
I am using CP 5.5. I created a small test where I have just 2 question in a question pool. The questions are using the advanced answer options to show some specific feedback. When I insert the questions in to the project using a random question slide, after the user answers where you should be able to press Y or click to move on, I click, but nothing happens. You can't get off the quiz slide. The quiz slides work fine when they are inserted in the project as reqular quiz slides, but not when they are being pulled from a question pool.
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I was having the same problem on the last Random Question slide (total 10 RQ slides), and was able to fix it by following the next steps:
Make sure Quiz: Pass or Fail actions are set to Continue for both Passing and Failing actions in the quiz preferences.
Delete the RQ slide not advancing, then duplicate one of the RQ slides working, and assign your question pool to the new slide if different from the original duplicate. This step will make sure you are using a good working RQ slide.
For some reason, my last RQ slide was corrupted and wasn't advancing to the Score slide at the end of the quiz.
I can finally finish this project.
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Captivate 4 Question Pool Slides Show Ghosts

Random question slides display captions from previous slides
when I publish to Flash 8-10. Publishing to Flash 7 or using the
same questions (but not as random questions) cures the problem.
The captions appear on all but one random question slide (8
of 10 doesn't display the problem). The captions are from four
upstream slides each of which has different rollover captions. The
problematic question slides show all the rollover captions,
superimposed over the question.
The PC showing the problem is running Win XP SP3, Flash WIN
10,0,22,87. Other PC's at the same site do have the problem when
running the same published show.
I've tried recreating the question pool from the original
question slides, recreating the random question slides,
uninstalling and reinstalling Flash on the target PC with the same
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Transition for Question Pool Slides

Captivate v5.5
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I have applied "Blinds" as a transition option to all 20 slides in the question pool.
When I test the questions (F8 starting on the slide before the first random question slide), the transitions do not work.
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Hi Rod,
I previewed the whole project (F4) and still the transition did not work.
Having to publish it (eg to .exe I presume you mean) before I can check the slide transition seems a little long winded - but I will give it a go just in case.
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We are updating a course we developed last year (prior to
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Hi Jan
Sure thing. Just convert the version 1 or 2 project to a
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that, switch to Storyboard view. Select the question slides you
wish to add to the pool and right-click. You should be presented
with an option to add the selected slides to the pool.
Once you have moved the question slides to a pool, you would
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Cheers... Rick

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I have 30 questions in my question pool. I have 10 random question slides but everytime I go to quiz, the same 10 questions come up. I need help in troubleshooting this, please.

Once you launch a module and it sets up the specific questions that will be selected from the pool for that session, those are the only 10 questions you are going to see, no matter how many times you hit the Retake Quiz button. That is normal behaviour.
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I have several question pools which have the option to be taken independently or separately.
If the user does not take all seven of the modules then the quiz results slide at the end is incorrect as it will report all of the questions not just the ones attempted.
I have tried the Branch aware option in the quiz results option but that did not worth.
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Rick

Branch aware should be just fine for that case, why do you tell it is not working? Branch Aware Quiz - Captivate blog
When you say 'score slide is not reporting correctly', I had no such problems.
You could create a custom score slide indeed, using variables, but what if you have to report as a SCORM? Only possibility in that case is Branch aware.

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