Add random questions automatically

Hi is there a way where the user can set the number of questions they would like to answer?
thanks in advance

Hi Michael
Hmmm, I'm not so convinced this isn't possible. Why couldn't a Text Entry Box be used to gather the desired number of questions? For example, provide a range of say one to 20. Then store this in a variable. Then you could program a series of 20 random questions. But as each question is encountered, you could check and set variables. Then once the magickal desired number was met, finish the project.
While it would be a bit of an effort, I could see that working.
Just thinking out loud a bit... Rick
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Convert to Question Pool random questions?

We are updating a course we developed last year (prior to
Captivate 3). This year we want to apply Captivate 3's "Question
Pool random questions" to this course. Is there a way to create the
question pool(s) in this existing quiz, and then add last year's
questions to them without having to re-enter each question into the
Question Pool Manager?
Thank you for any tips!

Hi Jan
Sure thing. Just convert the version 1 or 2 project to a
version 3 project. Then define a Question Pool. Once you have done
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
then insert Random slides that point to the pool.
Cheers... Rick

Random Questions crash

Hi
I'm trying to use the Random Questions in Captivate3 using
built up pools of questions, every time I try to preview the
project it loads 25% and stays there for ever (hold the project).
Has any one come across a solution to this problem?
Thanks
Anahad

Hi,
How big is the question-pool that you are trying to publish ?
Ideally a pool in CP3 should not have more that 15-20 questions, Also the project itself should not have more that 40-50 slides.
To check if this is a bug or not try out the following steps :-
1) copy 2 questions from your pool.
2) close the project.
3) create a new project.
4) open quiz pool manager.
5) paste the questions to the default pool.
6) add couple of random questions in the project.
7) preview and check
Manoj

Quiz of random questions

i have made a question pool of some 30 questions various
types.... fill in the blanks, matching, multiple choice etc
now i want to create a quiz of some random 10 questions....
one question on each slide. at the end i want the result to be
declared.
now what i do is create a new slide with random quiz and it
creates one question from the pool and declare result. i dont want
that. what do i do.

Hi Nicky
I'm a bit confused. I thought you said you *wanted* to
present ten random questions. If that's what you want, that's how
it's done. You declare a pool, add questions to the pool, then
insert Random Question Slides. So if you want ten, you insert ten
different Random Question Slides and when presented to the user,
they see randomizing.
Perhaps it will help if you state what you want or how you
expected it to work.
Cheers... Rick

Branching with random questions

Captivate newbie here...
I am trying to create a Jeopardy-style quiz in Captivate 3
using random questions which are contained in separate pools for
each question category. The game board is on slide 2 and it has 20
transparent buttons with "jump to slide" actions, each of which
points to a random question slide. The random questions slides have
a Submit button and a Back button, which I intend to cause a
backward jump to the game board. The branching tree view shows one
navigation arrow (black) from slide 2 to each question slide, and
each question slide shows "Jump to slide 2" actions for both
success and failure.
I had hoped that the jump back to the gameboard would be
automatic after the user answers the question, but it isn't. The
Back button on each slide must be used to get back to the
gameboard, but sometimes it takes the user back to previous slides,
with their already-answered questions, and the user must hit the
back button many times to get back to the gameboard.
I used the downloadable sample Jeopardy game from this site
as inspiration, but it's not really a quiz. In it, the user does
not enter an answer; instead, the answer is presented via a
rollover.
So I guess the question is, can you use navigation with
random question slides?

Hi ImagineerBill and welcome to our community
As you have seen, Captivate isn't too keen on allowing
Question slides to be presented in any order. I know this probably
sounds contrary to how random question slides work. But please hear
me out.
Captivate normally moves from slide to slide in a linear
manner. This introduces a problem if you desire to branch backward
in a quiz.
The answer to your actual question of "Can you branch from
Random Questions" is that you can. But you need to consider how the
branching will work and how it may affect scoring.
We see a similar issue erupt when you wish to have a common
slide with many links that may be launched. Often, the person is
desiring that as the original slide is returned to, the visited
slide is somehow marked as having been visited. And as you have
seen, this is exactly how the Jeopardy style game works. It works
by exploiting a bug/feature/callit what you want with Captivate.
This is the feature of a slide retaining the moused over state when
you have a rollover on it that is combined with a Click Box object.
Because the slide is presenting the rollover as if you were still
mousing over it, it indicates the destination has been visited.
To be honest, I'm not sure a solution exists for what you are
seeking. Unless you might construct the random slides as a series
that must be answered in a specific order, but presenting random
questions until you exhaust the pool.
Cheers... Rick

[captivate 3] random question slide doesn't work

hello,
I'm noob in Captivate.
I use Captivate demo (in french).
I want to make a quizz for my students.
So, I create a "question pool manager" with 1 pool project
"reseau_locaux".
This pool project have 13 questions.
Then I click "slides" on the filmstrip, I add a "Random
question slide" and I click on the "Question pool menu" to select
my pool project "reseau_locaux"
After generating project, I have only 1 question from my
question pool project.
I read the help guide but it's not help me.
It gets me crazy...
I hope you understand my english.
thanks

Welcome to our community, Anthony
Basically you are doing everything right. I'm a bit unclear
on what you were expecting to see. Perhaps it will help you if I
explain how the Question Pools and Random Questions work.
You define a pool of questions using the Question Pools
Manager. You advise you have done that. So far so good.
You then insert a Random Question Slide. When you insert one
of these, you point the slide at a Question Pool. You advise that
you have done that too.
I'm guessing here that perhaps you expected that by inserting
a single Random Question Slide you would end up presenting all 13
questions from the pool. Just in random order?
If so, that's not how it was designed to work. What happens
is that a single random question from the pool is presented. If you
desire to see all 13 of your questions, but in random order, you
need to insert 13 Random Question Slides and point them at your
Question Pool.
You may wonder at this point if you do this, will it would be
possible to see perhaps question 2 multiple times. And the answer
to that is no. Once a question has been presented, it is removed
from consideration in the pool. So after the first one is
presented, Captivate randomizes from what remains in the pool.
Hopefully that helps better explain it.
Cheers... Rick

Outlook recipient added randomly and automatically

One user in our exchange organization is randomly and automatically added to the TO or the CC field when a sender is sending e-mail. This sometimes happens when a new mail is started and more often, but NOT always when someone replies to an e-mail. Because it is happening often and with various users we ruled out that it has something to do with the autofill option in Outlook.
searching internet did not come up with any similar problem.
Exchange 2003, outlook 2003
At this moment we only know this occurring with only one recipient. But not sure because this kind of errors are not always reported, one can think it is a mistake one made by himself, outlook autofill.

Hi Pieter,
I am sorry for delay in response.
As the issue occurs randomly and cannot always be reproduced, I would like to explain that we may take a long time to troubleshoot and narrow down the issue.
I think the issue can be caused by two factors:
1. The Outlook add the specific recipient to To/CC list when submit the message to Exchange Server
2. The Exchange server add the specific recipient to To/CC list when process the message.
As when the issue occurs, the specific recipient can be located in the message in the Send Items folder of the sender. I suspect the issue may related to Outlook Client. I suggest we attempt the following steps on a problem sender client which the issue occurs mostly frequently to troubleshoot the issue:
Step 1: Disable Outlook 2003 third-party Add-ins
============================
1. Launch Outlook application.
2. Click Tools --> Options, click Other tab.
3. Click Advanced Options.
4. Click COM Add-Ins button.
5. Uncheck All Add-ins.
6. Backup these registry entries and then delete them one by one.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Extensions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Addins
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Extensions
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Addins
Note: If some of them are not existed, please ignore.
Step 2: Clear corrupted Rules by using MFCMapi tool:
====================================
You can refer to following article:
How to delete corrupted and hidden rules from a single mailbox in Outlook 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924297/en-us
Note: If it is possible, I suggest that you do not import the rules to the Outlook 2003 temporarily for test purpose. Nevertheless, if we need to import rules to Outlook 2003, please check whether any sending message rules (Apply this rule after I send the message) are configured. If the rules are configured, please delete them to check the result.
Step 3: Please start Outlook by using /Safe switch and monitor whether the issue occurs again.
Step 4: Check if 3rd party DLL files exist by using Process Explorer on the client
=================================
1) Download Process Explorer from the following site:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx
2) Launch Outlook application.
3) Run Process Explorer as administrator, accepted license.
4) Locate to outlook.exe, and select Outlook.exe, click view --> Lower Pane View --> DLLS, and then click “Company Name” to sort by company name.
5) Check if there are any third-party company’s add-ins still exist.
In addition, please enable message tracking on the exchange server (I assume that you have only one Exchange server in the environment).
In case the issue occurs again, please help me gather the related message tracking log to me at [email protected]. Please also let me know:
1. The Sender name and email address
2. The recipient name and email address
3. The problem message id
4. The “Not Intended” user name and email address
Thanks,
Mike
PS: Would you please let me know how often the issue occurs normally?

When I attempt to sign up for the Samsung website using Firefox on my macbook, it returns an error that the random question answer is wrong

I was attempting to create a user at this site:
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It asks a "random" questions "Floors are horizontal, walls are ___?" When I hit submit, it returns an error that the answer was wrong. I tried several times using my macbook running firefox.
I get to work, where I am using an intel based machine running Windows 7, IE 9 and am able to register on the site and answer the question with no problem.
I have had the same problem on sites that use captcha - I cannot get past inputting the captcha phrase, as it returns an error every time, while using IE9 is problem free.
Is there something wrong with my setup of Firefox?

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Note: ''This will cause you to lose any Extensions, Open websites, and some Preferences.''
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#Go to Firefox > Help > Troubleshooting Information.
#Click the "Reset Firefox" button.
#Firefox will close and reset. After Firefox is done, it will show a window with the information that is imported. Click Finish.
#Firefox will open with all factory defaults applied.
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When i open a new document, my "width" and "lenght" add two zeros automatically to file size??? For example basic A4 size in mm is 210 00mm x 297 00mm? And i can´t do nothing about it! Why on earth?

When i open a new document, my "width" and "lenght" add two zeros automatically to file size??? For example basic A4 size in mm is 210 00mm x 297 00mm? And i can´t do nothing about it! Why on earth?
This "error note" must have something to do about it?

elppaelo,
You may try the list.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
If possible/applicable, you should save curent artwork first, of course.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
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Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Two random questions

hey guys.. i have two random questions..
1) when you recalibrate your battery... after you drain the computer and leave it for 5 hours.. when you RECHARGE IT (before its fully recharged) are you allowed to use it? or are you only allowed to use the macbook AFTER it's recharged... (because in the instructions it only talks about using it for the 2 hours AFTEr it's rechaarged)
2) also... i always wondered if there was a better alternative between amc the ripper and handbrake (since mac the ripper apparently can rip different region coded dvds)... but ir ealised mac the ripper does FULL dvd rips whilst handbrake converts it into like mp4 and stuff... is that true? (as in.. u cant do vice versa on each?)
thanks a buncho everybody! go the mac..

2) I use handbrake if I am planning on watching the
DVD on my ipod etc and Mac the Ripper to copy
(Backup) full DVDs. Obviously I do this in America as
it's illegal for some reason in the UK.
It is illegal in the US too. Seems "fair use" does not apply to DVDs and disabling the copy protection (which you do when you rip your DVD via mac the ripper or handbrake) is against the law.

Publishing w/ Random Questions

Hi,
I am using random questions in one of my programs and about
to send it off to the client. This client has Captivate and would
like for me to send the CP files. My question is, if I send the CP
file for the program, will the random questions in the pool go with
it? If not, how do I get them there?
Many thanks for your help!

Hi gbcvette
Yes, your random questions would be contained inside the .CP
file.
Cheers... Rick

HTML random question score incorrect. SWF works fine

Version 8.0.1.242
Question pool 25 questions. Random Question slides inserted. All questions set to score 1. 24 are multichoice, all standard.
Published as HTML
Score reported is 1 out of x.
I have tested with 3, 5 and 25 random questions from the pool. But the score is always 1 out of x
Published as SWF
Works correctly
I really need the HTML version.
Closed, reloaded. Saved as - retested. Turned it off and turned it back on. Sacrificed a mouse...
Andy

Correct questions
....Should be same as total points scored anyway as there is 1 point for
each question.

Random question slide not shown when FP 8 or FP 9 output

Hi everyone
I've just begun to use Captivate a month ago, so it is not
that much experience I can contribute with by now.
One thing I have recognized is that I get some problems with
random questions slides made from different question pools when
using Flash Player 8 or 9 in the output otions.
When using Flash Player 7 everything works as supposed: one
random question is shown for every random question slide using one
distinct question pool for each random question slide.
When using one of the two others some of my random question
slides are not shown. There are slides that are played - meaning
that the player shows an empty slide for the time of 3 seconds -
but the content is not shown. This happens only for some of the
random question slides, and those are the same question slides each
time, I publish - but when working or dragging around with the
random question slides and publish again, the problem would come
with some other random question slides, not positioned the same
place as before, but showing the same problem in each published
version.
As written before each question pool is only used once. The
different question slides used in the question pools are all
duplicates, naturally with adjusted content.
Does anyone has experienced something like that before? Could
there be any other trouble with the content when using Flash Player
7 in the output options, like quiz not playing in newly updated
Flash Players ore something like that? Anything?
I appreciate your suggestions or comments! Thanks in advance
and kind regards,
Lars

Some more info - and a working solution...
I have worked on this topic a bit more - and found out, that
I have a problem with output option set to Flash Player 7, too.
When I delete every other navigation option than the "next
question" (what is it called in english?) button, I get this
problem:
The quiz now "freezes" randomly, not every time, but again
and again. The quiz has both random slides from question pools and
simple question slides.
I have found out, that putting the simple question slides
into question pools and then showing a random slide from those
question pools fixes the problem.
Has anyone experienced problems like that? Other solutions?
Kind regards
Lars
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