E-mailing quiz results

I am having a problem getting Captivate 4 to e-mail results. I have enabled reporting, selected e-mail as reporting mechanism, put in my e-mail address, and selected e-mail as both the pass/fail option. I publish the file and test it but no e-mail is sent. I click the "Send E-mail" button and nothing happens. Once I get to the results screen and click rewind it will bring up my outlook e-mail window, but no data is in the e-mail.
Is there something that I am missing here?

brysonallen wrote:
Is there something that I am missing here?
Yes... You are missing seeing the hundreds of other posts reporting the same issue.
The bottom line here is that eMail reporting is unreliable at best. If it works for you, count yourself lucky. Maybe even buy yourself a lottery ticket!
You really should consider using the forum search facility to locate reports of eMail issues with Captivate. You will likely be surprised.
You may wish to report it to Adobe as a bug.
Click here to visit the Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form
Cheers... Rick
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I have set up a quiz page within my captivate movie. I have
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send e-mail button appears but fails to send an e-mail. I am
expecting it to open Outlook. What have I missed?

Hi there,
Any chance you can let me see the files in question. I have
used the
Send Email feature in Captivate 1.0 on many occasions and not
experienced problems.
Regards,
Mark
Adobe Community Expert.
mickeyMadness wrote:
> I have set up a quiz page within my captivate movie. I
have configured the
> quiz options so the user can e-mail the results to me. I
have published the
> movie and ran it in a web browser. The send e-mail
button appears but fails to
> send an e-mail. I am expecting it to open Outlook. What
have I missed?
>
>
>
>

Problems e-mailing quiz results

I'm trying to send quiz results to an e-mail address - it
does that fine at the end of the quiz, but it also sends a set of
"fail" stats on most slides, so the person taking the quiz ends up
with a stack of e-mail messages to send! I've tried different
variations of settings in Quiz Manager, I've also tried select the
actual buttons on the screens concerned and under Properties saying
that I do not want results from this screen...but I still get them.
Am I doing something really stupid, and is there an easy
answer to this?
Any help gratefully received!

I don't have an answer for you, but I am having the exact
same issue, so I am thinking if you are doing something stupid, so
am I, or MAYBE there is something wrong with Captivate2. I did this
very successfully in the previous version so I don't know what
could be causing the issue.
P.S. I just downloaded a project from the website and
converted it Captivate2 and published. Previously, it worked but
after conversion it began behaving the same way.

E-Mail Quiz Results AND Score

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related to quiz reporting, and nothing but the final score comes
through. We do not have an LMS, and I fear that Captivate's quiz
reporting setup is geared for folks with an LMS and leaves others
out in the cold. I need a way to report quiz scores and answers to
questions VIA E-MAIL, in the absence of an LMS to store the
results. Anything anyone could offer along these lines? Thank
you.

Or any other LMS, others are free (Sakai, etc), others are
fairly
inexpensive (Inquisiq, WBT Manager).
Or hack the javascript behind the lesson to redirect the
output to a
database instead of out to email.
But, yes, relying on the email solution alone seems
very...risky.
Erik
ahjohnson25 wrote:
> Nevermind. Searched through a few other posts and
discovered it is a universal
> problem with no solution beyond getting moodle.org as a
free LMS, or trying to
> reconfigure the quiz as a Survey with no score.
>
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No Quiz Results in E-mail

Hello,
I created a quiz, and set the results to be e-mailed. When I
tested it with F4, the quiz results showed up in the e-mail. But,
when I publish it and upload the files, the send e-mail button
initiates an e-mail to the correct address, but there are no
results in the e-mail. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks.

techwriter13,
Contact me off-list: Andrew AT LearningConsulting DOT com.
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Andrew

Quiz results not appearing in email body

Using Captivate 2, I set up a quiz that is supposed to send
its results to e-mail. In the Quiz Manager, on the Reporting tab, I
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Report score to LMS as: score
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I'm trying to do the same thing... having set up a small
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page.

Take a look at
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/store_cpresults.html
as it should provide the type of solution you are looking
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Reporting Quiz results when quiz resides on website.

I've gone through all the previous questions, and have spent countless days with the Adobe Live Help staff but cannot get an answer.
Please....is there any way to report- to any LMS, anywhere, alongside the quiz or on a local server, or any other configuration - quiz results, when the quiz is on a website alongside the elearning course.
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Did ANYONE experience success with quiz reporting when the quiz is on a website???
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The email option for communication is likely a thing from yesteryear, when web-mail was largely unknown, as each PC had its own dedicated email "client" (such as Lotus, Outlook, et ux) to which javascript could be passed to perform the mailto: function. Most users today (or the least, a near majority) use web-mail, and there is no mailto: functionality - thus, no use for Captivate's email option on the Success or Failure droplists. I'll leave it to others to correct my misunderstandings ...

Subject line for quiz result email

Hello,
I am still working with Captivate 2 and I am wondering if
there is a way to set the subject line when emailing the quiz
results.
Because I have several Captivate projects with quizzes, I
would like to distinguish between them.
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Matt

Hi Matt
Sure thing. Where you type the E-Mail address, tack on a
question mark followed by subject= so it looks like this:
[email protected]?subject=Any subject here
Note that if you left it at that, Captivate will advise this
isn't a valid address and the dialog won't dismiss. What it's
balking at are the spaces. To overcome this, use %20 where you have
a space. In this case, the line looks like this:
[email protected]?subject=Any%20subject%20here
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How do I only get certain questions appear in the quiz results?

I have created a course through Captivate 6, throughout the course there are questions to guage the learners attention. There is also a quiz at the end. However, captivate includes on the questions throughout the course on the quiz results which I do not want to happen.
Can anyone advise how I can only get certain questions appear on the quiz results please?

Branch aware turns off the playbar in 6 (not in 7 any more, at least not for me).
Could you explain more in detail what you want, because I don't understand it. You want the user to answer all questions, but the score should only show what? If you don't want some questions to have a score added to the Quiz total, you can indicate that in the Properties of that Question slide.
And please, tell the exact number (3 versions of 6), and also if you have to report to a LMS?
Lilybiri

How to send quiz results to a web page?

Okay, this should have taken 2 minutes, not 2 hours. Very frustrating. Here is the situation:
* Downloaded Captivate 5 Trial Version
* Created based quiz (which took forever to figure out how to set the correct answers -- HORRIBLE user interface for setup, but that is another issue)
* I want the results sent to a web page. I will code the web page & database calls, etc. to handle the information (I am a web developer). Just need the information sent somewhere!
Several big issues here:
1. When setting up a URL for the "Pass or Fail", nothing happens. User not taken anywhere. No "Post Results" button shown. The Captivate file just ends and that's it. ??
2. Finally figured out that I needed the "Internal Server" option chosen to have a Post Results button shown. Okay.
So when I click Post Results (after answering the 5 questions correctly), I am shown a login box. Why? What is this for? This is not needed. I am going to an INTERNAL SERVER. It is none of Adobe's business what this person's name/email is. What gives? Okay... anyways, I enter my own Adobe login information. It then says "Connecting..." then I get a Status Message that says "Unknown Error". Keep in mind this will be used by a general audience, of which approximately 99.9% will not have an Adobe ID, nor should they need one.
How I can easily have the Captivate file redirect the user to pages like this: Confirm.aspx?pass=yes or Confirm.aspx?pass=no.
I don't need anything fancy. But I do need something that works. This is terribly frustrating and I'm about to say it just doesn't work. Please tell me I am wrong.
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-Randy

The Quiz Results slide's Continue button actions are set under Quiz Preferences > Pass or Fail > If Passing Grade etc. By default, the Continue button is set to just continue on to the next slide after the Quiz Results.
After the user clicks the Continue button on the Quiz Results slide any Pass/Fail actions you've set up there will be evaluated and executed.
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I have been trying to get my course to open another project (an instruction slide) after the user completes a quiz and it is not working. The course always closes after the quiz results. I have set the Project End Options and the Pass or Fail options to all open another project (the instruction slide), but instead, after the user clicks 'Continue' on the quiz results page, the course always closes. What could I be missing? (Am using Captivate 5.)

Just finally getting my head above water and am able to respond and update. Yes, I was using a tool called RELOAD to update the imsmanifest file. Actually a great tool that I can recommend now that I worked out the kinks with Captivate. Please see this post for more information. http://www.caddicks.com/blog/2012/02/17/how-to-publish-a-multi-file-captivate-project-as-a -single-scorm-course/#comment-249711
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On the last slide of each of the 'sub-topic' projects has the 'Continue' button set to launch the 'main menu' again. Each of these had quiz questions, but feedback was set at the question level only - no quiz results page.
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The first slide is a content slide with instructions for the quiz. When the user clicks the "Back" button from this slide, it will launch the 'main menu' project. 'Next' simply goes to the next slide.
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Slide 7 is a content slide with instructions on what to do next. This slide has a text button that I called "Retry" and under Properties / Reporting for the button the "Include in quiz" is NOT checked. The Retry button takes the user back to the first slide in the quiz.

Can we remove the Continue button from Quiz Results?

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Is there any way to remove the continue button from the Quiz Results page?
I have a captivate file in which there is a Thank you slide at the end after the Quiz results slide. Now, here's the problem - The user is just finishing the quiz and closing the browser tab - which is not showing the completion status inside LMS. The user must need to view the Thank you slide - so that the LMS can respond as "Completed" status.
Now, I want to remove the Continue button on Quizzes result slide so that user doesnot need to go ahead to next slide to complete the course. And i will put the Thank You message here in Quizzes result slide only.
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How to get a question in the course placed anywhere in the course and does not appear in the quiz result or total number of questions. Pretest would work except it can't go anywhere in the course (at least for me it can't)

How to get a question in the course placed anywhere in the course and does not appear in the quiz result or total number of questions. Pretest would work except it can't go anywhere in the course (at least for me it can't)

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