Format of the Random Questions

Hi -
I'm creating random quizzes. When I review the pool questions the format is terrible. The answers aren't in a line and are displayed all over the bottom half of the slide. Is there a way to get the display to be more consistent or do I have to manually fix each slide?
Thanks!

Hi,
I cannot understand what do you mean when you say "when I review the slide on the left side of the window pane"
Are you talking about the Filmstrip ? Yes. The Filmstrip.
How does the output appear when you publish the project to swf ? I haven't published it. It just appears inconsistent in the Filmstrip on the spacing and location of the answers.
Also which type of questions do you have in the pool (multiple choice, true false etc..) ?
So far all multiple choice. I only have about 14 questions so far.

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Hi Everyone,
I am interested in exactly how the Random Question Pool
works. Let's say there are 50 questions in the question pool and
you want 10 questions from that question pool of 50. When you
publish I understand you will get 10 random questions from the 50
questions. Then when you run your published project are you always
going to get the same 10 questions or another 10 of the 50 pooled
questions everytime your run that same published project? Or do you
have to publish again, calling the quiz another name to get another
10 of 50 questions from the question pool? I appreciate the help on
this.

Hi slewis6337
It is my understanding that each time you
display the Captivate output, you see a totally random
question. So if your question pool contains 50 questions, each time
your Captivate output presents the random question and draws from
the pool, it is truly drawing a totally random question.
I do believe that Captivate does keep track of which
questions have been used in the pool. To test this, try creating a
pool containing three questions. Then create four random question
slides that point at the pool. Then try running the Captivate. You
should see that as random question number four is encountered, the
screen goes totally gray. This is happening because you have
exhausted the question pool.
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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
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it? If not, how do I get them there?
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Hi gbcvette
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file.
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I've just begun to use Captivate a month ago, so it is not
that much experience I can contribute with by now.
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time, I publish - but when working or dragging around with the
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Some more info - and a working solution...
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Hi all!
We are working on creating several new quizzes for our
certifcation programs. Currently each of the quizzes contains
several Question Pools , each covering the a particular area of the
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slide 2 picks from Topic A, slide 3 picks from topic C, slide 4
from topic B again, etc etc
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This deal with your question?

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Captivate newbie here...
I am trying to create a Jeopardy-style quiz in Captivate 3
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each question category. The game board is on slide 2 and it has 20
transparent buttons with "jump to slide" actions, each of which
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Hi again
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sage1990 wrote:
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