How do I create a typing test in Adobe Captivate?

Question

Does anyone know of a widget or some other way that I can create a typing test in Captivate to evaluate a learner's typing speed and accuracy?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Answer 1

I spend a fair amount of time working to learn some Flash and haunted some Flash coder groups on the set. I think I remember seeing some Flash typing practice code that you could buy. If you can get the fla files perhaps some tweaking could be done so that it can talk to Captivate for some score reporting to the instructor. I don't know enough about that sort of thing to be sure, but it would be worth exploring.
I did a search and there were sevreal hits. THis one looks interesting - http://active.tutsplus.com/tutorials/games/create-a-complete-typing-game-in-flash-with-as3 / . If you have the eLearning Suite, you have Flash available to give it a shot with. I have been gradually learning a little Flash, nothing fancy, mostly drag and drop sorts of things. It isn't too hard to learn, but you need consident time. I get spurts here and there and that has slowed my learning curve down. I start figuring something out and then I get slammed with a high workload and by the time I can get back in to the Flash I forgot much of what I learned and have to relearn it again. sigh. It has a lot of power though and it is always worth learning the tools that make up the tools we use such as Flash, Captivate, Muse, Edge, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, etc. I hope you are like me and you absolutely love the thrill of figuring out how to get an idea to a nice looking and great working product for students. Too many cool tools and ideas and too little time. lol