Negative scoring in Captivate

I have read the discussions on not being able to have a negative scoring on a Quiz in Captivate 5.5. Does anyone know of a JavaScript or anything that will do this?

Have a look at Trihan's possible solution, described in this blog post:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/report_custom_scorm_variables_with_javascript
Lilybiri

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Let me present this as a scenario...
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I will be giving my OCA SQL Expert exam and would like to know about the scoring system of oracle in these exams like
1. Are there any negatives i.e does marking an answer wrong deduct points?
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Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

964247 wrote:
I will be giving my OCA SQL Expert exam and would like to know about the scoring system of oracle in these exams like
1. Are there any negatives i.e does marking an answer wrong deduct points?
2. Are there different marks for different questions or do all questions carry equal weightage?
Any help would be greatly appreciated :)I am always a little more strict in giving answers to those going for those giving exams for OCE and OCP certifications, as IMHO it is important for candidates to seek out infomation for themselves.
- In an ideal world i tell people to goto the certification.oracle.com and seek support/FAQ and the section 'Taking the exam' where such questions are answered.
However the answer is not directly there.
So without trailing through a couple of other places where you might find an authorative reference i'll given my best opinion:
All questions care equal weightage (thought exceptionally there may be 1/2 unmarked trial questions in your exam ... but that would be invisable to you ... these carry no marks whether you get it right wrong).
And You either get the question totally 'right' (in the exams eyes) or you get no marks ... there is no negative scoring .... a guess does not give a worse outcome than unanswered or not fully answered)

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My issue with a little more detail: We are replacing the ageing, proprietary content creation solution of our LMS supplier with Captivate. The main purpose of our LMS is not providing learning-courses but testing our users with quizzes.
We are required (strictly governmentally regulated business) to train and quiz our employees on certain topics. So the main functionality used of Captivate, Version 6 btw, is the quizzing functionality. We went for Captivate because it's got the question pool ability which by the newest prescription we are required to deploy in our 2013 line of employee certification tests/quizzes.
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Of course, the user could just review the whole quiz and quickly skip all questions answered correctly and discuss the ones the user failed. But this somehow doesn't seem right and unprofessional, especially since the old solution could do that since years. At least a hint which questions the user got wrong would be the minimum expected...
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I should need some reflection time, trying to find a way to reuse variables... It could help if I had an example to work on, should that be possible? You have certainly click boxes over all the letters? But normally you do not have 100 letters, or are you talking about something else than a regular crossword puzzle? Your description with diagonals possible seems to point to another kind or word puzzle. How did you realize 'The correct answers were also inside the boxes, which is vertical, horizontal and diagonal, upward and downward'?

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Only one type of question allows partial scoring: MCQ with multiple correct answers.
Workaround is to create a custom question slide. The score can be stored in a variable, you'll have to collect the variable. Have some blog posts about partial scoring in custom question slides, before it appeared for MCQ in Cp. Here is an example:
Widgets and Custom Questions - part 2 - Captivate blog
I once created a custom matching question slide for a client (who never paid), using the D&D interactive widget from InfoSemantics, but that is only for SWF output. And it had partial scoring.

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Captivate 7 Partial Scoring: Cannot set partial scores

Sorry. Probably missing something obvious.
I've a multiple choice quiz in Captivate 7.
What I'm after is on each question there's a correct answer, and the rest are wrong to various degrees.
So for correct answer: 10 points
for next best answer: 7 points
for next best answer: 3 points
for worst answer: 0 points.
To implement:
set quiz type to Graded
on overall quiz properties I ticked "Partial Score"
then on each answer I expected to be able to enter a Points score under "Advanced Answer Option".
However I cannot save any change to the Points score for any answer other than the first one. For all the others nomatter what I type as score gets changed to zero when I press Enter.
What am I missing?
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Answer Properties (with score that never changes):

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Hello and welcome to the forum,
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I have a workaround, using variables and advanced actions to achieve that. You can find some examples on my blog (http://lilybiri.posterous.com). But the issue is to report to a LMS. Trihan has found a solution for that, using JavaScript but I have not yet tested it out, trying to find the tiem.
Lilybiri

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Long story short, I paid a CC down to zero but it carred a balance the month prior so interest was charged before the statement cut. I panicked and quickly paid it but the small balance reported to the CRA's. I called CC and begged CSR for a mid cycle report because I needed to have a zero balance to maximize scores for mortgage app. She said she couldn't do that but would credit me the interest charged so now I have a negative balance that is going to report. Is that the same as having a zero balance report for score maximization? Or does the alogrithm only understand an actual zero?

zimm10 wrote:
Long story short, I paid a CC down to zero but it carred a balance the month prior so interest was charged before the statement cut. I panicked and quickly paid it but the small balance reported to the CRA's. I called CC and begged CSR for a mid cycle report because I needed to have a zero balance to maximize scores for mortgage app. She said she couldn't do that but would credit me the interest charged so now I have a negative balance that is going to report. Is that the same as having a zero balance report for score maximization? Or does the alogrithm only understand an actual zero? How many revolving accounts do you have? besides this one, are all but one reporting zero, and one reporting small balance?

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