Pre-Test in Captivate with rating scale questions

Question

What I want to do with Captivate:
- First an Pre-Test with 35 Questions the learner has to answer. I have to use a scale from 1 to 6.
- These questions belong to 13 groups of questions
- The Results of the questions are to be summed up in grouping variables
- The Score in the variables are responsible, which of the eLearning-Moduls should be highligthed in the TOC
- At last the TOC should be displayed
- I want to use for every of the following moduls an own project (to reduce the size of every project)
- I have to import this all in the LMS ILIAS (Scorm 1.2 and Scorm 2004)
- the learner should be able to interrupt the application at any time and resume again
I have seen the Thread "how to make a Pre Test in Captivate 4" and I work out the script-example inside the Captivate-Help  and the ebook from Rick Stone.
What is the recommendation
1. to realize the slides with the questions (they should be self-created, but how to do?)
2. to realize the code in the advanced actions
3. to realize the working-together of the project with pre-test and toc and all the following modules
Perhaps, someone has an example for me.
Best regards
Winfried

Answer 1

Hello Winfried,
Spent a couple of hours yesterday to work out a proposition. Must confess that I realized it in CP5, mostly to save some time with the Advanced Actions but it could be done in CP4 too. Beware: I did not bother a lot about the layout, graphics, just tried to find a workflow that will achieve your goal only using Captivate (no widgets, no to be written Flash-SWF's) within a reasonable amount of time. There is quite a lot of copy/paste possible, repetitive tasks that are a bit monotonous, sorry about it, and some discipline is necessary.
To start with: I made some choices to simplfy.
You showed me a screenshot with buttons to click on (little bit like the Likert Question slide) but I have preferred to have the user introduce a number from 1 to 6, which means you'll need a legend to explain on each page. If you really want the six buttons later on, you should look for a widget or a Flash SWF that returns a value = clicked button (1 to 6). To achieve this in Cp alone would be a tremendous work. You should have to take into account that a user can change his mind and click on another button... With my system (typing a number) this is no issue.
Choose to put 13 questions on each slide, one for each question group. This makes it possible to prepare one slide and copy it twice (to have 39 possible questions). There will have to be done some minor changes on the copies, but most of the work can be taken over. If you prefer to have less questions/slide that would be also possible, but then you'll have different copies (p.e. a slide with 7 and a slide with 6 questions).
Choose to have a submit button for each question that will trigger an advanced action. Mostly need this to check after completion of a slide if all questions have been answered. If you do not like those many 'Submit' buttons, in CP5 this could be easily replaced, in CP4 it will take some more working time.
First screenshot of a question slide:
In this screenshot you'll see 13 questions with 13 Text Entry Boxes. For the TEB I provided the Submit button and only the Failure Caption (red one: put all of them in the same spot). The value entered in the TEB is stored in a user variable, so I needed 13 user variables for this slide, labeled them:
v_1  v_2   .... v_13.
Same user variables will be used on the next question slide (if you have less questions/slide you'll need less user vars of this kind).
TEB is validated for the values 1 up till 6. If another number is entered the Failure Caption shows up.
The blue Text Captino (Please, answer all...) is initially hidden when entering the slide (action for On Enter slide).
Each Submit button triggers an Advanced action (labeled first AddGroup1) on success (slightly different, you'll need 13 of then, but copy can limit the work), with variables:
created one variable 'v_counter' to store the number of correct answers on the slide, will be used to check if all questions have been answered; this counter is set to the value 0 on entering the slide
created 13 group variables  v_G1  v_G2.... v_G13 to store the total score per group
labeled actions like AddGroup1:
increments counter with 1
adds value stored in v_1 to the variable v_G1
because playhead shouldn't move on the Timeline, set the system var rdcmndGotoFrame = rdInfoCurrentFrame
in the 12 copies of this action, only second action has to be changed
Next button allows the user to go to the next slide, but triggers another advanced action, that I labeled TestCompleteSlide1. You'll need a slightly different action for each Question slide, but again copy does most of the work. This action:
checks if the variable counter is different from 13
if it is different:
the blue Text Caption is showed to insist on answering all the questions (this is what had to be changed on copy, because each text caption has its proper ID, blue Text Caption on second question slide has a different ID from that on first)
rdcmndGotoFrame = rdInfoCurrentFrame - 2 to put back the playhead
if it is 13, jump to next slide
Last slide is TOC: The modules to be taken will be marked with a green circle in this screenshot and get a click box over the name and the green circle. Those not to be taken will be marked with a red triangle and not have a click box. You'll have to configure the click boxes to open the proper module. Initially all click boxes are there but invisible. Same for all green circles and red triangles. They will get visible based on checking the value of the grouping variables v_G1  v_G2.... v_G13. Just a screenshot here, if you confirm that you want to try my proposition, will explain further. This was rather easy in CP5, will not be in CP4, that is why I didn't yet work it out in CP4:
Lilybiri