Problem with quiz scoring

I'm still having an issue with this.....
Total of 30 questions spread throughout the project. The
first 15 are set up as graded questions since I want to make sure
the learner gets them right, but I don't want the scores reported
so I have these set to zero point value and do not have report
answers checked. The last 15 are also graded questions, 10 points
each, and report answers are checked. Learner must get 70% or
better to pass. When I go through the course, the results slide is
showing total 30 questions and the number correct out of 30,
although it is only calculating the score for the last 15. Somehow
I need to separate these out so that only the last 15 are reported.
I tried changing the objective ID, but it changes it for all 30
questions so Captivate is looking at these as one pool of
questions. Any thoughts?

I don't see how you can specify some questions as "graded but
not reported". If you want to know how the user did at all, the
score must be reported.
Since it sounds like the Quiz Summary page is the holdup, you
might be able to get away with splitting the project into two
separate files with two different values for "quiz passing":
- one containing the first 15 questions (each scored as you
would any other quiz question) but give it an overall quiz passing
score of zero to ensure that the user always "passes"
- a second containing the "real" test questions with a "real"
quiz passing score
That way, the Quiz Summary page will reflect only the
questions in each file and you'll still have data for each set of
questions: one set of "user score not held against them" questions
and a set of "must achieve a minimum passing score"
questions.

Similar Messages

  • Problem with quiz results.

    Hey guys, i have a problem with a quiz that i need to do, i've been using this template: http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/flashMXQuiz/index.html
    But what i need and it doesnt include is how to put a message at the end of the game which tells you that you won or lost depending if you had at least two questions right or less than two right.
    I´ve been searching and have not found any code that i could just add to my ActionScript.
    I also have been trying with variables like this:
    if(numofQuestionsAnsweredCorrectly>=2){gotoAndPlay(3)}
    else
    {gotoAndPlay(6)}
    ..and stuff like that. I'm sorry if that's completely wrong..I'm just starting to learn.
    I hope anybody can help me with this.
    Thanks

    Page 3 of the tutorial shows you the SummaryScreen. They calculate the percent correct there:
    userScore=(numOfQuestionsAnsweredCorrectly * 100) / (numOfQuestionsAnsweredIncorrectly + numOfQuestionsAnsweredCorrectly);
    It's right there you should stick your code to change to the frame you desire. Make sure you're changing the correct clips playhead.
    Do note they're using a lot of frame labels (and they're using flash player 6 with some ancient ActionScript 1.0 coding). There's a chance this quiz won't work in the future. Even ActionScript 2.0 has been depreciated and is currently unsupported by the latest version, Flash CC. It doesn't mean the browser plugin doesn't support it but eventually it may. It's long overdue..
    For the 1.0 code though, at the point I mentioned you should be able to do it with what you have (if you want to switch the main timeline to those frames via _root.
    if (numofQuestionsAnsweredCorrectly >= 2)
              _root.gotoAndPlay(3)
    else
              _root.gotoAndPlay(6)
    If you want "some other" clip to move to that frame then add the instance name after _root, e.g. _root.myClip.gotoAndPlay(3);, etc..

  • Problem with quiz

    Can anyone help me out. i am fairly new to using Aurthorware
    and have created a training demo which has 2 quizzes in it.
    The problem I am having is that when I run the package only
    one or the other quiz will work. Whichever one I go to first will
    work and the other will just show up with the summary saying 0
    questions etc.
    Any help or advice would be appreciated.
    Karen

    You can initialize the specific variables that are being
    used...
    "Mike Baker **Adobe Community Expert**"
    <[email protected]> wrote in
    message news:f0812b$8u0$[email protected]..
    >I believe you're right Erik. IIRC the quiz KO is designed
    to only have one
    > per file. I seem to recall some solutions using
    "Initialize" before the
    > beginning of the second one, but you'd lose all the
    contents of all the
    > variables in the whole file. Might be better to break
    the quizzes out of
    > the
    > file and jump to them.
    >
    > HTH,
    > Mike
    >
    > "Erik **AdobeCommunityExpert**"
    <[email protected]> wrote in
    > message news:f07vf9$6va$[email protected]..
    >> Agreed with Mark. As a WAG, I think two Quiz KOs
    have been used and one
    >> is picking up the progress of the other. I'm not
    sure if this is typical
    >> behavior or what, not having used the KOs much at
    all... I'd assume it's
    >> some KO setting?
    >> Erik
    >>
    >> kjuniper wrote:
    >> > Can anyone help me out. i am fairly new to
    using Aurthorware and have
    > created a
    >> > training demo which has 2 quizzes in it.
    >> >
    >> > The problem I am having is that when I run the
    package only one or the
    > other
    >> > quiz will work. Whichever one I go to first
    will work and the other
    >> > will
    > just
    >> > show up with the summary saying 0 questions
    etc.
    >> >
    >> > Any help or advice would be appreciated.
    >> > Karen
    >> >
    >>
    >
    >

  • Problem with quiz's report.

    Hello!
    I'm new in Adobe Captivate.
    Actually I have a problem to export the results of the quizes to a e-mail with an excel attached.
    Somebody can help me?
    Thank you.

    there is no standard portal opening page...
    when you say data is in correct what is it that you are comparing it to..
    If its with ECC then first do a listcube and check for that data in the cube.
    If data existis in the cube then check filters on query..
    If data does not exist in cube you might have to scehdule a load for that selection or see why was it missed in delta

  • Problem with Quiz created in Captivate 4 imported to Captivate 5

    Good day,
    I finally got upgraded to the eLearning Suite so I am now using Captivate 5.  I have a course that has a quiz built in Captivate 4.  It is designed that if the user scores less than 80%, they are returned to the start of the quiz. If they pass, it is supposed to jump them to the "completion" screen" I have created.  However, since I imported this into Captivate 5 and I view the quiz, on the first fail, it takes me back to the beginning of the quiz on my first try.  However, on the second try if I fail it again, it just goes to a white screen.  I have changed the "On Fail" settings to 999 and indefinite.  Neither seem to have an impact.  Not sure what else I could try.
    The thought of rebuilding the quiz makes me wish we had more than three stories in this building!
    Here is a link to my captivate 5 file. http://coventry.mzinga.com/content/ss/TestSCORMFiles//Enhanced_Authorization_Integration/w orkers_comp_just_the_quiz.cptx 
    Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Eric

    Hi Eric
    While it may make you feel like you have accomplished something by asking if Adobe has updates, what you have done is the equivalent of walking into   the waiting area of the service department of a car dealership and asking aloud if there are any updates on your vehicle. The other customers are likely the only ones that hear you ask and they just look back at you with puzzled expressions on their faces.
    The thing is, this forum is a bit unusual in that members of the actual Adobe Captivate development team visit here occasionally. But you can't count on that being the case. They do have other work to do.
    Cheers... Rick
    Helpful and Handy Links
    Begin learning Captivate 5 moments from now! $29.95
    Captivate Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form
    Adobe Certified Captivate Training
    SorcererStone Blog
    Captivate eBooks

  • Problems with quiz "continue" and "review" buttons in presenter presentation sent to connect pro

    I have a training module, built in powerpoint, modified with Presenter, and posted to Connect Pro on Adobe's server.  The post quiz has 10 questions, and when the final score page displays, it gives the user the options to "Continue" or to "Review Quiz".  The Continue button should take the user either to the next slide OR to the beginning of the presentation depending if their score was passing or not.  The Review Quiz button shows the user the quiz question slides, but to advance to subsequent slides, the user needs to use the "forward" buttons on the play bar.
    My questions:
    Even though I have set the quiz to allow up to 10 tries, there is no way to retake the quiz.  Am I missing something?
    I looked at the infite tries option, but it wouldn't let me designate where to go next.
    If the user clicks the "review quiz" button first, when they return to the score summary page, the "continue" button doesn't work.
    How can I configure so the user can "retake" the quiz?
    I appreciate any thoughts or solutions to these issues.
    Angel T

    Hi,
    Even though I have set the quiz to allow up to 10 tries, there is no way to retake the quiz.  Am I missing something?
    To retake the quiz , user have to go to the beginning of the quiz using the TOC.
    or
    The author may put a button say "Retake" on the result slide which takes the user to the beginning of the quiz.
    or
    In the quiz settings, set the options: If failing grade n attempts and go to slide which marks the beginning of the Quiz.
    I looked at the infite tries option, but it wouldn't let me designate where to go next.
    If the nymber of attemts is infinite, the default setting is goto next slide. You may change it by selecting the continue button on the slide. Go to Actions, and set the hyperlink
    If the user clicks the "review quiz" button first, when they return to the score summary page, the "continue" button doesn't work
    This should work. Could you please mail me a sample presentation which sees this issue ? Mail me at [email protected]
    How can I configure so the user can "retake" the quiz?
    The first question have the answer for this also.
    Let me know if you need any further help.
    Thanks,
    Alpi Agarwal
    Adobe Presenter Engineering Team

  • Misc. problems with Quiz

    I created a quiz for the first time with the questions pool manager and I'm getting some really strange results when I take the quiz:
    1) If I click the Forward button to go to the next question, the quiz ends, and the reporting screen is wrong - it says I answered the question wrong, but I answered it correctly. Then, the Continue button does not work, and when I click Review, I go back to the question and the screen says I did not complete the question - but I did. Is clicking Forward the wrong thing to do in a quiz? If so, I need to warn the user not to do that (which seems like a strange thing to have to do).
    2) If I click Submit for the first question instead of Forward, the quiz ends. I can't seem to go on to the second question.
    3) When I restart the quiz, I get a screen full of randomly placed rollover captions from previous slides - weird! No matter how many times I restart or re-publish, that garbage is still on the screen.
    4) When I click Review, I can go back to the first question, but there is no way to exit the quiz (buttons don't help) except for clicking Forward (which was a bad thing to click previously!)
    I must admit, my first experience with the Question Pool was fine, but actually taking a quiz I created was a totally crazy experience. I must be doing something wrong here - can't believe that Captivate would be that unfriendly to quiz users ...
    Ideas?

    A little progress ...
    The quiz works OK in Preview now, but NOT when I publish it.
    The published version is missing all the questions - they all show up as blank, whereas in Preview they show up fine. The Summary screen traps me - the Continue and Forward buttons don't work (I assume they should work automatically) and Review just sends me back to the blank screens to click through again.
    I have re-published many times, deleted target files, etc. - no luck - but Preview is working.
    Is my installation hosed, or is there a simpler explanation for why Publish doesn't match Preview??
    Also, halfway thru the quiz in Preview, the "Correct/Incorrect" function suddenly stops advancing me to the next slide and I have to click Forward to proceed ... strange ...

  • Few problems with Quiz Results Analyzer Error 16824 and No Companies found in the current user accou

    First I have QRA version 1.0 but when I try to upgrade to 1.5 via the in app Check for updates I get this error: There was an error downloading the update. Error# 16824.
    I've tried uninstalling AIR, QRA, eLearning Suite, and reinstalling, but nothing works.
    Secondly, when trying to view the results on a remote server (php 5, *nix) I am unable to do so. If I do it on localhost I can view the results fine however. If I download the CaptivateResults folder from my site I can open and view it fine as well. The folder structure is being created on the internal server and it matches the folder structure when I use localhost.
    The error I'm getting when trying to view it remotely is: No Companies found in the current user account.
    For my quiz I have the internalServerReporting.php file referrenced in the server reporting section. and the QRA I am using internalserverread.php. No matter what I try the error is still persistant when attempting to view from my server.
    Any and all help is appreciated.

    First I have QRA version 1.0 but when I try to upgrade to 1.5 via the in app Check for updates I get this error: There was an error downloading the update. Error# 16824.
    I've tried uninstalling AIR, QRA, eLearning Suite, and reinstalling, but nothing works.
    Secondly, when trying to view the results on a remote server (php 5, *nix) I am unable to do so. If I do it on localhost I can view the results fine however. If I download the CaptivateResults folder from my site I can open and view it fine as well. The folder structure is being created on the internal server and it matches the folder structure when I use localhost.
    The error I'm getting when trying to view it remotely is: No Companies found in the current user account.
    For my quiz I have the internalServerReporting.php file referrenced in the server reporting section. and the QRA I am using internalserverread.php. No matter what I try the error is still persistant when attempting to view from my server.
    Any and all help is appreciated.

  • Adobe Captivate 5 - Problem with scoring with Quiz exported to PDF

    Hello,
    I have created several review quizzes that have been exported to pdf and uploaded to the internet. They are elementary school quizzes that are listed on a canned school web hosting site that only allows uploads in common formates such as Microsoft Word and pdf.
    I tested these pdf quizzes with no problems and from my  computers they still work fine; however some people are having problems with the scoring element. Some - not all questions are not tabulated correctly in the end review section. I have been told that the questions were answered correctly but the end review showed some questions as wrong or not answered. The quizzes are reveiw only and no reporting or LMS is used.
    Has anyone else seen this? I had a feeling that perhaps the adobe reader was at fault, but so far everyone is using reader version 9.
    One of the quizzes can be found here.. http://www.germantownschools.org/faculty/jwoger/4th_math_topic_1_quiz[1].pdf
    Tim

    Hi,
    I have since my initial post been told that certain elements of the quiz slides are also not working. Correct answers have a sound clip that plays when the "correct" option is selected.  This is not working for some users. Like I said I have no problem with the pdf quiz from any  of the computers I use and don't know why it doesn't work for others.
    tim

  • Quiz scoring incorrectly for non sequential questions

    Hi there!
    We are having some problems with a quiz scoring incorrectly.  We have a total of 17 quiz questions spread throughout a project.  There are 5 sequential questions at the end of the project.  When we preview the project, regardless of how you answer all 17 questions, only the 5 at the end are scoring. The review area indicates that the system knows there are 17 questions (i.e. 17 total question, 5 questions answered correctly) so it's recognizing them, just not scoring them correctly.  We're using version 5.0.1.624.  Any ideas?
    Thanks!

    Hello and welcome to the forum,
    First of all, please update your version, the latest version is 5.0.2.630  It is possible by the Help, Updates option.
    Could you check the Advanced interaction view/panel (F9)? It gives you an overview of all the scored objects, inc. question slides. Are all the question scores added to the Total score?
    Lilybiri

  • The problems with Logic (as I see them)

    Hello Everyone,
    Please keep in mind that I am writing this with the intention of expressing my frustrations, and what I feel would make Logic a better program. I realize not everyone will agree with the importance of what I say, but I am a firm believer of HAVING THE OPTIONS. Let the users choose what works for them and how they can best accomplish the tasks that they need to with their individual workflow.
    That being said, here is my list of Logic's faults and why I often call Logic "Illogic".
    General:
    * Logic should have a feature to automatically save your song every X number of minutes. Final Cut Pro does this, why doesn't Logic? It should prompt you "Logic can automatically save your project if you save it" (assuming the current file is 'autoload') to remind users that they should create a project name and save their work.
    * There should be a preference option for all windows to open as 'float'. Once upon a time holding option while double clicking parts would open them as a float (though having to hold down option every time in my opinion is an inconvenience, because I personally ALWAYS want my windows open as a float), however.. now in 7.2 that does not seem to work anymore. So, theoretically after you set your prefence to 'always float', then the when you hold option or control and click on a particular window, it will bring that window to the foreground...
    * The loop region at the top of the screen is larger than the time-line ruler tab. This is the #1 annoying thing about logic. so many times, I click on an area of the ruler tab to start playing at a specific section.. and somehow I ACCIDENTALLY click on the loop area... If I could ask for ANYTHING it would be that there is an option to disable LOOPING turning on and off from clicking up there. My 2nd request would be that the ruler tab be re-sizeable so that it can be larger than the loop area. This is especially the case for the matrix window where it default opens up to a sizing where the actual time line is so tiny, and the loop region is HUGE.... Every time I open a matrix window I have to resize this and again the loop area is 2x as big as the timeline area, so I end up wasting screen space just to avoid the annoying loop feature being trued on. My suggestion is, require that the loop button on the transport be the only way to turn on the loop feature (other than key commands), and only when it's turned on can loop points to be set. Why is the loop area so big anyway?!?!
    * Logic should offer a TALK BACK MIC button which will utilize the built-in apple microphone or iSight microphone and allow that to be sent to the audio interface. This would be an extremely useful feature for studio recording setups.
    * Starting logic takes approximately 5 minutes for me. It says "scanning exs24 instruments" for the majority of the time, and I admit my sample library is huge. however, my sample library has not changed in over a year. Why does logic have to continuously scan it??? Can it not make a reference of how many files, compare and if its larger-- then scan???
    Song Loading:
    * When audio files are not found during loading a song, it asks you the first time what you want to do "search", "manual", and "skip"... if you click "skip", and then it finds another missing file, it no longer presents you with the "SKIP" option.. but forces you to either search or skip all.. Let's say you have a project that used 5 audio files that are all missing because you had them on a different hard drive, but have copied the data somewhere else. The first two files it asks for you don't need.. but you know where the 3rd file is.. So your plan is to skip the first two files and then click manually for the 3rd.. but oh.. YOU CAN'T DO THAT! You have to find your first 2 files if you want to even have the option to locate your 3rd file... Unless you are planning to locate the files within the audio window-- but still, Logic should not be so unfriendly.
    Further, If you choose "manual", and what you're looking for isn't where you thought it was-- You realize you actually want to search for it.. So you click cancel and guess what.. It assumes you want to skip it, and so you either have to reload your project again, or deal with this in the audio window. Bottom line is this window should always have "Search", "Manual", "Skip", and "Skip All".
    * When you open another project, Logic DUMPS all of the audio instrument data in memory. This is one of the worst things about logic. If you are working between multiple files-- such as when scoring a film, and you are using different files for different cues, then this becomes a complete nightmare and a waste of your time. Logic should be assessing "What instruments are in common between these two projects"... And utilizing all audio instruments to the best of the machine's memory capacity. There is no reason for Logic to behave like this.. I've had to revert back to previous versions of the same song because some data was different, and I am just trying to visually compare various settings one from the other.. Just clicking from one project's window to the other requires me to have to wait 3-4 minutes while Logic loads all these audio instruments (WHICH ARE IDENTICAL IN BOTH PROJECTS BY THE WAY!!!).. This is just incredibly dumb, and creatively stifling.
    * BUG * -- Mind you, if you have two projects open, and you close one.. Logic begins loading all the audio instruments of the remaining project.. If you close that project as it's loading audio instruments, Logic will crash.
    Matrix Stuff:
    * BUG * If you have a part with lots of notes, and you begin to make a selection and scroll horizontally through all the content until then entire part is covered in the selection... After you release the mouse button and make this selection, quite often many random notes are unselected. This can be demonstrated by watching the following quicktime move:
    http://www.collinatorstudios.com/video/logicbug.mov
    * When you select a single note in the matrix window, it sounds.. This is a GREAT feature... However, when you make a selection of multiple of notes, they all sound at the same time.. This is just plain dumb. It once blew up my speakers... There is NO reason why a multiple selection would need to sound.. It's just dumb.. bad for your speakers, bad for your ears. The rule should be, if selection box = yes, then sound = no... else, sound = yes.
    * When viewing the matrix window while recording, all note events disappear until after recording stops. This is highly annoying (and illogical) as it causes confusion if you are relying on watching the note events in that part to know where you are supposed to come in.
    * The grid cannot be set to divisions other than 2 or 3. Musicians use 5 and 7!!! And also, can logic please offer an option to display the grid as NOTE symbols... It is much more musician friendly to see a 16th note with a 3 over it than "24". 24 means nothing to me as a musician.
    * Quantizing should allow custom input for tuplets.. So that users can quantize odd figures such as 13:4 for example.
    * If you move the song locator to a specific time location in the arrange window, and then double click a part to open it in the matrix window, the window is not opened to the locator's position. Thus causing annoyance and confusion as far as what the user is even looking at.
    * During horizontal scrolling of the window, the locator temporarily disappears, making it difficult to find where the locator is-- which usually is a marker for us to know what we are trying to find-- ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU OPEN A WINDOW AND IT'S NOT EVEN DISPLAYING THE SONG LOCATOR'S POSITION!!!
    * If you have two parts on the same arrange track, adjacent to each other and you enter the matrix window of the first part.. (assuming the link/chain icon is lit) When you scroll to the end of the note data, logic automatically takes you to the next part... The problem with this as it is, is that it does not take you to the FIRST note event of the text part, but rather continues to align the song locater with where ever it previously was (so you end up viewing somewhere further down in the next part).. To clarify, say you have a part what begins at MM-7 and ends at MM-14, the 2nd part begins at MM-15 and ends at MM-22.. If you begin scrolling the song locator past measure 15, then suddenly you see measure 22. When you really should be seeing measure 15. This is confusing and weird.
    * Every time you enter the matrix window of a part, the chain/link button is on. For me, this is incredibly annoying. There should be a way to set this so that the button's default is OFF...
    * When you move the mouse around the matrix window, whatever pitch corresponds to the vertical location of the mouse--- that particular key of the piano keyboard on the left side of the window should highlight so you could clearly see what note you are hovering over.. Logic tries to help with this by offering things like contrast options for C D E, but this clearly would be much more helpful.
    * With the velocity tool you can (MOST OFTEN ON ACCIDENT) double click on empty space in the window and cause all note events in all parts to appear on the screen-- Yet once you do this, you can't double click on a particular part's note to only display that part again. You have to switch to the arrow tool to do this. This is inconsistent and ILLOGICAL...
    ON A SIDE NOTE: PLEASE ENABLE A FUNCTION TO DISABLE THIS "ALL NOTES OF ALL PARTS APPEAR" when double clicking on empty space feature! I want NOTHING to happen when I double click within the matrix window... Make it a button within the window or just an option in the drop down menu only. * BY THE WAY * When you DO double click the background of the matrix window and multiple parts appear.. If you move notes of one part to match it up with other, it is incredibly slow. there is a 1-2 second pause each time you move a note move.. My g5 fan goes on each time I do this.. I'm sorry, there shouldn't be anything too CPU intensive to accomplish this simple task!!! I am only viewing 2 parts at the same time and it's slowing down my cpu...
    * Occasionally when I adjust note lengths, I accidentally double click on an actual note.. This opens the event list editor, and there is an intermittent bug where this note sounds-- and for some reason when the event list opens, the note sounds on top of itself a million times, so the result is a super loud flanged note which again, almost blows up my speakers and hurts my ears... PERSONALLY, I would like an option that DISABLES the note event list from opening by double clicking. Preferences currently has "double clicking a midi region opens: <selectable>"--- why not also have "double clicking a NOTE in matrix window does: <selectable>"-- and please allow "DO NOTHING" to be one of the options.
    * Why does the finger tool only change the end position of the note event??? Should this not be replaced with the bracket tool which appears automatically when using the arrow tool on closely zoomed in notes? This finger tool seems like an outdated old logic feature which has been replaced and improved upon. What would be nice is to have this bracket tool where we can be assured we are altering note start and end positions without moving things.
    * In the hyper-draw >> note velocity section--- This is highly annoying to work with... It's far from user friendly. first of all, to move a note's velocity position, you have to click on the "ball".. if you click on the line, it does nothing.. Because the ball is so small to begin with, quite often the user is going to miss the ball and somehow begin to "START LINE"-- Which is weird because it's activated by holding the mouse button down briefly. There really should be a "line tool" for this, because "START LINE" is too easily accidentally activated-- this is frustrating for the user. Most important though, these 'velocity markings' should be adjustable by clicking on the line as well-- not just the ball.. there should be a 2-3% area around each ball/line which logic will recognize as part of the ball/line so that it can easily be moved. I also feel that there should be some specific features for this section, such as a way to select multiple note velocities and apply a random pattern to them, or apply a logarithmic curve to the line tool. Yes, you can accomplish this stuff somewhat with the transform tool-- but this way would be more user friendly, and allow a lot more creative flow.
    Event list/Tempo list:
    * When one event is selected, by moving down X number, holding shift+clicking SHOULD select all events between those two points. However, the shift key for some reason acts as the OPTION key does in the finder-- (meaning it will only add one additional selection at a time).. This is highly inconsistent with the actual behavior of a Mac... Open a finder window and hold shift and click on items that are not vertically next to each other and a group is selected... Now do it in logic, and it causes GREAT frustration and annoyance. What happens if you have a million note events that you want to erase? You have to go page by page and click with shift on each one?? Or drag a selection and wait for logic to scroll you to where you want to go?????????? No thanks.
    Arrange stuff:
    * "REGIONAL CONTENT" (meaning the visual representation of note events) does not accurately depict the event data as note lengths cannot be visually identified. Everything shows up as a generic quarter note... My #1 suggestion is that regional content should be customizable so that you can view it in a miniature matrix data style. The biggest problem for me is that I cannot see where my notes end-- I can only see where they start, this makes it very difficult to identify what I am looking at.
    * Track automation data should only be inputable by the pencil tool. I cannot mention how many times automation data has accidentally altered when using the arrow tool. The pencil tool should allow you to raise and lower the lines reflecting automation data... What is the point using the pencil tool for automation if it's only function is to create "points" yet you can also create points with the arrow tool..??? Pencil tool should act as the arrow tool does in the sense that it raises or lowers automation data.
    * Recording preferences do not offer the option to automatically merge new part with existing part when a region is NOT selected. How annoying is it to have to select a part every time you want to record something just so it will be included in that original part!
    * Ruler at the top of the screen should also give an option for tuplets. 5, 7, etc.
    * When in record mode, if you click on the ruler to another time position, all audio instruments cut out and it takes approximately 3-4 seconds before tracks begin playing audio. This becomes very annoying if you are trying to do a pick up and want to just start 1 measure before hand.
    * There should be a way to EASILY (without having to cable two tracks together in the environment) temporarily link multiple tracks together so that automation data will be duplicated. So theoretically you can link 3-4 tracks together, and by adding automation data to one, you are adding it to all 4.
    * If a part is soloed, and you hit record. The part stops being soloed and you can no longer hear it. This makes it impossible to record a pick up on a soloed track unless it's locked, but it shouldn't need to be locked.
    * When you are zoomed in tightly, and you are trying to align notes within two parts on different tracks (meaning using the PSEUDO NOTATION DATA that appears in the part to align), there needs to be a VERTICAL line that snaps to the note closest to the mouse cursor. When trying to do this in parts that are a far vertical distance apart, it becomes VERY difficult to eye this alignment. Logic does this with automation data.. but for some reason they left it out for actual part alignment...
    * There should be a way to force the downbeat of a measure to occur at any given moment... What I mean by this, is composing for film is an absolute PAIN in Logic. Scenes, last for odd amounts of time, and Logic's reference manual claims that you can solve this by using various tempo tricks, however it is ineffective for the most part. What Logic needs is the ability where you can click on a drop down menu item within the arrange window and FORCE that where ever the song locator is, the rest of the measure is eliminated and a new measure downbeat occurs right there. This will allow you to always have new scenes on the downbeat of a measure without having to mess with your tempo and meter.
    Hyper Edit Window:
    * I can't even begin to comment on this... The hyper edit window is one of the worst things I have ever seen in a music/audio program. It is a horrible interface, you can't get it to do anything correctly without messing everything up. This thing needs a complete overhaul... I mean, just try to create a simple crescendo with note velocity and it will take you all night.. Try to add pitch bend data, and it adds note velocity data as well.. It's a total nightmare, and I would love to hear someone's practical application of this window.
    Score Window:
    * The method that the song position locator moves along with the notation is very strange. It is not at all how a person's eyes function when reading music. A much more logical approach to this would be for a transparent colored block of some type to highlight an entire measure, and each note head will glow as it sounds. The current way is so strange, it speeds up and slows down-- makes absolutely no sense, and it is more disruptive than anything.
    * When the Hyper Draw > note velocity area is exposed, if you use the velocity tool to increase/decrease a particular note's volume, the data in the hyper draw window does not update in real-time as you use the velocity tool. This behavior is inconsistent with the matrix > hyper draw's note velocity section-- where as in that area, the velocity ball/lines do update in realtime.
    EXS24:
    * when you are in many levels of subdirectories and you are auditioning instruments, it becomes very time consuming and annoying to have to continually trace through all the subdirectory paths. There should be a feature directly under the load instrument window that takes you to the subdirectory of the current instrument.
    * Seems when SONG SETTING > MIDI > "chase" is turned on... When starting sequences using audio instruments, (I am using a harp sample within the exs24), there is a latency hiccup upon starting, which is very disruptive when trying to listen to a short isolated moment in a composition. And I do want to chase note events in general-- but this present situation makes it difficult for me to work. I would suggest that you can specify tracks to exclude chasing.. Or fix the latency hiccup issue.
    Thank you.
    -Patrick
    http://collinatorstudios.com

    this is excellent patrick. can you number your points so that the thread can be discussed?
    1. yes
    2. ok
    3. great idea
    4. even better idea. you could set something up with aggreagate device i suppose but it would be better to have the feature to hand.
    5. you need to look into your project manager prefs. scan the paths and the links to the audio files will be saved meaning they will load up in a fraction of the time.
    6. yes this is nuts. you can skip all and sort it out with PM but then you shouldn't have to.
    7. this exists already. perhaps it ought to be a default but you need to set your esx prefs to 'keep common samples in memeory when switching songs'. then it will do just as you wish it to. you can also use the au lab in the devlopers kit which will allow you to load in au units etc seperately from logic, which logic can then access. this is a good way of getting around the 4 GB memory limit with logic too.
    8. ok, don't know about this bug.
    9. yep happens here too.
    10. doesn't worry me this one. you can turn off midi out.
    11. yes this is silly.
    12. well, i think this is something we can get used to. i am a musician and i am used to seeing '24'.
    13. you can already set up groove templates to allow for quantizing irrational tuplets. i do it all the time. i would like to see step input for irrational tuplets though.
    14. yes this is silly. the button for the KC 'content catch' is getting very worn out.
    15. ok.
    16. not sure i understand this one.
    17. yes this drives me nuts too. i have to lock screensets to get this to stay off.
    18. you can use KCs for 'go into/out of sequence' - but yeah.
    19. ok
    20. there are a couple of features that use old technology that cause hangs and poor performance. score is a good example of that. maybe the matrix is too. the score is being updated we assume with newer technology maybe the matrix will too.
    21. there are probably better ways of adjusting velocity than using matrix or hperdraw velocity. have you tried holding control-option and click dragging a note in score?
    22. as i pointed out in 20, this is an old feature. you could change things to be consistent with modern macs and annoy long term users such as myself, or leave them and let them be inconsistent to confuse newbies. i think depending on what it is we oldies could upgrade our work habits.
    23. this one doesn't worry me so much.
    24. good point (no pun intended).
    25. well, i find the opposite - that merging new parts to objects i have accidentally selected to be annoying. perhaps more detailed prefs?
    26. yep.
    27. this will be down to your audio settings. you can improve this lag but it will be dependant on the capabilities of your system.
    28. i don't know why this feature doesn't work in logic. it is supposed to have ti already and i just don't understand why it doesn't. maybe it will be fixed in the next upgrade.
    29. agreed.
    30. ok - i have other work flows for this but it would be nice.
    31. i don't agree that logic is a pain to score with to film, i do it nearly everyday. but you are discribing an interesting feature which might be worth discussing more. i think you might find yourself getting alarming and unmiscal results doing this that will end up having to be sorted out the conventional way. but its a good idea.
    32. oh yes.
    33. yeah - this could be improved.
    34. ok, well i wouldn't go about it this way, but yeah there is generally sticky spots with regards to updating of information al around logic.
    25. very very good idea.
    26. there are lots of problems with the chase function. very annoying. i certainly agree with this.
    in general, some of these could well be done as their own threads. some of the missing functionality may exist. if you can confirm a bug then you are on stronger ground when you submit feedback. but this list is full of fantastic ideas.

  • Problem with unstable and slow SWFs

    Good evening,
    Some of my users are reporting problems with the SWF output of my intensive Captive file which includes significant software simulation. I knew that these files were going to be resource intensive due to the nature of the project, but I felt comfortable with system requirements of at least 2 gb RAM and a mid-range processor.
    Unfortunately, some of my users who meet this criteria are reporting problems including text animations not playing in full and slow slide transitions. I cannot replicate this problem on any of my machines.
    I have been playing around trying to compress images as much as possible and otherwise reduce file size. What else can be done? What are the top five things I can do to remedy this problem?
    My presentation is about 50 slides and the SWF output is about 4.5 mb.
    Thanks

    I've seen this type of thing many times, especially in corporate environments.
    My top suggestions:
    If you've taken all reasonable steps to make your project as web-friendly as possible by this time, don't make any more changes to your project until you've exhausted the possibilities below.  It is most likely NOT your project that is at fault.
    Find out more details from the users that are complaining.  If at all possible, actually go and sit with them to watch the behaviour they're talking about.  Don't believe everything you hear.
    Check that users are on the correct version of Flash Player. For example, Flash Player 10 can play significantly better than Flash 9.
    Ask the user to check defragmentation on their PC.  Most users DON'T know how to do this and never defragment. As a result, I have seen PCs in corporate IT environments that had not been defragmented in years.  Their hard drive showed up mostly red when the fragmentation analysis was done.  This lack of PC housekeeping can contribute to many issues, especially with Flash or multimedia playback.  Ask the user to defragment 2 or 3 times to be on the safe side.
    Watch the CPU on Task Manager while the PC is playing the Captivate presentation.  The performance monitor should tell you if the CPU is struggling and unable to decode the content fast enough.
    Try to have another user log onto the same machine using a different profile and see if they experience the same issues.  This can tell you whether the issue is due to a corrupted user profile.  Conversely, have the same user log onto a different machine, creating a new profile for themselves on that PC to see if they experience the same issue.  If it seems to be their profile at fault, they may need to get some IT dude to blow away their profile and set it up afresh.
    Check whether or not the issue could be due to server latency.  This is especially the case where LMSs are involved.  Users will often experience latency issues such as slow transitions from one quiz slide to the next because the course module has to wait for the LMS to respond before it can move forward.  If this is occurring for a significant number of users, you can try using the optional SCORM template that only sends tracking data at the end of the module instead of all the way through.
    In my experience, if 95% of your user base is playing the content without issue, you don't need to change anything.  Chances are that whatever is going wrong for the few that are complaining about poor playback wouldn't necessarily improve no matter what you did to your project.  In the vast majority of cases, you need to isolate what exactly is causing the issue for these users and correct it ON THEIR END.
    Rod Ward
    www.infosemantics.com.au
    UPDATE: I just realised that a lot of this information would probably help others, so I created a blog post documenting these steps: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/debug_slow_playback

  • Problems with getting captivate 5.5 to report completion with Internet Explorer?

    Hi guys. I've been trying to get my head around this issue for quite a while now. We´ve created a pretty standard course for one of our clients, around 40 slides with some video and a quiz. We just want to check Complete/Incomplete measuring slide view completion. All reporting is as expected using browsers like Firefox or Chrome . But using Internet Explorer 8 or 9, the course reports Incomplete even with all slides visited. This occurs in both of the LMS-systems that I have access to. Has anyone else had similar problems with CP 5.5 and Internet Explorer, or does anyone have any suggestions on possible solutions?
    Kind regards
    /Jonas

    I'm wondering if your issue is perhaps due to IE going into Quirks Mode because of the way the standard Captivate SCORM HTM templates are coded.
    One thing IE does not like is having any comments outside the HTML tags at the top of a page.  This is something that the Adobe Captivate templates have by default.
    Take one of your published test mdoules, open up the HTM file in a text editor and remove this text at the top of the page:
    <!-- Copyright [2008] Adobe Systems Incorporated.  All rights reserved -->
    <!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
    Then try running this again to see if you get better results in your LMS.
    If that doesn't work, try using the Pipwerks modified templates for Adobe Captivate.  They are much better quality and have removed a lot of bugs that foul up some LMSs.
    There's a series of articles on his blog about the changes: http://pipwerks.com/2012/01/11/cleaning-up-adobe-captivates-scorm-publishing-template-part -1-introduction/
    You can find the links to download and install his version of the templates on this page: http://pipwerks.com/2012/01/25/cleaning-up-adobe-captivate%e2%80%99s-scorm-publishing-temp late-part-7-giving-the-revisions-a-home/
    You need to back up your old templates before changing over to Phil's new versions (there are separate templates for SCORM 1.2 and 2004) but I recommend you at least give them a try.

  • Problem with Greek Fonts

    We are a team of Mathematicians from Greece and we are
    beginners of Authorware 7. Our goal is to develop math Quizzes for
    high school students.
    When I select the <Quiz> for the startup menu and the
    Wizard starts, I cannot type Greek fonts (the question or the
    answers for example) only English unfortunately.
    Have anyone any idea what kind of settings I have to do in
    order to accept Greek fonts in the Wizard.
    This problem it’s a big obstacle in our project because
    the questions and the answers must be in Greek.
    I appreciate any helpful advice for this problem.

    "BOSKOS" <[email protected]> wrote in
    message
    news:f51j8q$ge$[email protected]..
    > IF we make my project .exe i have a problem with greek
    fonts in
    > Macromedia Director MX 2004 .Please help me ..
    > thanks.
    hi,
    did you import them into the cast?
    What exactly is the problem?
    Richard

  • Intermittant problems with Flash Player 7 and 8

    Good morning,
    While "stress testing" a recent Captivate 2 generated quiz
    lesson, one of our testers noticed some odd behavior. (Granted,
    most students will not do the following actions, but I thought I'd
    mention it anyway.)
    First let me add that we use a LMS and that this behavior
    might have something to do with the LMS, but I suspect the problem
    might be in how Flash Player 7 and 8 handle viewing a SWF file.
    The tester would start the quiz, answer a few questions, then
    close the session (before the conclusion of the quiz). The tester
    (student) would then (through the LMS) go to the quiz/lesson link
    and begin again. The Quiz behaviors are that the student can't go
    back to any question they have already answered. In theory the
    student would go back to the next unanswered question and continue
    with the quiz.
    The first time this is done, everything appears to work well.
    However, if the same student behavior is done again, when the
    quiz/lesson is re-launched the student is taken to the very first
    slide, not the one where they left off. If they go to the first
    question slide they will find that it appears to be unanswered. The
    student then tries to answer it and nothing happens, nore can the
    student move to the next question. They are "stalled" and can go no
    further. Any subsequent attempt to re-enter the quiz produces the
    same effect. Additionally, if this is done without restarting the
    computer the browser (Internet Explorer) will hang and they'll need
    to stop the process.
    I found that in Captivate 2 you have 3 options for building a
    solotion when you publish a project. You can publish using Flash
    Player 6, 7 or 8. Only by selecting Flash Player 6 does this
    behavior stop. The Flash Player 6 selection seems to work well.
    Anyone else had problems with FlashPlayer 7 and 8?

    Flash Player 11 sends the getServerVersion request in order to determine the capabilities of the Flash Access license server. If you are running a 2.0 server, it should return an HTTP 404 error, since it does not support this endpoint. The client understands that to mean it is communicating with a Flash Access 2.0 server, and will send the license request accordingly. In other words, the fact that your 2.0 server does not support getServerVersion should not cause the license acquisition to fail.
    Is your server responding to the getServerVersion request with a 404? After the getServerVersion request arrives at your server, you should see another request asking for a license. In your server logs, do you see any errors in the license request processing?

Maybe you are looking for