Question pools

We have just started testing Captivate and one of the questions I've gotten is on question pool. If we have a project/SCO that when it is packaged with one group of SCOs requires the student to take a quiz and pass at a certain level this same project/SCO also gets packaged with another group of SCOs to make another course where the student just has to view the content. Is it best to have a separate section that has the questions or to imbed the questions in the SCO.
Rereading this it sounds convuluted but I'm hoping someone will understand what I mean.
Susan

Welcome to our community, Michelle
Question Pools are designed to be used with Random Question
Slides. Basically it works like this.
Define a pool.
Add questions to the pool. In your case, you have defined 4
questions.
Now in your project, you click Quiz > Random Question
Slide to insert a Random Question.
Point the slide at the pool.
Repeat by inserting a second Random Question Slide.
Now you should have a project that presents two different
questions from the pool.
Cheers... Rick

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How can I get Captivate to score across multiple question pools?

I have set up a Captivate assessment as follows:
A core set of 50 questions will be presented to all learners
Depending on where the learner is, he will receive an additional 10 questions from one of 5 location-specific pools
Learners will see a total of 60 questions
I have my question pools set up and branching correctly, and am using the Branch Aware option to assist with this and the progress indicator. Before the first question I have the learner click one of several buttons (not quiz elements) to set a location variable, and after presenting the core questions I use this variable to determine which random question slide to jump to next (with set of slides pointing to a different question pool). After asking the 10 random questions from that pool the learner is then redirected to the review slide so only one set of location-specific slides is encoutnered on each attempt.
All of that seems to be working as designed but the scoring is not behaving as I had expected; despite the fact that all questions are asked before the review slide is presented (i.e. all questions are within the quiz scope in both the edit-time and run-time sense) the review slide only reports results from the first question pool. For example, in a test file I reduced the question slides for the first pool to only display 2 questions, for a total of 12 presented, but my results show "0 of 2 correct" or "2 of 2 correct." The pass/fail results of the module match the review slide, so this is not a simple display issue; if I miss either of the two questions from the first pool I fail regardless of what happens in the second pool.
What am I missing? Surely there wouldn't be the option of using multiple question pools if only one could be graded ...
I am working on Captivate 6.0.1 64-bit for Windows. FWIW the file was originally created in Captivate 5 and has since been upconverted, but the additional question pools weren't introduced until after the conversion processes so I wouldn't expect this to be related to residual crud left over from that process.

Thanks for the quick response ...
I had already tried deleting the review slide itself, though Captivate wouldn't let me - it just hid it. I tried again using the method you recommended but the slide remained in the filmstrip, so I tried deleting again, then re-added it from the Quiz Settings page ... no joy, same behavior as before.
I checked the Advanced Interaction page and confirmed that all of the scored questions were configuredthe same way as the non-scored questions, with the only difference being the pool that they were drawing from.
Other thoughts? I am by no means a Captivate expert but this one really feels like it shouldn't be this hard, and I'm more than a little afraid that it's the file itself that's jacked up ...

How to make a question pool with MANY questions?

I would like to make a question pool
with several thousand questions, which I currently have in an
Excel file. Is there a way around having manually to enter all
questions in a Captivate question pool?
Thanks.

I would use the XML function from Captivate 4.
- Make yourself a test quiz with two slides, one being a multiple choice.
- Export it to XML
- Open the XML File in Excel
Good point to start with is ns1:g and ns1:Source26.
Most likely you can get all your question into captivate that way.
Mr_TD

Resolution of question pools

I have created a pool of question from which I want to add
random questions to a few different presentations but when I import
the question pool and then add a random slide to the project the
question is cut off by the size of the project. I think I was in a
project that was 1024x768 when I created the questions but when I
add the questions to a project that is 640x480 the question get cut
off. I just thought the text would wrap and the answers would just
move down but this is not happening.
If anyone has any suggestions how I can get round this
without having to enter in all the questions again

Welcome to our community, IDWT
Have you tried opening just one of the questions for editing
in the smaller project?
Sometimes that is all that is needed with some applications.
You may find that the elements pop into the viewable area if you do
that.
Then again, it may make no difference whatsoever. Nothing
should be lost by trying to see.
Cheers... Rick

Cp4 - question pool - time limit not working

I am putting together a bunch of quiz modules & I am having so many problems with this, it's driving me crazy!
I am using question pools & I have a bunch of questions in my pool. I am trying to edit the questions to place a time limit on each one. When I edit the question, I choose the Options tab & select Show time out message. I then choose the Reporting tab & enter a time limit of two minutes. Yes, the Time limit selection box is checked.
Now, when I look at my question slide - there is no time out message & when I publish my module... the question has no time limit!
The crazy thing is that I have been putting these modules together all day & this is the first one that is acting this way! I have successfully added time limits to other quiz modules.
One thing I tried.. was to save the problem captivate file & then re-open... but when I look at each question's properties - they all have the time limit defined. So it is saving the info, it's just not implementing it.
I'm running into all kinds of crazy problems with my question pools... (among other things, the question pools manager won't save any of my edits to the questions!)
any advice?
thx in advance...

Yes, I have a few threads going... I'm having a lot of problems!
The other thread that Rod is helping me with is related to a different issue.... although it's still quiz-related.
Here is a quick outline of what I'm doing here. I have a small file that I'm using as a template. It has 44 slides in it - 2 intro slides, 40 random quiz slides, and 2 ending slides. I have a question pool defined that has one question slide in it - I'm just using this a placeholder for now.
So, what I'm doing is using the template file as a starting point. I then copy/paste question slides from other captivate files into my question pool. I am creating a master quiz based on previous quizzes. So there are anywhere from 9-12 captivate files that I'm taking questions from and copying into my new question pool-based quiz file. This is where things are going wacky. The problems I'm running into are really unpredictable.
I'm thinking maybe the files that I'm taking the questions FROM might be corrupted in some way? Although, in the original files, the questions do NOT have a time limit. This is something new I am adding after I bring them into my question pool.
I will do what you suggest... if you have any other ideas, I would surely welcome those as well!!
Thanks Lilybiri...

Quiz slide not advance when using question pools and advance answer options?

Hi,
I am using CP 5.5. I created a small test where I have just 2 question in a question pool. The questions are using the advanced answer options to show some specific feedback. When I insert the questions in to the project using a random question slide, after the user answers where you should be able to press Y or click to move on, I click, but nothing happens. You can't get off the quiz slide. The quiz slides work fine when they are inserted in the project as reqular quiz slides, but not when they are being pulled from a question pool.
Is this a known bug? Is there a workaround? Anyone else run in to this?
Thanks!
Lori

I was having the same problem on the last Random Question slide (total 10 RQ slides), and was able to fix it by following the next steps:
Make sure Quiz: Pass or Fail actions are set to Continue for both Passing and Failing actions in the quiz preferences.
Delete the RQ slide not advancing, then duplicate one of the RQ slides working, and assign your question pool to the new slide if different from the original duplicate. This step will make sure you are using a good working RQ slide.
For some reason, my last RQ slide was corrupted and wasn't advancing to the Score slide at the end of the quiz.
I can finally finish this project.
Good luck.

Captivate 4 Question Pool Slides Show Ghosts

Random question slides display captions from previous slides
when I publish to Flash 8-10. Publishing to Flash 7 or using the
same questions (but not as random questions) cures the problem.
The captions appear on all but one random question slide (8
of 10 doesn't display the problem). The captions are from four
upstream slides each of which has different rollover captions. The
problematic question slides show all the rollover captions,
superimposed over the question.
The PC showing the problem is running Win XP SP3, Flash WIN
10,0,22,87. Other PC's at the same site do have the problem when
running the same published show.
I've tried recreating the question pool from the original
question slides, recreating the random question slides,
uninstalling and reinstalling Flash on the target PC with the same
results.
Any one else noticed this?
Any suggestions for a fix other than publishing in Flash 7?

Did you or others submit an official bug report?
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Transition for Question Pool Slides

Captivate v5.5
I have a question pool of 20 slides with 5 random slides in the main project.
I have applied "Blinds" as a transition option to all 20 slides in the question pool.
When I test the questions (F8 starting on the slide before the first random question slide), the transitions do not work.
Any idea?
Noel

Hi Rod,
I previewed the whole project (F4) and still the transition did not work.
Having to publish it (eg to .exe I presume you mean) before I can check the slide transition seems a little long winded - but I will give it a go just in case.
Thanks...
Noel

Convert to Question Pool random questions?

We are updating a course we developed last year (prior to
Captivate 3). This year we want to apply Captivate 3's "Question
Pool random questions" to this course. Is there a way to create the
question pool(s) in this existing quiz, and then add last year's
questions to them without having to re-enter each question into the
Question Pool Manager?
Thank you for any tips!

Hi Jan
Sure thing. Just convert the version 1 or 2 project to a
version 3 project. Then define a Question Pool. Once you have done
that, switch to Storyboard view. Select the question slides you
wish to add to the pool and right-click. You should be presented
with an option to add the selected slides to the pool.
Once you have moved the question slides to a pool, you would
then insert Random slides that point to the pool.
Cheers... Rick

Questions are not randomizing in question pool

I have 30 questions in my question pool. I have 10 random question slides but everytime I go to quiz, the same 10 questions come up. I need help in troubleshooting this, please.

Once you launch a module and it sets up the specific questions that will be selected from the pool for that session, those are the only 10 questions you are going to see, no matter how many times you hit the Retake Quiz button. That is normal behaviour.
However, if you close down the module entirely and relaunch again at a later time, in theory you should stand a chance of seeing at least some different quiz questions. If you are consistently seeing EXACTLY THE SAME set of 10 quiz questions even after completely closing down and relaunching the session again, then that would be regarded as a randomization failure and you should report the bug to Adobe.

Results slide showing all question pool results not just the ones completed.

I have several question pools which have the option to be taken independently or separately.
If the user does not take all seven of the modules then the quiz results slide at the end is incorrect as it will report all of the questions not just the ones attempted.
I have tried the Branch aware option in the quiz results option but that did not worth.
It this an easy fix or does it require me to add a variable count for each correct answer.
Many thanks
Rick

Branch aware should be just fine for that case, why do you tell it is not working? Branch Aware Quiz - Captivate blog
When you say 'score slide is not reporting correctly', I had no such problems.
You could create a custom score slide indeed, using variables, but what if you have to report as a SCORM? Only possibility in that case is Branch aware.

How do you print the slides in the question pool in captivate 6?

how do you print the slides in the question pool in captivate 6?

You move them back into the main project first, and then print them like other slides.

How to review all questions in a question pool ?

Captivate v4
I have created projects each with a question pool of approx 15 questions from which 5 random questions with answers shuffled will be drawn at the end of the project.
I find that creating questions in v4 is very hit and miss and the formatting and alignment of shuffled questions cannt be trusted - so I need to review each slide in full "project" view - to make sure everything looks as it should before I upload it to our LMS.
Is there anyway I can just review just my questions slides (in full project view) without having to start at the beginning of the project ?
The F10 option does not work when the Question Pool is open...so any other ideas.
If I do go thru' the whole project - of course I only see 5 of the 15 questions - as that is how I have got the Question Pool set up. So that is no help.
Thanks hopefully...
Noel

Just in case anyone is interested.
The way I resolved this was to insert the same number of random question slides as there are questions in the question pool and then run the project.
As a result you get to see (and test) every slide in the question pool.
Once done - I reduced the number of random question slides to the required amount.
Not sure if this is the best way - but it worked for me.
NEL

Assign points to quiz slides using Question Pools Manager

Is it possible to assign the points to be reported for a slide when using the Question Pools Manager?
If one slide, for example, has 10 points, and another slide has 5 points, when they are both added to a question pool, do their loose their original number of points and get assigned whatever number of points chosen when a random slide is added to the pool?
I hope someone can clarify. Thanks.

I just checked in Captivate 5 and it looks like the scoring is associated with the Question Pool slide, not the Question slide that gets randomly inserted.
If you're trying to achieve a result where the difficulty of the question matched the number of points awarded for getting it right, you might need to set up a number of question pools. E.g. one pool for easy questions, another for medium difficulty, and a third for really difficult ones. Assign 1 or 2 points as the default for the easy ones, maybe 5 for medium, and 10 points for hard ones.
This is what I do in fact.

Grabbing Random Questions for the Question Pool

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.
Sincerely... Rick

Captivate Crashes When Editing Question Pool

Captivate v5.5
I have a project with 36 questions in a question pool.
I need to edit some the these QP questions but as soon as I start doing this I get the message that Captivate has encountered an error...very sorry...and must close down. I have tried it three times and it does it every time.
I have edited QP questions many times before without this problem.
I am not working via company network but I have just moved locations from one part of my office to another, in case this means anything.
Can anyone offer any suggestions. I am happy to provide any more details if required.
Noel

Hi Noel,
Can you let me know if the current location of your project is on any server or network?
Also, Launch Captivate beofre editing the Project, go to Edit --Preferences -- General-- Check the Option to Generate Project Backup.
Do one more test, create another project adn impor the Question pool of this project there -- File--Import --Question pool.
Try editing it fisrt in this dummy project, if it allows, try again on the main project.
If it still crashes, try copying all your slides excluding Quiz Result Slide to this project.
Thanks,
Anjaneai

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