Quiz navigation

I am building a Captivate project with a 10 question quiz
that will be hosted on a Federal Government site. Needless to say
it needs to be 508 compliant. My problem is that when I enter the
quiz using the keyboard (tab key) I have no problem tabbing through
the choices and using the space bar to select and submit the answer
for the first question. BUT when I try and go to the next question
I have to tab navigate through the entire web site and all the
non-Captivate links before I can re-enter the quiz and answer
question 2. Is there a way to keep "focus" on the quiz swf and
cycle only through it without having to cycle through the entire
html web page? Thanks

Hi Tsquared
See if the link below helps any.
Click
here to read a blog post
Cheers... Rick

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Thanks for the detail.
Couple things then...
1. 58+ slides is a lot of slides. Can you cut the project into two courses?
2. If you copy the project then delete slide 57 and/or 58, does the navigation work as expected? Maybe it's an issue with just those slides.
3. Do you have the latest version of CP7? (Adobe - Adobe Captivate Support Center : Downloads) - no guarantee but be sure you're working with the latest version.
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I checked the Advanced Interactions, but did not find any interactive object on slide 10 where I’m being thrown back to.
It did seem kind of weird that the Results page does not show any interactive objects when there is a Continue button and Retake button on the slide.
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Thanks for the information. Yes I have set the quiz up to allow users to review their answers. Yes I assume they will take notes on the answers, but I have not enabled the Retake Quiz button. Once they get to the results page and choose to review their answers, I assumed (incorrectly) that their answers would be locked and they would not be able to change the answers or results for their attempt.
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"If a user clicks the Review Quiz button after any attempt, they will be unable to perform a new attempt on that quiz until they relaunch the lesson again. Also, if the user jumps outside the Quiz Scope by navigating back to any slide before the first scored object or quiz question, they will be unable to reattempt the quiz until relaunch."
I have tested this out, launching the training from the LMS, and it is not correct. I can go through the quiz, review my results, drag the slider or click the back button to the beginning of the quiz, and take the quiz again.
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I could certainly turn off the review functionality, but I think it is valuable information to the student. I need to allow them to retake the quiz, as my boss has set a very high bar (100% passing score) on the quiz.
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Not in Cp 5.5. In Captivate 6x versions there is a new feature called Submit All that allows you to do what you want. I suggest you think about upgrading to the Subscription Edition.

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I have created a quiz in Captivate 3, and enabled the review
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properly. My issue is not being able to go on to the next question.
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Welcome to our community, Lisa
One possibility would involve saving the existing project as
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quiz and one would have the rest of the stuff (demo, sim,
whatever). You would then link from one to the other.
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I've figured this out, and thought I'd post the solution here, in case anyone else comes across this issue.
The problem revolves around the fact that Captivate is a bit buggy when dealing with backwards movement and quizzes. My slide navigation basically meant that users had to Go through three Intro slides before getting to the Home screen. From the home screen, they clicked links to six different sections in order, the final section being the Exam section. Because the Home page was the fourth slide in the Captivate slide, if a user failed the quiz and returned to the Home slide, the course was a bit buggy as noted in my post above.
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