Quiz scoring incorrect

Hi
A user has taken a quiz in a course. He failed the first time
and so he did it again this time getting 100% of the questions
correct. On his score page though it shows he has passed with a
score of 88%.
Is it taking his first attempt into account? If so how do I
stop that happening and only get his latest scores?
The quiz is feeding into SCORM LMS.
Details read:
Your score - 44
Max Score - 50
Questions Correct - 5
Number of Questions - 5
Accuracy - 88%

Go to the Advanced Interactions and verify the values of each
question and click boxes. Make sure no other click boxes have point
values assigned to them. How many points is each question? 10?
Take the LMS out of the picture. It is possible the LMS is
doing some kind of averaging with all the attempts.
For troubleshooting purposes, have the Captivate quiz email
you the scores instead. It's a more reliable form of
troubleshooting.
-Ryan

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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?
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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?
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Hi all,
I'm on CP5 for Mac.
I have a short quiz with two questions. If they get the first question correct, I want to take the learner to a second question slide based on implicit feedback. If they miss the first question, I want to take the learner to a second, different slide that is, again, based on implicit feedback. Point is, I want to go to two different places depending on if the first question is correct. I know I can use an advanced action to make this happen.
The second slide is basically asking the same question whether or not the learner got the first question right. My path looks like a "Y"... which means I have three questions in the quiz. I only want two questions to be scored. Here's my question: what kinds of problems will this approach present for CP? Is there a better workflow to create this type of quiz that I should be aware of?
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P.S. Lillybri, just getting this one out there to get some feedback while I go work your tutorials. :-)

The above approach worked. I created a user variable called q1Correct. On entering the first question slide, I ran an action called initScenario and set q1Correct with a default value of 0 in anticipation of the learner getting the question wrong. On exiting the slide, if the learner answered the question correctly, I ran another action called q1IsCorrect and changed the value of q1Correct to 1; then I jumped to question slide 2. If the learner missed the first question, I just jumped to slide 2 - since q1Correct already had a default value of 0, indicating that the answer was wrong, I didn't need to run any actions on exit with an incorrect answer. On the second question slide, I checked the value of q1IsCorrect in a third (conditional) action, and showed my custom text accordingly. More specifically, if q1Correct was equal to 1 (meaning the answer was right), then I showed the appropriate text caption. Conversely, if q1Correct was 0 (meaning the earlier answer was incorrect), I showed another text caption.
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Sorry, i wasn't very clear on why I'm looking to do this. I'm actually looking to do it in an assessment rather than a quiz. What I'd like to happen is this:
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Sorry if this is already answered elsewhere...
I create 1 quiz slide, eg fill in the blank, and have 8
blanks to fill in, and give the 'Points' field a value of 8.
Yet when I take the quiz, I have to get all 8 correct to get
the 8 points. If I miss even 1, I get 0 out of 8.
(yes I could put each of the 8 blanks on its own fill in the
blank slide, but that's not practical for what I'm doing)
Why doesn't there seem to be a scoring option for 7,6,5...
out of 8 correct? This also seems to be the case with other quiz
styles. Why is it all or nothing scoring?
Thanks for any help,
Keith

Hi Keith,
I'm finding the same, unfortunately. What sort of Hitler
designed the fill-in-the-blanks slide? "You scored less than 100%,
you worthless wretch. You must walk the plank."
How hard is it to loop through the fecking answers, checking
each one against a value? It's 2 arrays and a loop.
Please feel free to reply with a repudiation if we've
overlooked something here.
Thanks.
Pete.

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I am using Captivate 6. I have a project of 60 slides including 10 quiz question slides. I am using Remediation. When the quiz is launched, I want my users to review the information slide if they select the wrong answer and return to the quiz.
My "attempts" is set to 1.
My Last Attempt sends my users to specific slides if they guess incorrectly.
Each slide is set to "return to quiz"
The Rememdiation process works great. I've tested all the quiz slides by choosing an incorrect answer then jumping to the review slide then returning to the quiz to select the correct answer.
However, at the Results slide at the end of the quiz states that I have FAILED the quiz. I don't understand why this is possible? Each time I 'return to the quiz' I select the 'correct' answer. Why would I get a Failing grade?
Can someone please explain this to me? And how I can resolve this issue? I need my users to 'Pass" the quiz if they achieve a passing grade even if they had to use the 'remediation slides.'
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Thanks for posting this. I had promised to explain the new functionalities in some articles, like I did in the past because of the lack of documentation by Adobe, but still didn't find the time and now have to transfer my blog to another host as well.
Indeed, I would never have suggested to increase the number of attempts at all, it should be possible to change the answer when getting back from the content slide even with only 1 attempt.
I will try to explain what I understand about 'Branch aware', a new feature as well. It makes the Quizzing system variables 'dynamic', instead of static. Normally when turned off, the maximum score, the number of question slides are fixed when the user takes the first question. If Branch aware is turned on, those values will be calculated dynamically from the question slides that are visited by the user. This means that if you provide a bunch questions for beginners, and another bunch for advanced users and the student chooses one of them, the maximum score and the number of questions that will appear on the score slide (and be used to calculate percentage and Pass/Fail status) are based only on that branch of questions.
Your experience now could be explained (have to double-check, please beware) as follows:
when the user comes back to a question slide, this is counted for a second time in the number of questions and its individual score is also added a second time to the maximum score
when the percentage is calculated (did you show it in the score slide?), since the total score is now more than normal, that percentage will be lower than expected
Pass/Fail status is checked based on that Percentage compared to the minimum percentage required, so this could explain the Fail status.
Something I really have to check out, and hopefully when my blog is transferred, try to tell other users about my exploring. I already did detect a lot of problems, and most (if not all) are solved in the latest patches/upgrades. Maybe this is another aspect that should be addressed, or at least get a warning dialog.
Here the links to the articles about question slides in previous versions:
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/question-question-slides-in-captivate
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/question-question-slides-part-2
Lilybiri
PS Only now checked your screenshots, did reply to your last mail. NaN means not available... so this could mean that Captivate is confused and didn't know or got stuck on updating the system variables cpQuizInfoTotalQuizPoints and cpQuizInfoTotalQuestionsPerProject. Default status is Failed, and since CP cannot calculate the percentage, this will be reported as Failed.

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Hey, I'm trying to build a basic quiz – there are 6 questions and I want it to display a score at the end. Everything works and it shows a value at the end (but always '0'). It's not keeping proper scoring as users go along, it should be adding '1' point for each score, no matter what option is clicked it just traces '0' in the output window. Maybe something to do with the variable or? Kinda new to Flash, the chunk of code I believe to be the issue is below, thanks.
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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
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I tried changing the objective ID, but it changes it for all 30
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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
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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
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questions.

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I have a project that was created in Captivate 2 and
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"Check Answer" button, it scores all answers as incorrect. However,
if the user returns to the quiz and clicks "Check Answer" it scores
the same answers as correct. (and that is right)
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Hi Barb
The Check Answer button is what users must click. The other
button is used for the review process. Unfortunately, what you need
to do is ensure your users know the Check Answer or Submit button
is the proper button to use. If they don't, the question is not
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You are SO nice to send a sample to me. Thank you! That
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clicked on Enable reporting for this project and clicked on email -
entered an email address and chose my report data, etc. Then when I
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Hi there.
I've got a quiz with a few questions that have more than one answer. For example, a fill in the blanks with 5 blanks.
Is there any way to have the user score 1 point per blank? At the moment if I set it to 5 points, they still score 0, even if they get 4 out of the 5 correct.
I'm trying to do the same thing for a matching question too (1 point per correct match).
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Indeed. You can 'add' that score to the Quiz total (look in Advanced Interaction panel - F9) and the system quizzing variables take into account the score obtained by those interactive objects: buttons, shape buttons, Text Entry Buttons, click boxes and interactive widgets. Have multiple examples on my blog (some claim it is worthless, incomprehensible) of custom question slides created with standard objects where the score is obtained using interactive objects.

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Just one detail in Lilybiri's post that I want to make sure everyone understands. In Lilybiri's example the Review Mode custom variable she has set up gets set AFTER all quiz attempts have been exhausted.
As she points out, she has dragged the Review Quiz button underneath the Retake Quiz button so that the ONLY way the user can initiate Review Mode is by exhausting the number of allowed attempts. This is a critical point. Because unless you do this, and both Review Quiz and Retake Quiz buttons are visible side by side on the slide, the user could click Review Quiz BEFORE they have exhausted all quiz attempts and then the solution would not work as expected because the custom variable has not yet been set.
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Rod Ward
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/troubleshoot-adobe-captivate

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So obvious I don't know why I didn't think of that. LOL
Many thanks that works.
It would appear that the only way to adjust the pause is to add time to the
slide as I am unable to slide the pause back. But changing the slide of 3
secs to 3.1 does work.
Is there an easy way to do this for ALL slides or do I just have to do it
one by one.
Again many thanks
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Jeddah by the sea, Saudi Arabia.

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1. Add click box.
2. Set to 1 attempt
3. If clicked correctly, advance to next slide.
4. If clicked incorrectly, continuing playing current slide
5. Add "Please Try Again" image in timeline to show AFTER click box Pause.
6. If I want to allow multiple failed attampts before moving to the next slide, duplicate items 1 - 5 above, adding it later in the timeline,
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BTW - This is Captivate CS5.
Just thought of a better solution.
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display when the question has been answered incorrectly)? I have
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pop-up that says "You answered correctly and this is why you
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rita the reader,
You are very welcome for the help. I have been through a lot
lately with learning the ins and outs of the Captivate software and
several people greatly assisted me. I don't mind giving back by
assisting you.
Yes, you are correct. Simply double-click on the box that
says "Correct. Click to continue", enter your verbiage in the
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