Quiz Slide: Short Answer

When creating a Quiz in Adobe Captivate 5, and you select Short Answer as the Question Slide type, can Captivate look for certain words within the end-user’s answer to flag the answer as correcxt or does the answer have to be a word for word exact phrase that was entered in the Correct Entries dialog? Basically we would like to have a free-form answer from the end user and if they have entered certain keywords within their answers, the question would be flagged as correct. If not, is there another way to do that programmatically and have it still report to an LMS as being correct? Thanks in advance.

Hello,
I think I've a solution for you, double-checking it and will publish on my blog. For that solution I used the TextArea widget that comes free with Captivate, a user variable and advanced actions. For the moment I worked out 2 examples of Short Answer question slides:
Where score is attributed only if all the keywords are in the short answer; this is the hardest part because of case sensitivity of variable values
When score is attributed per keyword: if there are 3 keywords, the user can get a score of 2, 4 or 6 points, if he has 1, 2 or 4 keywords mentioned.
Re-reading your question, I could add a third one where the score is attributed if the user has only 1 keyword, OK?
Will post the link here, when the blog post is published. I used the same widget for a FIB question with partial scoring as well (what is not possible with default FIB question slide).
Lilybiri

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Sorry, but apparently we do live in different time zones, morning over here, have to teach in a few minutes.
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version 4.0
Output - swf\htm
Hello
Have been working on some elearning now locally for a while which combines straight slides then ends with random quiz slides.
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Try first to understand how the work flow of question slides is designed:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/question-question-slides-in-captivate
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