Quizzes in captivate

I have imported a PowerPoint into captivate, and added 14
multiple choice or t/f questions. If a student misses a question, I
have captivate branch out to a review slide and then from the
review slide the student has the opportunity to answer the question
again. With this scenario, every student should be able to achieve
100%. The first three quiz questions work perfectly. If the student
provides the wrong answer, captivate branches out to the
appropriate review slide and then back to the question--where the
previous answer is cleared and the student can provide a new
answer. On question #4 on, the branching to review material works,
but when brought back to the question, the stated answer is
displayed on the bottom of the question slide and the student
cannot provide a new answer. I've checked all the settings between
the first three questions and the remaining questions, and all
looks to be the same. Any thoughts?

I think this is a bug and it might still be in CP4
I have my stuff setup fro SCORM1.2, but the pattern remains
true even if i turn reporting off.
Here is my example:
Cover Slide
Slide 1
Slide 2
Quiz1 - If correct go to Slide 3
If Incorrect - This slide- Button to loop back to Slde 1
Slide 3
Slide 4
Quiz2 - If correct go to Slide 5
If Incorrect - This slide - Button to loop back to Slde 3
Slide 5
Slide 6
Quiz3 - If correct go to END
If Incorrect - This slide - Button to loop back to Slde 5
End
The problem that I have seen is that it only allows two of
these to work. Basically the first one and the last one.
Notice that after a quiz I always go forwards... SCORM
requires forward movement for scoring so the incorrect responses go
forward one slide and THEN loop back. But I am seeing a limit of 2
for this to work and thus #3 will not reset. It behaves like this
in CP4 too.
You could do sets of 2 and then JUMP to another set by
launching another file. You can link to CP the course files (htm
files) or to CP files and the compile will know what to do about
that.
Best to make up an example and send it to tech support for
analysis.
Joe C.

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Hi there
A bit of clarification if I may...
Linking to the .CP file is only the right thing to do if you constructed your links using the "Open other project" option. If you used the "Open URL or File" option, you wouldn't link to the .CP file. You would link to the .HTM page.
.CP files are project source files and you should never see them on the server.
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Best way to achieve multiple paths with quizzes using Captivate 6?

I’m looking for the best way to achieve multiple paths and quizzes using Captivate 6.
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Here is the error that I get when trying to Export quizzes
from Captivate 2 to Flash 8.
"An internal Adobe Captivate error (bad argument) occured. If
you have any questions please contact Adobe Technical Support."
I've noticed that this only happens if there are quizzes in
the project. I have tried everything that Adobe FAQ's and TechNotes
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Answering my own question.....Received this fix:
I think that I know what you did. When you had Captive 1 you
changed a dll file in order for it to work with Flash 8. They
forgot to mention that if you did this fix back in 1.0 that it
would corrupt the process in 2.0.
Go here:
C:\Documents and Settings\<UserID>\Local
Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
8\en\Configuration\Importers
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How can I have multiple quizzes in Captivate 5.5

I would like to do multiple quizzes within one module. Ideally, you would have to pass each quiz before moving on to the next section. Is that possible using Captivate 5.5?

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Maybe I don't understand quizzing in captivate 6?

In my project I have several quizes that I don't really want to score but I still want the user to get feedback on right or wrong answers. Also they don't have to actually answer the quiz. They can skip ahead or leave the quiz and go to another page. The last twist is the project is broken into 4 modules that would be taken by 4 different groups. Each may access the same quiz again to just test knowledge. It all appears to be working, but during testing it's been reported that once a set of questions is answered they are locked. So if a user goes throught mod 1 and take a quiz then goes into mod 2 and clicks the quiz it shows up taken. I've read a few post and they show how you can leave a quiz and come back to finish. They show how on the results page you can have a retake button. But I haven't found where I can reset the entire quiz before the person enters into it?

Mark,
Your expectations of how this "should be able to work" are entirely reasonable.
I've been struggling with Captivate's quizzing model ever since I abandoned a custom Flash elearning shell to use Captivate in order to support iOS.
It would be nice if Captivate questions had an option like:
"Reset question on enter slide".
In fact, if you only need HTML5 output, you can do this: In the "On enter" slide properties box, execute the following javascript on every quiz slide "resetQuizData()".
I wish I could find the corresponding function call for swf output so I could create a widget that would do the same.
Note that all questions get reset once you show the quiz results screen.
One hack I've been playing with is to jump to the Quiz Results screen after answering every question that won't be in a "final scored quiz". For these question screens, simply set points to zero. The trick is, use an advanced action to jump to the quiz results screen and then jump back to the page that follows the jump page.
Then in the final quiz, lock the student into the final quiz (by hiding the playbar) until the student finishes all the final quiz questions.

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I created one quiz question just to publish a course and test it for SCORM/LMS reporting
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Thanks,
Fiona.

Welcome to our community
I'm skeptical that it has anything remotely to do with the Pool Manager. Check the link below for a likely explanation.
Click here to view
Cheers... Rick
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Hello,
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1
B
C
A
2
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Welcome to our community
I'm not sure you will really find any answers here other than to suggest you publish the Captivate as a SWF and place it on a server, then point your users to the server to take the quiz.
The thing is, an EXE is an EXE from the standpoint of an anti-virus application. Many of these applications look inside EXE files for telltale signs of a virus, but generally speaking, all EXE files are suspect. Sort of Guilty until proven innocent. And there are very good reasons for blocking EXE files that arrive via E-Mail.
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Cheers... Rick
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Hi,
Captivate 4, cp4
I have been all around the forums without getting an exact answer to what I want to do. Perhaps there isn't one but, anyway...
I am trying to collect quiz information. I just want a simple collection of data that shows that someone has completed the quiz, which just a set of multiple response statements, and who that someone is. I have started by using Text Entry Boxes (TEB) to collect their name and assigned a variable (v_Name) to this to reuse the information in a certificate. So far so good and this works. I have set up email reporting on the quiz and, providing users actually hit the button and accept both messages, the email gets sent. All I am looking for in the email is that a user has completed the quiz. The score and results do not matter. Now, here comes the issue. I would like to record the user's name (v_Name) in the quiz results that are emailed in. No matter how many reporting options or marks I give the TEB or what options for reporting I select the information will not appear in the emailed report. I can set up a question slide to ask for the name and this will appear in my emailed report but will not appear in my certificate.
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LMS is not a solution at the moment and upgrading is unlikely to happen as I am still trying to get all Captivate users in the office up to 4 from 3!
Is it possible to take a quiz answer and use it like a TEB variable and put it into another slide via a caption? E.G., $$Interaction1234$$ or some action script to make v_Name = interaction1234?
I am looking for a simple solution. I have looked into all of the post to database articles and they have been somewhat helpful but I am only trying to capture simple data so as the users can just be ticked off as having completed it.
I am not holding out much hope. It seems quizzing in Captivate is good for self-assessment and to provide branching but the reporting feature is a bit of a failure.
Thanks very much to anyone who just reads this and gets this far!
Even more thanks to anyone who is willing to share ideas.
Greig

Email reporting has so many potential failure points that (in my opinion) it has to be considered one of those reporting options that you only use as a last resort when nothing else is open to you. LMS reporting is by far the best way to go, but that's just not an option for many people. Adobe kindly provided External Server Reporting as an option in Captivate 5, but that also requires access to a server running PHP and at least some technical exoertise.
In your case, the only things I can suggest trying are to make sure your publish folder location has been added to Flash Player Global Security as a trusted location, or to upload your published project files to a web server and test from there. Sometimes this email reporting issue turns out to be Flash security related.
The email reporting widget is definitely worth a shot and is very inexpensive when you consider how many hours you can spend trying to chase down these issues.
In the end, if you get email reporting to work reliably, consider yourself one of the lucky few.

Cannot advance through Captivate quiz after publishing to Adobe Connect.

We use Adobe Connect to present live on-line webinars to our students. We have been using Captivate to survey the students at the beginning and end of each class. I created quizzes in Captivate and published them to our Connect server. Most of the time the quizzes work fine. But some students are not able to click the submit button and advance through the quiz. Any ideas why some participants wouldn't be able to complete Captivate quizzes?

I will try that with our classes today. The weird thing is that we have 3 meeting rooms that we use these Captivate surveys in, and the same student can complete the survey in one meeting room but not another.

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I apologize in advance, the "search within this forum" function is not working, so I can't search the Captivate forum to see if this question has already been answered.
When you develop training and quizzes in Captivate, I've heard you can post the files on SharePoint, and then SharePoint will capture the student information and quiz results. Has anyone successfully done this just using a standard SharePoint site, and not the SharePoint LMS that is offered?

Hi Jim,
I can't seem to get a reply from anyone on the forum for the SharePoint Learning Kit, so maybe you can answer my question.
Once you set up your SharePoint site and download the SharePoint Learning Kit, how do you activate the kit on your site?
Thanks,
Melinda
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:44:17 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Using Captivate with SharePoint
The http://slk.codeplex.com/ is designed to provide a full blown LMS inside of SharePoint and it's free.
SharePoint Learning Kit is a SCORM 2004 certified e-learning delivery and tracking application built as a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 solution. It works with either Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and has the following core features:
Supports SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and Class Server content, allowing users to store and manage this content in SharePoint document libraries.
Supports learner-centric and instructor-led (assigned) workflows.
Allows assignment, tracking and grading of both e-learning and non-e-learning content.
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Jim Leichliter
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I have a professor that has created quizzes in Captivate and saved them as SCORM and uploaded into D2L.
Each quiz is a separate SCORM package that he uploads individually. Unfortunately, every time he uploads a new one, it overwrites the previous one. No matter if we tell D2L to overwrite the previous file or not, the new file overwrites the previous one.
The quizzes come in to D2L always with the Module Title of “Captivate E-Learning Course” and the quiz title of “Course Object title”, even though the file names are different.
I believe it’s due to the imsmanifest file referencing a generic title “Captivate E-Learning Course” and in another instance “Course Object title”.
How can I change this info without going into the SCORM files and manually changing them each time? Thanks.

You are correct that this information originates inside the SCORM settings within Captivate. There's a button in the Quiz Settings dialog to open another smaller dialog where you configure the Course ID and individual SCO IDs plus other details that will be written to the imsmanifest.xml file that is output with the SCO.
You need to set this up in Captivate in the CPTX project file each time you create a new SCO.
Since you're working with a professor, I would assume he or she is intelligent enough to do this for you...once you point it out to them.

Captivate Certificate Widget - Printing Problems.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? It's not a problem in Captivate, per say, but it's Captivate related.
First some vital facts:
OS: Mac OS X 10.6.4
Captivate 5
Flash: CS4
Flash Player: 10.1.53.64
Browser: Firefox
I have a customized Captivate Certificate Widget (AS3) from Captivate 4 that works perfectly. When one clicks the "Print Button", the print dialog box comes up and when one checks the print preview option, one sees the certificate ready to be sent to the printer.
Fantastic. Now I want to save this Flash file as a new file and I want to change a textbox on the certificate that is no connected to the ActionScript at all. When I publish this new file, the Print button no longer works. Can anyone explain this?
I have, in fact taken a look at the new Captivate 5 Certificate Widget. I published it out and it's print button doesn't work either! I took both my swfs into XP and opened them and they both worked fine in Firefox and IE.
After further examining both Flash files for the CP4 Certificate Widget and the CP5 Certificate Widget, I keep noticing that an error is traced to the output window when publishing the files. The error appears after pressing the Print button and then canceling the print. The error that I'm getting is:
TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter child must be non-null.
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/removeChild()
at CertificateWidget_fla::MainTimeline/ClickPrint()
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If anyone could help, that would be great. I don't want to tell my client that the certificate that was working, now doesn't work for no apparent reason.

I use Cap 4 for testing. You put a name field in the first slide, then the certificate widget will fill in the name, date, and score. You get a print or e-mail field at the bottom of the certificate.
I used Internet sources to find out how to do some things, but the Adobe free online webinars taught me most of it.
Web sites: 1. http://blogs.adobe.com/edtechatadobe/2009/06/some_widget_fun_with_captivate.html
2. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WS48CDC052-3430-49b3-9BFC-0FC7793F1C34.htm l
3. http://stevehoward999.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/captivate-4-capture-stor-and-display-your-u sers-name/
Adobe webinars: New one coming up: Effectively using Acrobat.com with Adobe Captivate 5 for Tracking Learners’ Quiz Results, May 11, 2011, 10:00 PT http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=list&type=eseminar&loc=en_us
There are five or six more on Captivate on this page...scroll down. After the upcoming sessions, there are dozens of recorded session (one about adding quizzes in Captivate 5). (You just have to create an Adobe log in and password to be able to sign up for the webinars or watch and listen to the recorded versions if you miss it.)
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