Random branching for quiz questions

I have a quiz that has ten questions. I want participants to
answer all ten questions but not in any specific order. Is there a
setting for random branching within a quiz?

I've uploaded our solution to the random quiz in captivate to
the exchange. It doesnt randomize within a quiz, but it randomizes
quizzes from a pool of quizzes, which can have a similar effect.
This is a javascript patch to the HTML wrapper generated by
Captivate:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1282 018
Ellen
http://thedesignspace.net

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Is there any way for the results to show on a quiz page
without using the results screen?
Background: I am creating a WBT with several quizzes in it. I
am not showing the "results" page because we are truly not
"grading" them. These are more of "knowledge" checks throughout the
WBT. In addition, there is only one results page for the whole
WBT...even though there are 3-4 quizzes in the different sections
throughout...a bit confusing.
Is there any way to show the results (when the answer is
incorrect) on the page before continuing?
Thanks for any help!!!!

You can show the results of each individual question by using
one or more of the Incorrect, correct and incomplete hint captions.
You can turn these on or off and change the default text using the
Default Labels section of the Quiz Preferences dialog. You can also
edit them individually for each slide to tell them the correct
answer if the answer is false.
As for the results page, in a single captivate project you
cannot set up multiple quizzes in different sections. Captivate
treats quizzes in different sections as a single quiz and gives a
single results page after the last question. If you want multiple
quizzes with separate results in a single project, you can create
this illusion using a number of interconnected but separate
projects. If you don't want to grade your users you can just turn
off the results page using the Settings section of the Quiz
Preferences.
Hope this helps, I know the information I'm offering is basic
but it might answer your questions.
You can turn off the results page

Quiz questions will not retain format when question is changed.

OK forum folks. I'm working on my first e-learning project and have ran into a problem with question formating. The instructions/help basically tell you to click here and click there. I can easily figure that out. The questions I seem to have are quite a bit deeper.
I have a predefined template which is company approved. I have created master slides in the question pool for both a 4 item match and a 5 item match (I have found if I add a line to the 4 matching line quiz the line spacing and formatting changes). The placeholder questions are essentially non-questions.
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I change the placeholder questions on the duplicated slide to the real question (slide is still in the slide pool)
The formatting (font, spacing, locations, etc.) change on the new (edited) questions and require reformatting.I have also tried copying the master question slide to the filmstrip and editing the copied slide questions in the filmstrip. I receive the same results.
Is there are way I can create masters in the current format so I can use the approved templates, edit the questions and not have to reformat the slide after the questions have been changed?
Also, is there a way to lock the formatting of the questions? If I want to add/delete a new question or line to the slide, it would be great to be able to not have to reformat the slide for the change.
I look forward to your answers.
Thank you.

I am trying to deal with the same issue. The master slides are more about background elements and navigation buttons, but they do not seem to allow for the addition of quiz elements.
I have come up with a workaround that I hope will work. What I am doing is creating a new project that becomes my quiz question layout library (Let's call this Project 2). In this project I add the various types of questions I will be using in my project (multiple choice with three choices, multiple choice with five, true/false, etc...). I get all the quiz elements in place for each type of question (the header, question, submit/clear buttons, review area, etc...).
These slides serve as my Master slides for my actual project (Project 1). I can copy and paste the appropriate layout from Project 2 to Project 1 and then change the questions themselves.
I am sure I will find out the downside of this soon enough...
There is no doubt the creation of masters for quiz questions needs work, actually it needs just to exist!

JS for randomizing tiered quiz questions?

Alright noble edge users out there - I could really use your help:
I am creating a quiz in edge with 10 levels - each level asks a question dealing with a particular topic for that level. To make it more challenging/random, I want to allow each level's question to pull from a pool of 2-3 possible questions for that particular level (rather than one general pool for all 10 questions).
I have created symbols out of each question - and played with a few randomizing options - but I am a tragically front-end designer
Any help is greatly appreciate!

A lot of that depends on how you've structured your game. Hopefully someone can add to this, but If you're wanting to stick mostly to coding from the timeline in edge animate, then you could do something like this:
1) Insert a timeline label at the location of each question.
2) Insert a timeline trigger at the beginning of your animation to create global array that contains the names of each timeline label for your questions. Something like this:
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3) After you create the possibleQuestions array you can then send the user to the first random question by generating a random array index within the range of the remaining questions using something like this:
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     possible_questions.splice(random_index, 1);
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     sym.stop(next_question);
4) At each question, put something like this. If you want to detect the end of the game you can do that as well:
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          //game is done
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Randomized Quiz Questions in CP7: Back button goes forward

I've checked my on enter and on exit fields. Not sure why, but my randomized quiz questions' back buttons go forward. Very odd. Is there a setting I should check?
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Also, I need the student to be able to reanswer this question until they get it right, at which time the question stays answered.

Yes sir. Thanks for the reply, Rod. I was hoping you were on =)
I buy pretty much all of your stuff... went through the whole troubleshooting guide.
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How can I keep responses for each question of quiz.

For auditing purposes, I need to be able to record the user's answers for each of the 35 quiz questions.
How can I accomplish this?
Perhaps I can have the answers generated to a final answer page.

Normally this is done by the LMS...
If you need to do it in CP: there is a quizzing system variable cpQuizInfoAnswerChoice (Secrets of cpQuizInfoAnswerChoice and.... - Captivate blog)
Because this variable is reused for each question slide, you'll have to store its value in user variables, one for each question slide. But beware: depending on the type of question, this system variable doesn't have the full answer, but maybe only the number or character identifying the answer (A,B,...).

(presenter 7.0.7) presentations halt for no apparent reason at quiz questions

I have checked the quizzes in my course a thousand times, and I am positive they are set up right (see below for setup). But I still get random crashes at quiz slides while viewing the presentation. Any ideas about what is wrong? Could it have anything to do with hidden slides? Is there some time-out value that I need to set? Is this a problem with lengthy courses (mine is 150 slides)?
There is no video or audio in the slides.
Quiz design: If the answer to quiz A is wrong, the presentation sends you to the slide that precedes quiz A, which is a hidden review slide. You read the review and then advance to the quiz again. If the answer to quiz A is right, you are advanced two slides ahead, to quiz B--this skips you over the (hidden) review slide for quiz B.

Hi Kumar,
It is a halt. As soon as I select an answer on the quiz page, the presentation appears to stop running. I don’t get any acknowledgement response, and I can’t scroll to a previous page. If I click the refresh button in my browser (firefox), the presentation re-launches from slide 1.
thanks, Becky

Audio on last slide after quiz questions not playing

Captivate v5.5
I have a project with a question pool and a series of random questions
The random question slides are without audio.
After finishing the question pool the project closes with the final slide which does have some audio - which runs fine when I test the slide.
However when I test the whole project (F12) the audio on the last slide does not play.
The audio on the slides prior to the random question slides plays without any problem.
Any ideas please?
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Anjaneai,
Thanks for the suggestion. But changing the question setting to infinite attempts will just allow the user to retry each question over and over until they get it correct. I want to give them one chance to answer each question for the entire quiz. Then, if they don't pass, they can try the entire quiz again.
I ended up finding a resolution, though. Based on one of the suggestions from this blog, I just shortened my slide time for each question to .5 sec (it was originally 3 sec). That seemed to do the trick!
http://blog.icslearninggroup.com/2011/12/adobe-captivate-quirks.html
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Add video feedback to quiz question

There is a presentation demo on the Adobe site called 'Breeze
for Rapid-training' which has a question and when answered, plays a
video. I cannot seem to find any information to do this. how is it
done?
Thanks Michelle

Are you sure the feedback is on the same slide or are they
using branching to send you to a choice of slides with video on
them? I believe this is how you'd do it:
First, create a slide continaing you're video.
Then use the hide slide function in powerpoint so that people
won't be able to access the slide unless they go through the quiz
to get to it
Now craete a quiz question and use the branching feature to
go to that slide with the video
This is a very quick and dirty explanation, so please let me
know if you need more explanation or if you need more detail.
Best,
Jon

Is there a way I can randomize quiz questions in Adobe Captivate 6 on multiple attempts?

I am trying to find a way in Captivate 6 to randomize quiz questions out of a pool (i.e.; 50 random questions slides are linked to a pool containing 63 questions, I want to allow for 3 attempts). Things work great witht he first attempt, but Captivate 6 is not generating new questions when I click the Retake Quiz button after failing the first attempt. Captivate 6 simply gives the exact same 50 questions as the first attempt in the exact same order. Is there any way around this issue in Captivate 6? Thank you in advance for any suggestions you have!

Rod, just thinking out loud, and maybe this is too complex...
Could (generic) you insert multiple random-question-slides and then control which slide is viewed based on how many quiz attemps have been made?
That is..
Slide 1 - question 1a
Slide 2 - question 1b
Slide 3 - question 1c
On first attempt, go to slide 1, skip slide 2 and 3. On second attempt, skip slide 1, go to slide 2, skip slide 3. On third attempt, skip slides 1 and 2, go to slide 3.
Could you use the cpQuizInfoAttempts variable to control the slide order with an advanced action?

Backwards Navigation When Reviewing Quiz Questions

I have discovered from some students that they can cheat on my quiz. They take the quiz, review their answers and make note of the correct answers, then either drag the navigation slider backwards or click the Back button to return to the beginning of the quiz. This resets their original answers and allows them to retake the quiz with the answers they took from their notes.
The quiz is set up to allow multiple attempts, but I assume they should be starting over with each attempt. My quiz questions are randomized from a test pool, so hopefully they do not see the same questions again and not in the same order. However, by cheating in this way, they can take the same questions in the same order.
Is there anyway to limit backwards movement when reviewing the quiz?
I have turned off backwards movement while they are taking the quiz, but this setting is turned off when they start reviewing the quiz.
I am using Captivate 5.

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.
My instructions tell them to relaunch the training, go through it again, and then take the quiz again. With the questions and answers being randomized, I was hoping that their notes (question 1 answer is B - question 2 answer is C - etc.) would not be very helpful to them and they would put effort into taking notes from the training to help them on the test instead.
You said the following:
"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.
I have disabled backwards movement during the quiz, but once you start reviewing a quiz, backwards movement is once again enabled via the slider or back button.
I can hide the playbar and navigation controls, but when you get to the review, the navigation controls remain hidden and you cannot advance through the questions to see the results. I thought of adding a separate Forward button on the quiz question slides to allow the user to go forward as they review the slides, but you cannot add buttons or clickboxes to question slides.
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.
Does anyone have any other ideas?
By the way, after typing up this response, I started doing some playing around, and I figured out a fix. I turn off the navigation controls before the quiz and enable the Skip button on each question slide. With the navigation off, the user can answer the questions and click Submit. Then when reviewing the answers, they can navigate forward by clicking Skip. They can no longer navigate backwards through the quiz and training material.

Answer quiz questions in any order?

I am creating a project that branches into three main topics
from a menu. At the end of each topic there is a set of quiz
questions. If the users choose to complete, for example, topic two
or three before topic one then the questions after topic one read
the message "You did not answer this question completely" and the
user can not choose an answer.
I believe this is becuase they are completing questions 4-8
(for example) before questions 1-3. How can I change my project so
that they can answer the questions in any order.

Hi Lougle and welcome to the Captivate forums!
Captivate REALLY wants you to take quizzes in linear order,
so if it's possible at all to allow non-linear movement, your best
bet is probably going to be as follows:
In the Settings node of the Quiz properties:
1) Required dropdown =
Optional - the user can skip the quiz
2) Allow backward movement checkbox =
Checked
Ideally, the combination of the two should allow both forward
and backwards movement, but with Captivate quizzes, nothing is
certain.
Let us know how it works out!
Cheers,
John

Aggregator seems to randomize quize questions from various project files

I am using Captivate 5.5.
I created 10 quizzes, each in its own captivate project. Each project has its own quiz ID and the question slides are randomized using one pool. 'when I publish each captivate project file, the quzi (swf file) the questions are fine.
However, when I aggregate all 10 files into an aggregate project, I get quiz questions from different project files...and the title slide doesn't even match the master slide for that quiz! For example, after aggregating the project file, my Ch 2 quiz would contain question slides from various chapters...and the
the title slide doesn't even match the chapter for that question.

When you use Question Pools, the SWF files for the pools are external to the SWF. The filenames for the question pools are taken from whatever you called the pool, with the letters _CQP on the end.
When you use Aggregator, all of the SWF files for each aggregated project file are placed in the same folder. Each project is not kept isolated in it's own folder.
So if any of your question pools happen to have the same name, they may overwrite one another when Aggregator compiles them into the same folder.
Go back into your projects and make sure you first give each published project file a unique name. Then append the name of each question pool with some extra letters that differentiate it from a similar pool in any of the other projects. Then republish everything again and build another Aggregated version from scratch. See if that resolves the issue.

Quiz questions

Hi guys
I'm having difficulty with a multi choice question type (haven't tried this with other question types as of yet).
As there is fairly lengthy feedback for each question I want to go to a seperate slide for the info. However, no matter what I do I can't get the jump beyond the next slide??? I've tried the "Jump to slide " action to no avail, I've positioned the feedback slides (one for correct and another for incorrect) within the quiz but again it will only jump to the next slide.
Anyone got any experience of this?
Robbie

You would probably find it easier to radomize an array and
use the random order from the first to the last. That way there is
no issue with repeating the same question.
var questionsOrdered = new Array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8);
function shuffle(a:Array):Array {
var len:Number = a.length-1;
for (var ivar:Number = len; ivar>=0; ivar--) {
var p:Number = Math.floor(Math.random()*(ivar+1));
var t = a[ivar];
a[ivar] = a[p];
a[p] = t;
return a;
var questionsRandomized = shuffle(questionsOrdered);

Captivate 6 - Published - PDF does not play quiz questions

I just published my captivate 6 presentation. I am launching the .pdf file to view. At the end, the quiz questions do not work. I get a white screen and not my questions. Any ideas? Thanks

Below is a screen shot of the published settings. The whole training presentation plays as expected. Then when it gets to the quiz questions I get a white screen and nothing happens.
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