Reporting duration in Captivate 7

In Captivate 7, how do you display how long it took a user to complete a quiz on the results page as well as report the time to an LMS?
Is this through widgets or variables or advanced actions?
Thanks.

Could answer your first question, second question depends on the LMS: can you report variables to the LMS?
You could find some help in this blog post:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/display-time-information
But of course you should start the 'recording' of the time on the first Quiz slide. The variable can be displayed on the Score slide. And if your LMS can get the value of variables, it can be reported. Beware: in CP7 some system variables have gotten another name, here is the list with the CP6-variables, in CP7 only 3 new ones appeared that are not relevant for your use case:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/system-variables-in-captivate-6
In the LMS i used, time spent on a file could be captured directly by a LMS. That could be an easier way, if you have the Quiz in a separate file, but then the time will not be displayed on the score slide of course.
Lilybiri

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Hi,
Here's something I found in a similar situation... hope this helps!
After publishing your CP5 project as a SCORM 2004 zip file, unzip the file so you can get into the separate files. Open the imsmanifest.xml file with a text editor; I like using Notepad++. Search for the line starting with <imsss:minNormalizedMeasure>. The complete line will probably look like <imss:minNormalizedMeasure></imss:minNormalizedMeasure>, this is the line that is supposed to contain your passing score (at least for our LMS). So, if your passing score is supposed to be 80%, edit this line to be: <imsss:minNormalizedMeasure>0.80</imsss:minNormalizedMeasure> and save the file. Then select all the files and re-zip them, I use 7-zip for that.
I found one other weird thing that doesn't happen 100% of the time, so test it. In the example above, try to get a score of exactly 80% (or whatever passing grade you are using) and see if you get the correct status reported. I found I sometimes have to re-edit that line in the manifest file to be 0.79 so it correctly includes an exact 80% score. No idea why and you have to watch the number of questions in your quiz to make sure that works for you mathematically.
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I have a few questions and one outstanding issue.
My Issue:
I can’t get the score to be recorded by the Success Factors LMS.
Question 1)
I notice that the quiz reporting section in Captivate 7’s Preferences menu has a “Data To Report” section.
However, for SCORM 2004 and Tin Can, there is no option to report Quiz Score like there is for SCORM 1.2 and AICC.
Is reporting the score impossible for those reporting standards?
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My organization is using the Success Factors LMS and I’m trying to get the score to be recorded by the LMS.
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Is (are) there some parameter(s) on Captivate’s side that I need to be setting for Success Factors to correctly record the score?
- Maybe Captivate (in SCORM 1.2) should be reporting the Score as points and not percentage?
- Maybe I should be using AICC?
Is (are) there some parameter(s) on Success Factor’s side to interface correctly with Captivate?
I’ve checked the Adobe forums, but I don’t see any help there and
I’ve googled the issue to the point of exhaustion and frustration.
So, I would very much appreciate the help.
Thank you for your time.
Provided below is a screenshot of my Quiz Reporting settings:

Last year I worked with a customer who has the SuccessFactors LMS and, after some issues and discussions, the SF folks suggested their LMS supports AICC better than SCORM.
That stunned me a bit...
SO, sure, barring anything else, it may not hurt to try AICC!
And I think SF is also limited in their SCORM 2004 support. If going with SCORM, definitely try to get SCORM 1.2 working first.
Your settings look good to me. Maybe can't hurt to try 'points' but I'm not so sure that would work.
So you're ONLY seeing 'Completed/Incomplete' not 'passed/failed' as you'd prefer?
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I have created a quiz in a standalone format (.exe). But the
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reporting itself is fundamentally flawed, so that could be part of
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User Access Only
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Slide views only
How does Captivate knows if a slide has been viewed or not --
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simulation slides then exits the course, they fail. I was expecting
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course. I was expecting similar behavior but didn't find this true.
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Hello Cat,
Welcome to our community. This sounds like the Windows registry has either become corrupt or has an incorrect permission. If you are using Windows XP then you might want to take a look at the following blog post
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If you are using Windows Vista then I would suggest that you contact Adobe using the Adobe Captivate Feature Request/Bug Report Form
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Captivate 6 not picking up NeoSpeech voices

I followed the instrctions to download Neospeech voices and performed the install and it reported success but Captivate only shows Microsoft Anna.
I can see voices Bridget, Chloe, Julie, Kate and Paul are in folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 6 (32 Bit)\VT so how do I get Captivate to link them?
Thanks

Hi Vikram,
Thanks for this and yes that worked.
Thanks,
Jim
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:10:28 -0600
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Hello, Welcome to Adobe Forums. As per you notes, it seems you have Windows 7 If you don't have any specfiic settings or Configuration for you projects, then follow these steps : 1) Close Adobe Captivate 62) Go to this location : C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Local\Adobe3) Rename "Captivate 6.0" folder to "1234"4) Launch Adobe Captivate 6 and check do you see all the voices under Speech Management. Thanks,Vikram
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