Set up question slides

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Are you perhaps using a dropdown list as the input method for the Fill In the Blanks question? If so, make sure you have selected at least one of the answers as a correct answer. Otherwise you won't have specified any correct answer and so therefore the question will always be marked as incorrect.

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Is there ANY way to have a static widget over the top of a question slide?

I have a popup reference widget that I made and put it in a master slide and set it to ply on top, BUT if I add it to a question slide, the text from the question shows over it.
Any way to have a widget always be on the absolute top?
Click on the MSDS tab at bottom reveals popup, but the question text appears over the widget even though it is in a master slide set to shop on top.
Ideas?

Once your widget is on the slide, it has complete control over the display tree. So what you can do is to move up the parent hierarchy until you find the slide (parent.parent.parent) and then re-parent yourselft or you popup window on top of the hierarchy by just calling addChild(). That works well for the static widgets. You just need to deal with the position being different on the slide so you'll have to juggle with localToGlobal() and globalToLocal().
Whyves
www.flash-factor.com

Is that possible to report score from a selected set of questions in a quiz?

Hi I am new to Captivate and SCORM. I've been reading the forum discussions and Lilybirl's blog, and learned a lot in the past few days. I wish someone could help me with this too:
We hope to design a course within a single captivate project which allows the following functions:
There are several pre-tests and one post-test. The scores from each pre-tests will be used for branching purpose. See, if one takes pre-test 1 and passes, then she will go to lecture 2; otherwise goes back to lecture 1; if one takes pre-test 2 and then passes, then she will go to lecture 3; otherwise go back to lecture 2; same for pre-test 3, 4, 5, .... Now I know that I can use a customized variable to realize this part. I can create a user varaible as pretest_score, and set it as 0 at the beginning of each pre-test; let it do the math everything the learner answers a question slide. Then at the end of each pre-test, jump based on the value of the pretest_score. Then for the post-test, the pretest_score will be set as 0 again, and the culculation will start from 0. It will also generate a customized report page to report scores on each pre-test and also on the post-test.
However, we wish to be able to pass only the final score on the post-test to the LMS. Since I read that most of quiz variables are read only. Is there any way I can get around this? Is there something in the SCORM package that I can change to the variable that I created so that I can pass this variable's value to the LMS?
Any suggestions would be very helpful.
Thank you very much.

Hi,
I do not describe it in the blog posts, but you could also set the scores of the pretest question slides to 0, and track those scores only with a user variable and advanced actions. That way the total score will have only the scores of the final test, where you attach score to those question slides. Only one annoying thing: the total number of questions will have all the questions included, same with the number used in the progress indicator. You'll have to avoid showing those numbers to the user, but if you can live with that, could be easier than to create custom question slides.
Lilybiri

Rewind swfs with played question slides

I have a custom Flash player that loads and plays Captivate
swf files. When the player loads a Captivate-generated swf that is
a "question slide", the player is unable to rewind the swf after
the question has been answered. These question slides are limited
to a certain number of attempts. My question is, is there a way,
even when attempts are set to a fixed number, to have my player
rewind the swf after the question has been answered? Is there some
mechanism in the Captivate swf preventing this?

More info: if I place a blank slide before and after the
question slide, and republish, the player will play the first blank
slide, skip the question slide, and play the second blank slide.
There is some property in the question slide that prevents it from
being played or rewound once answered.
Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!

Going back in tutorial renders unanswered question slides void

Hi, I have looked through the last few months of questions and don't see exactly my issue.
I have a Captivate 4 project that is linear and has questions (no scores reported to LMS) throughout to reinforce learning.
When a learner gets to a quiz item in the series and wants to jump back to an earlier content slide (using TOC or back arrow on Nav bar--I don't have back arrow on Question slide itself.) they can't return to the question and take it. The question appears to be locked up and they get the error message below. This is a question they never tried.
I don't put a back button on the question because I don't like to encourage that, but I do have on the Quiz settings to "Allow backward movement". If that will fix the problem, then I'll add that button. Just wondering if there is another setting I can change.
The question settings are:

Yes, I had to do something, so I changed the number of attempts to unlimited. That did fix the problem. Guess if we aren't scoring the items, we need them guess as many times as they like. This automatically resets the question for reentry from anyplace.
Thanks.

Random question slide not shown when FP 8 or FP 9 output

Hi everyone
I've just begun to use Captivate a month ago, so it is not
that much experience I can contribute with by now.
One thing I have recognized is that I get some problems with
random questions slides made from different question pools when
using Flash Player 8 or 9 in the output otions.
When using Flash Player 7 everything works as supposed: one
random question is shown for every random question slide using one
distinct question pool for each random question slide.
When using one of the two others some of my random question
slides are not shown. There are slides that are played - meaning
that the player shows an empty slide for the time of 3 seconds -
but the content is not shown. This happens only for some of the
random question slides, and those are the same question slides each
time, I publish - but when working or dragging around with the
random question slides and publish again, the problem would come
with some other random question slides, not positioned the same
place as before, but showing the same problem in each published
version.
As written before each question pool is only used once. The
different question slides used in the question pools are all
duplicates, naturally with adjusted content.
Does anyone has experienced something like that before? Could
there be any other trouble with the content when using Flash Player
7 in the output options, like quiz not playing in newly updated
Flash Players ore something like that? Anything?
I appreciate your suggestions or comments! Thanks in advance
and kind regards,
Lars

Some more info - and a working solution...
I have worked on this topic a bit more - and found out, that
I have a problem with output option set to Flash Player 7, too.
When I delete every other navigation option than the "next
question" (what is it called in english?) button, I get this
problem:
The quiz now "freezes" randomly, not every time, but again
and again. The quiz has both random slides from question pools and
simple question slides.
I have found out, that putting the simple question slides
into question pools and then showing a random slide from those
question pools fixes the problem.
Has anyone experienced problems like that? Other solutions?
Kind regards
Lars
Maybe someone has a similar problem.

On Exit action possible on a question slide?

I'm using Captivate 6. My project has branching that occurs "on success" for some question slides, but if the user skips the question (which is allowed in this case) the branching doesn't happen. On a regular slide there is an On Exit option to initiate branching, but that dropdown is greyed out on my question slide. How can I initiate branching on a question slide if the question is skipped?
Thanks,
Glenn
p.s. My first thought just now was to insert a regular slide immediately after the question slide with On Exit set on that slide to branch immediately to the correct location. However, that adds an extra slide and maybe there's a better way?
Message was edited by: GPillsbury1

Hello,
On Exit action has never been possible for question slides. Reason is that when the user has accomplished the two-step process for asnwering a question (1. Submit, 2. Click on slide or Press Y) the actions defined On Succes/Last Attempt for that question will be executed. That is embedded in the question slides. This is of course not the case for other slides. But even there On Exit events must be handled with care because they will only be done if the last frame of the slide is visited.
Lilybiri

Question slide not advancing on click to continue

I have only one question slide out of 6 and it is a
true/false question. When answered the user clicks submit and the
correct success caption appears and it indicates click anywhere to
continue. The slide doesn't continue when you click on the slide.
When you click the success caption disappears but then you have to
click submit again, the success caption appears, you click anywere
and then the slide continues. I have this slide set the same way as
other true/false slides but it does not function the same way. Why
is it doing this?
Heidi at AWCorp

Hi,
Please try it by changing the 'on correct answer' setting to 'jump to next slide'.
Thanks

Audio on Question Slide

Hi,
I am building a program where the participant listens to a
conversation and then has to answer questions about what he/she
heard. I would like to add a button to the question slide called
"hear it again" where they would click on it (or rollover) to hear
the audio track again. In a regular slide I would add a Button but
that option is blanked out on the question slide. Anything else
such as a caption, automatically plays the sound track.
Help! Anyone have any ideas about this?
Thanx in advance!
Gary

Hi again
No, you aren't doing anything wrong. That's the way rollover
Images and Captions work. They don't display until your user mouses
over the rollover area. You asked for something that could be
clicked or rolled over to hear the audio track. Since clickable
items are a no no in Question slides, the rollover is your best
bet.
Note that you don't need any Image or Caption to actually
appear if you don't want that. Just use an image that's a solid
color and set it as transparent. Or, for a caption, set the caption
as transparent with no actual text. The key is assigning the audio
to the Image or Caption itself and not the rollover area.
Cheers... Rick

Presenter 8 -- need help with proper settings to allow quiz retake (with a NEW set of questions from a random pool)

We are publishing a Presenter 8 quiz to an LMS in a SCORM format. I am having trouble with the following: the quiz is built with multiple question groups, and a limited number of questions are being selected from each group. E.g. we have 80+ questions in total, and 25 are presented to a user on a given attempt.
When a user fails the quiz and exits the quiz normally, we want them to study and try again. I set the quiz settings to allow infinite attempts, and set the LMS settings to make sure the quiz is not presented in "review mode". When I test this quiz by failing it the first time, when I reenter the quiz, I am taken to the last slide in the quiz (which is the last one I viewed), and I can retake the quiz by navigating back to the first question.
Here's the problem: I am presented with the SAME set of questions, rather than a NEW set of random questions. This will facilitate cheating (all a user has to do is take the quiz once, review the answers, and then take it again to pass it).
How do I insure that the user is presented with a NEW set of questions when I retake the quiz?
I am open to upgrading to Adobe Presenter 10, but would rather not have to do so. There must be some setting I'm missing.
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Question slides do not publish

I have 18 questions and about 250 slides.
The previous slide does not "go to next slide" when the next
slide is a question slide. They do not show up in my flash output.
So I tried to force it by choosing "jump to slide" and
selecting the next slide number. My question 1 shows up, but none
or many of the others don't. I notice some of them skip over to the
following slide. I have the navigation in the question slides set
to jump back to the beginning.
Is there a setting somewhere that I am missing??? Thanks for
help!

Are you using the Question Pool or are they individual
slides? If you are using a Question Pool is it tied to a
slide?

Blank boxes when I insert question slides.

I posted this yesterday and no one replied... Hopefully
someone can give me some advice. Thanks!!
I am trying to create a new project in CP3 and once I publish
the project, there are 2 blank boxes on each slide and the movie
stops on the second slide. These projects consist of 8 PPT slides,
7 image slides, and 5 questions slides... and this project is
narrated. I have tried creating the project again hoping the blank
boxes would go away and that didn't work. So I published this
module one slide at a time to try and determine the root of the
problem. I can publish all 15 slides of images and PPT as a SWF
file with no problem. But once I insert question slides, that's
when the blank boxes appear and the module stops on slide 2. I
think this is odd considering my question slides are the last 5
slides of the module but the blank boxes start on slide one. When
previewing each slide, each 5 slides, or the entire project, there
are no problems. It's just once I publish the project. I've tried
publishing to SWF file and a stand alone disc.. same problem. I
also tried bringing up a module I had done before on CP1 and
converted the files, made no changes to the project and just
published it with CP3 as SWF file. I got the blank boxes and the
project stopped at the second slide. The question slides I have are
simple T/F or multiple choice slides and I don't have them set up
to record results.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I've published about 25 of
these modules in CP1 and never had this problem in the past. I
would be happy to send someone an example of what I'm talking
about.
Thanks!
Mindy Wilson
Training Coordinator
TALX Corp

Thanks for responding. No, I don't have any interaction on
the project. I even tried to create a new project and inserted 2
PPT slides (with text only) and then one question slide... I just
made up a simple T/F question just to have a question slide in that
project and once I published it, it happened again. If I deleted
that question slide and published, the blank boxes were gone and it
didn't freeze up.
I was on the phone all morning with Adobe support and they
suggest I reinstall the software. All software disks for my company
are located at home office so once I receive the software tomorrow,
I'll try it again. If that doesn't work, I'll certainly appreciate
any help.
Thanks!

Captivate 8: How to add a button onto a question slide to invoke some java script?

I have some question slides where the user has to guess an item on a picture. Because the picture is very small, I want to add a zoom button which calls a function in my LMS to popup the picture in a bigger window. I could not find a way to add a button where I can call java script, so I tried to solve this by using a smart shape with option "use as button" set and adding the java script action. This works fine for the popup but now the submit button on the slide no longer works. Clicking the submit button just disables the answers and stays on the current slide even if I did not click onto the shape button previously. How can I achieve my goal to display a bigger picture of an image on my slide on the users request?
I also tried the "ImageView" widget, but this is not a practicable solution.
Thanks,
Martin

I think I found the solution: In the "Timing" tab for the shape there is an option "Pause After" which was set to 1,5 seconds. I cleared this options and now the submit button is working again.
Martin

Why My Quiz Status Completion Status Slide Does not Move on to the pre-set Success/Fail slide

Hi,
I set the Pass or Fail status in the Quiz Preferences as below: If passed, it should jump to Slide 8; if failed, go to Slide 9 (image #1)
But when I am running and testing the file (F4), it will stop at the Assessment Completion Status screen (Image #2) and never jump to the pre-defined slide. Does anybody know why? Thanks!
Image #1:
Image #2:
Melissa

This happens so often, users are deleting embedded objects on Question or Score slides. Embedded objects have no visible timeline. Some of them can be turned off using checkboxes (like Back, Next buttons on question slides), others disappear automatically (Submit during review, Retake when Quiz attempts are exhausted) but deleting them manually is always a bad idea. And Continue button on the Score slide is as important as the Submit button on Question slides. Those are the buttons that trigger the actions linked to those slides: Success/Last Attempt actions for the Question Slides, and the Passing/Failing grade actions for the Score slide. This is just a bit more in details what Rod told you, not another answer at all.
Question Question Slides in Captivate - Captivate blog
Question Question Slides - Part 2 - Captivate blog
Those articles describe functionality and tweaking possibilities. They were written for an older versions, but are still valid.
If you want to skip the Continue button, it is possible to create a conditional advanced action that uses the value of the system variable cpQuizInfoPassFail to choose a jump to the appropriate slide.

Adobe Captivate 5 - Quiz stopping after leaving question slide to go backwards

I'm trying to force Captivate to do something I think it wasn't designed to do - Force the user to get 100% on a quiz. I've set the attempts to 'infinite' and customized the retry messages with little bits of information for the user. Currently, they can try the question as many times as they want until they get it correct but they cannot leave the slide even though there is a 'back' button available! I need them to be able to leave the question slide after attempting to answer the question, sort back through the information slides to learn the information, and return to the question slide to answer it correctly. The quiz stops entirely if you go backwards, then attempt to get back to the question slides.
Forcing them to retake the entire quiz is not an option as this will likely frustrate the user, especially as one of our presentations includes 100 questions. Even setting the failure levels to 3 is not good because eventually, someone will miss the question entirely and have to retake the quiz.
Any suggestions? Can this be done?
I have a short demo with all my settings if anyone wants to see it.

Hello,
Yep, you are bumping onto the limitations of the current default Quizzes. If you allow multiple attempts on Question level, the user will not be able to leave the slide without exhausting those attemps or having a correct answer. If you allow multiple attempts on Quiz level, the Retake button will delete all answers and the user has to redo the whole quiz.
The only way I found was by creating my own question slides. I even succeeded in making Quiz Retake function only for incorrect answers. This is however a lot of work and when I read the amount of questions you are providing...
Lilybiri

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