Sharing Question Pools

Is it possilbe to create a Captivate project with multiple
question pools and then share those pools with other Captivate
projects (without importing)? Thus far I have only been able to use
question pools within a single Captivate project. I am mainly
looking to keep my file size down and thought external question
pools might help.
Darin

a.c.b.,
From what I have been able to find out, all question pools are external files which are accessed by the main captivate file. Since you are able to spread out the questions throughout a given project, you could break the project up into three parts and then have questions in each part. The final grade would be tallied at the end of the project for you to email. If you hvae three separate projects, I don't believe you can maintain a running score among the three.
dcmediaman

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Thanks for the quick response ...
I had already tried deleting the review slide itself, though Captivate wouldn't let me - it just hid it. I tried again using the method you recommended but the slide remained in the filmstrip, so I tried deleting again, then re-added it from the Quiz Settings page ... no joy, same behavior as before.
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I am having difficulty figuring out how to implement our resource management process. Currently we have one "Resource Pool" project that has all the shared resources. It is connected to both a "master portfolio" plan that has some task
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Mark,
Yeah, I think there is a better way. Having a linked structure the contains both a pool file and a dynamic master is tenuous enough (i.e. prone to corruption), but if you start disconnecting from the pool and and messing with the master, you will most certainly
invite trouble.
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How to make a question pool with MANY questions?

I would like to make a question pool
with several thousand questions, which I currently have in an
Excel file. Is there a way around having manually to enter all
questions in a Captivate question pool?
Thanks.

I would use the XML function from Captivate 4.
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the question pool and then add a random slide to the project the
question is cut off by the size of the project. I think I was in a
project that was 1024x768 when I created the questions but when I
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off. I just thought the text would wrap and the answers would just
move down but this is not happening.
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Welcome to our community, IDWT
Have you tried opening just one of the questions for editing
in the smaller project?
Sometimes that is all that is needed with some applications.
You may find that the elements pop into the viewable area if you do
that.
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should be lost by trying to see.
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Yes, I have a few threads going... I'm having a lot of problems!
The other thread that Rod is helping me with is related to a different issue.... although it's still quiz-related.
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I will do what you suggest... if you have any other ideas, I would surely welcome those as well!!
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Quiz slide not advance when using question pools and advance answer options?

Hi,
I am using CP 5.5. I created a small test where I have just 2 question in a question pool. The questions are using the advanced answer options to show some specific feedback. When I insert the questions in to the project using a random question slide, after the user answers where you should be able to press Y or click to move on, I click, but nothing happens. You can't get off the quiz slide. The quiz slides work fine when they are inserted in the project as reqular quiz slides, but not when they are being pulled from a question pool.
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I was having the same problem on the last Random Question slide (total 10 RQ slides), and was able to fix it by following the next steps:
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I can finally finish this project.
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Captivate 4 Question Pool Slides Show Ghosts

Random question slides display captions from previous slides
when I publish to Flash 8-10. Publishing to Flash 7 or using the
same questions (but not as random questions) cures the problem.
The captions appear on all but one random question slide (8
of 10 doesn't display the problem). The captions are from four
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problematic question slides show all the rollover captions,
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running the same published show.
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question slides, recreating the random question slides,
uninstalling and reinstalling Flash on the target PC with the same
results.
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I previewed the whole project (F4) and still the transition did not work.
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Captivate 3). This year we want to apply Captivate 3's "Question
Pool random questions" to this course. Is there a way to create the
question pool(s) in this existing quiz, and then add last year's
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that, switch to Storyboard view. Select the question slides you
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Branch aware should be just fine for that case, why do you tell it is not working? Branch Aware Quiz - Captivate blog
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