Comments on: Using Advanced actions to store and show a users answers in a quiz

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:37:00 +0000

@ Andy – Great that you worked it out and thank you for posting the solution. Hopefully others can benefit from it as well. And yes I had a great vacation but it’s also nice to be back home again ;o)

@Ron – I’m not sure that you will be able to do this without some major external programming (Flash). I would think that it could be achieved with a widget that can access slide objects, but in all honesty I’m not a 100% sure because I don’t know how Captivate names/ID’s random questions.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:24:06 +0000

Great discussion and thanks for the tutorial. I’m also interested in capturing the question name and correct answer from the quiz. The wrinkle I have is that I am using random slides as well. It looks like I need to dig into the quiz pool to find the current question but I’m not sure if this is possible. Is there a way to store the selected question in a user variable?

Thanks!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:32:18 +0000

Oops, saw you were on vacation. I wanted to report that I figured out a workaround. Instead of using cpQuizInfoAnswerChoice, I used cpQuizInfoLastSlidePointScored and then built the Check If action around the score.

I set the question to be worth 1 point. If they answer correctly, and cpQuizInfoLastSlidePointScored > 0, I show caption question1_correct. If they answer incorrectly, cpQuizInfoLastSlidePointScored = 0, and I show caption question1_incorrect.

Hope you had a good vacation.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:01:48 +0000

Great tutorial Michael, thank you.

I’ve been messing with this all day and can’t get it to work for some types of questions.

Any ideas how to pass along the cpQuizInfoAnswerChoice variable for hot spot questions?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:08:55 +0000

That should be possible Christina. Basically just have a variable that increments with 1 every time the correct option is selected in your course. You would then also need an action that counts the number of points and assign a new variable with the value “passed” or “failed”.

The “quiz summary” could be a standard text caption with the varialble name and some static text – e.g. “Quiz results $$yourVar$$/3 $$varStatus$$”

/Michael

By: christina jacky

christina jacky — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:02:44 +0000

This was great, but I already have variables throughout the tutorial that have stored responses in them. What I would like to do is to NOT ask any questions, but have those variable pass as an answer at the end anyway.

For example:

If variable1 = 1
variable2 = 1
variable3= 1 (these numbers are assigned as they select certain items during the tutorial)

at the end, I just want a summary slide of quiz results that auto pass those without having to write a question.

Meaning: Quiz Results 3/3 you passed.

Is this possible?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:44:19 +0000

Hi CAdeveloper,

As far as I know there is no specific variable for that purpose. However, you could create a user defined variable and then assign whatever value you want to it on each quiz question slide. That way you would be able to define the question number.

/Michael

By: CAdeveloper

CAdeveloper — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:05:21 +0000

Hi,
I am working on a projectn which requires captivate quiz scores to be emailed and saved in database. I am able to do both. One recent addition to this has been the question and chosen answer also need to be added to email. I saw captivate has a system variable that holds the current chosen answer. How do I get the corresponding quiz questions.?

Thanks

By: admin

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:41:59 +0000

Hi Mike,

The scripting language used is Adobe Captivates own language. It’s pretty straightforward so the way to learn it is by trial and error.

I have never seen any official documentation on this.

/Michael

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:08:23 +0000

In the “Using Advanced Actions to Store and Show a Users Answers in a Quiz…” there is an Actions Dialog box with a scripting language being used.

Question, what is that language and is there any documentation on that language so I may learn it?

Please respond to dr.mjthomas@att.net
as I may not return to this group again.

Thanks for your help.