Multiple Quizzes with multiple results (in Captivate 6)

Hi there,

Adobe Captivate has a new feature of adding pre-test quiz.

Please check the tutorial from Dr. Pooja Jaisingh on the same : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39GwWqjDz4Q&feature=share

If you need any help on this, please let me know.

Thanks

HI George (?)

The score slide that is inserted at the end will only display the score and other information about the graded quiz, not about the pretest.

I should do more exploring, but until now if I want to show/see the score/percentage acquired in the pretest, I construct a 'score' slide myself. There are new system quizzing variables cpQuizInfoPretestPointsscored and cpQuizInfoPretestScorePercentage.  Those can be used to display the result. There is however, AFAIK no system variable that offers you the number of Pretest questions (I calculate them using a user variable).

Do not know if this will help you,

Lilybiri

Hi Lilybiri,

Am I right in assuming that cpQuizInfoPretestPointsscored is a variable that contains the total score for the pretest? If so, is it possible to use the variable cpQuizInfoPretestPointsscored, and have it fed back to the LMS, alongside the graded quiz?

Could you also advise how you construct your own score slide using these variables? I'm really interested in knowing how to do this?

Many thanks!

Hello,

I'm still busy exploring every changed feature for Quiz, so do not expect a complete answer yet. Will certainly blog about it.

Yes, those system variables do store the result for the pretest, and are used for the Pretest action (that is where I want to do more exploration).

I'm not sure those variables are passed automatically to the LMS, suppose not.. but have to check.

Some other variables are populated as well by pretest questions, one of them is cpInfoAnswerChoice, can be interesting as well. But again, give me some more time. Have been overwhelmed by work these last weeks.

Lilybiri

Ok, great! Thank you - look forward to hearing from you.

Per the SCORM standard, each lesson can only have one overall 'score'.

You could possibly theoretically send the results of the Pretest as 'interaction data' to the LMS for later reporting, but I don't think CP supports that (I too have more testing to do with CP6).

But as to the final score, even if the Pretest option in CP6 allows it so be sent back to the LMS, it would later be overwritten by the final quiz score as there's only one 'spot' per lesson in the LMS to store a lesson score...

Thanks for that Erik - I don't know enough about scorm yet and that was interesting to know. I have seen an option in captivate for interaction data, I have it ticked but not sure what it does yet. Will post back if I manage to make any progress with it.

Any updates on this? Is the final answer: The final test score will always overwrite the pre-test score. Meaning.... there is no way to compare the two scores in either Captivate or LMS?

I've still not tested the pre-test feature in CP6 myself, so I'm not sure how it's tracked. Regardless, SCORM only allows one 'score' so even if the pre-test does track as 'the score' to the LMS, anything subsequent that also records as 'the score' is going to overwrite it.

Now if Captivate is wise enough to track a pre-test to, say, interaction data - then you may be able to report on the lesson's interaction data to see the pre-test score, then compare to the post-test ('the score')...but no matter the tool, there's till only one cmi.score value possible per SCO.

Erik

Per the SCORM standard, each lesson can only have one overall 'score'.

I feel like I have a fundemental misunderstanding of the way captivate expects me to make a course.

I would think all the slides in a project constitutes a course, and each slide constitutes a lesson. Should courses be made up of multiple projects, and each project be thought of as a single lesson?

Sorry for way-late reply...

It's really more how your LMS handles 'courses' and the terminology it uses.

Essentially, most often, a 'SCORM Package' (SCO) is a 'course'. I'd rather call each SCO a 'lesson' as, to me, 'courses' should be setup in the LMS with a series of 'Lessons'.

Regardless of the terminology, each 'SCO' is launched by the LMS and one score can be recorded for it via SCORM.

So if you need multiple final scores recorded, each of those final scores need to be in their own SCO.

A common approach is a Pre-Test SCO (or 'lesson', or 'course', whatever term), a 'Content' SCO perhaps with some interspersed scored interactions, and a Post-Test SCO...all three merged together as a 'course' (or whatever term) within the LMS.

That said, as said, it really all depends on how your LMS handles various SCOs...

Clear as mud?
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