Quizzing in Captivate 5

Hi Renee, There’s a short video here that introduces some information about contextual feedback. Which may solve part of your problem.

Now any quiz can be setup to allow the learner to retake a given question as many times as you like. You’ll control that from the quiz properties tab while you are on the quiz slide in question. This is a viable alternative to the method described in the video if you don’t mind providing ‘universal’ feedback for wrong answers – but that feedback can be set to adjust for sequential failures. (For example first failed attempt: Are you certain that the sky isn’t a cooler color? – Second failed attempt: Maybe the sky color starts with the letter B. Third failed attempt: I think the sky might be BLUE.) You can accomplish that sort of thing simply by setting the number of attempts (3 in this example) and set the failure level to match (also 3). That would cause Captivate to create 3 failure feedback captions (you’ll note their names correlate to the failure levels) that you can then put any text in that you want (you can also decorate them any way you like.)

Now you can set the success and failure actions to handle your needed branching. Set the success action to go to next slide if you just want to move on, or set it to jump to slide if you want to go to slide n when the answer is correct. If you want to take them to some kind of retraining upon failure to complete, then set the last attempt or failure action to go to slide n in the event of total failure to answer the question. (Tip: don’t jump outside the quiz range – its best to put the quiz jump to slides between questions and keep moving through questions in sequence.)

Hope that helps — Allen

Renee, I’m checking for you – but this looks like a designed limitation to me. If you look at a normal caption (via the property inspector) you’ll find that it’s transition properties for fade include the ability to set the fade in and fade out times. In fact you can design a style that has an extended fade time and save that with a unique name. However, when you apply that style to the feedback component(s) they ignore the fade property. Likewise feedback styles have no property setting for transition. Clearly they lock to no transition and do not deviate when used for feedback.

That suggests to me that the fade is being deliberately ignored in the context of feedback. I can understand why that would be best because if they didn’t the interactions / appearance of responses, like correct, and incorrect answers, could easily seem sluggish or unresponsive (esp. if the author didn’t understand that a given feedback caption was ‘fading’ because of a transition property that they had set for some other purpose.)

I’m sending a note to QA, but I’m guessing they’ll tell me this is “by design.” IOW the expectation is probably that when giving such feedback the creator would always want the feedback to popup immediately when the submit button is pressed. Can you tell me your use case? For example, describe why you want the delayed fade in this context? Or are you just trying to understand the fade timing properties and stumbled upon this exception along the way?

Pat, is the caption background on the Advanced answer box set to a non-transparent background? Is the caption on the layer above the other in the timeline? Can you elaborate? You might find it useful to disable visibility while you work on layers that are overlapping. Is this problem happening for you while the project is playing back, or only happening while editing the text?

Last thought… have you cleared your cache?

Gloria, Captivate takes care of that for you. It doesn’t pull duplicates.