July 30, 2011

Excluding Knowledge Check Questions when Reviewing/Retaking the Quiz

I got an interesting suggestion by Jeff, a Captivate user, on my last week’s blog post. Here’s how it goes…

Thank you Jeff for the suggestion. :)

Here’s the resolution for this issue. I have created a course with six content screens, two knowledge check questions and two quiz questions for this demonstration. By default, any question slide will appear when you retake/review the quiz. Our task is to restrict the knowledge check questions from appearing during the Quiz Review/Retake. Here’s how it should function:

Cool! Isn’t it? You can use Advanced Actions to accomplish this. The logic that we need to use is that if the learner reaches the Quiz Results slide and then goes back to the Knowledge Check 1 question, then the action should be set to Jump to the first question slide. You can do this easily by using a variable and then changing the value when the user reaches the results slide, and then checking this value on the Knowledge Check 1 question slide.

Here’s a demonstration to show you these steps:

Let me know if you found this post useful or have any questions about this workflow by leaving a comment on this post.

Happy Captivating! :)

Posted by poojajaisingh12:26 AM
  • Tim

    Very impressed with the potential of Advanced Actions. Q: Is there a way to reset the Question Pool. ie. in the above eg, how would you have a content slide(s), then a Q slide drawn randomly from a Q.pool and if answered incorrectly the participant is taken back to the relevant content slide and then back to the Q.slide with a different random Q appearing?

    • http://twitter.com/ashwinab Ashwin Bharghav B

      Hi Tim,

      Randomization logic for a quiz is got on page load. Hence it will not be possible to get a different question from the pool while trying to re-visit the question in the same session. But using the power of Advanced Actions you can jump to a different question slide if a particular question is incorrect.

      Thanks,
      Ashwin Bharghav B
      Adobe Captivate Team

  • http://twitter.com/Lilybiri Lieve Weymeis

    Pooja, may I offer some extra timesaving tips? Setting the score to 0 and excluding them from the total score for the Knowledge questions can be done for all those questions at once: just select them all in the Filmstrip and adjust the Quiz Properties, General and Reporting sections as you described. Secondly: it is not necessary to attribute a value to a variable when defining it if it is 0, just leave the value empty. Personally would also add Continue as Else action in the conditional action, although I know it is not always necessary; just ‘feels’ more complete and readable. And what if you want to enable both Reviewing and Retaking?

    • http://www.facebook.com/pooja.jaisingh Pooja Jaisingh

      Thanks for the tips Lieve.

  • http://twitter.com/Lilybiri Lieve Weymeis

    Sorry, think my comment was not really complete, when I asked about retaking: what if the user wants to retake also the knowledge questions?

    • http://www.facebook.com/pooja.jaisingh Pooja Jaisingh

      That’s automatically enabled. They will be allowed to retake/review the assessment if this workflow is not followed.

  • Reheaton90

    Brilliant! I have wanted to do this many times and couldn’t. Thank you!

  • Jeff

    Pooja,

    Thanks for answering my question so quickly and comprehensively. When I posted my comment we had already completed the project, however, we recently modified the project to add additional knowledge checks. We used your technique and it worked perfectly. Thanks again for your solution.

    • http://www.facebook.com/pooja.jaisingh Pooja Jaisingh

      You’re most welcome Jeff :)

  • Mike Buchanan

    Thanks very much. This was a great tip and covers “almost” all my problems. In the example you provided you only had 2 quiz questions but on the Results slide it showed 4 as it counted the Knowledge Check questions. How would I get it to only count the actual Quiz questions?

  • Contact

    this didnt work for me.. i am using version 6. does it work in that version?

    • Dr. Pooja Jaisingh

      Yes, this works with Captivate 6 as well. Please share the project with me at pjaising at adobe dot com and i’ll help you troubleshoot it.

  • Jay Fresno

    Would you mind posting the Captivate project? I am not able to follow exactly how to implement this process, and having the actual project so that I can examine which slides are quiz slides, which are pretest slides, and the settings for each slide and object, as well as any advanced actions, would be extremely helpful to me.

  • Judith Gingrich

    This was great! Thank you so much!

  • CMass

    Hello! What you’re describing here is exactly what I’m trying to do (to offer knowledge checks but not have them appear as part of the quiz). I’ve added the two functions you lay out here… but the course is still jumping back to the knowledge check. In the tutorial you have above, you have the “jump to” slide set to 10 of 10. I am assuming I should change that to the slide that has the first quiz question? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

    • http://twitter.com/poojajaisingh Dr. Pooja Jaisingh

      Yes Caroline, the action needs to be Jump to the first question slide.

  • FlapJack NI

    If i retake the CBT do the variables hold their value or do they go back to what they where declared as in the setup? Will it make a difference if i click Continue where i left off in the CBT to the Variables?

  • Ivan Hdez

    Nice solution thanks for sharing. One question, do you have to add the ExcludeKcAction to every single knowledge check you want to restrict from displaying in the Final Quiz?

  • Christophe

    Adding knowledge check questions in a course is such a basic requirement. Why can’t it be done easily in Captivate? Does Adobe use their own program, I sometimes wonder…

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