Captivate Multiple Choice Question Where the Number of Answers Determines Success

In this video tutorial, I show you a solution When you need a multiple choice question where the number of answers is what determines success. YouTube members can download the project file for this tutorial.

Submit All with Only One Submit Button in Your Captivate Quiz

In this video tutorial, I got a message from Anjalli Pawar about disabling the Submit All on the majority of slides. Not a complicated solution but I think this accomplishes what Anjalli was looking. At least I hope so. In either case, feel free to use this approach to have only one final submit button at the end of your quiz but still can move about the exam freely.

Submit All Improvements in Adobe Captivate

Sometimes Adobe will improve features in new versions of Adobe Captivate without listing them as a feature improvement. To my surprise, this was the case in Captivate 2017 with the submit all feature. Because I don't always use the submit all feature, I was unaware of this improvement covered in the video tutorial until now with Captivate 2019!

More Than One Fill-In-The-Blank

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can set up a fill-in-the-blank question to contain more than one blank. I also show you how you can convert a fill-in-the-blank to use a drop-down list instead of the blank. 

Adobe Captivate - Partial Points & Penalties

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can apply partial points as well as penalties for individual answers in your multiple response multiple choice questions.

Adobe Captivate - Final Quiz Question Remediation

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can set up remediation for your final quiz questions. Remediation in eLearning is when a learner has exhausted their attempts they will be returned to the portion of the training where this knowledge of skill was originally taught. Once they've gained the knowledge they will have the opportunity to return to that spot in the quiz, make another attempt, and hopefully be successful.

Adobe Captivate 2017 - Importing GIFT Files into Your Quiz

In this video, I will show you how to create a GIFT format file to import your quiz questions with great ease and reduced time. In addition, tune in until the end of the video to learn about a tool that can help you out.

DOWNLOAD SWIFT QUIZ MAKER HERE:
http://swiftquizmaker.eu/

Other Ways of Doing Things

I recently was helping a client work on their Adobe Captivate eLearning project and she had a sequence question. I honestly can’t tell you the last time I used a sequence question. I believe the first time I attempted to use one I just felt that the user experience was so poor that I quickly figured out alternative ways to accomplish the same thing. Here is one of them.

When I first figured out how to add drag and drop questions to an Adobe Captivate project it was using the Drag and Drop widget by INFOsemantics. I no longer use the widget as Captivate now has drag and drop built in and the INFOsemantics widget will not publish to HTML5. Still, it served its purpose for me for many years.

Here is how I do sequence questions now...

On an unrelated note, INFOsemantics has been in the Captivate news recently with their CPExtra widget. I asked owner Rod Ward for a trial copy so I could review it on my YouTube channel. He didn't reply to my request so I have not created such a video. He seems to be getting testimonials from happy customers so I it seems that he and his son Tristan are on to something. I’ve watched several of the videos they have put together on the widget and I have to say I’m not entirely sure what problems this widget solves for me. I just don’t really understand what this thing does.

At present I’m very happy with all the capabilities of Adobe Captivate in version 9.0.1 and I suspect that the days of widgets are probably soon to be over.

Simulate Real Feedback in eLearning

Of course there is no way to truly recreate what it's like for a student to interact with an instructor but one way you can come close to this in eLearning is to provide specific feedback that is unique for each answer selected. Watch this video to see how this can be done.

Adobe Captivate - Custom Messages for Quiz Reviews

I'm not sure some of the requests that I get to produce YouTube videos make a lot of sense. I recently got a request to have customized messages on each quiz question during the quiz reviews. While this is entirely possible as you can see from the video I created below, I'm not sure it's necessary nor would you necessarily want it.

Of course my assumption is that you are designing eLearning for an adult employee type audience. I honestly have no idea how each subscriber to my channel uses Captivate, but that is essentially what I use it for. I think it's important that we remember that we are not trying to trick our learners into selected the wrong answer, anymore than we should not be giving the answers away. Remember that the purpose of an evaluation at the end or during training is to test if our learners are ready to perform these taught tasks on their own. For example, If I'm testing an employee's ability to react to an emergency situation, I want them to synthesize, based on what I taught them in the course, what the correct behaviour should be. They should have to rely on hints from an instructor who isn't with them on the work site.

Here is the video that shows you how you can provide custom messages during a quiz review in Adobe Captivate.