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In Captivate 4 several changes have been made to Quiz preferences so that content developers can choose the right option for their LMS. Captivate content has been tested against some of the popular LMS along with ADL Test suite to ensure standard compliance.

Here I would like to highlight some of the Quiz Reporting options one has to choose for tracking Captivate 4 SCORM compliant content.

• Report Status  -
• Complete/Incomplete – cmi.lesson_status will be set to Complete/Incomplete based on condition specified in Report Score.
• Pass/Fail – cmi.lesson_status will be set to Pass/Fail based on condition specified in Report Score.

Note – For SumTotal LMS use Complete/Incomplete status only.

• Report to LMS as –  

• Score – If a raw score has to be sent. Please note that the LMS you use should have the ability to understand raw score
• Percent – Choose this option to send the normalized score between 0 – 100. This is most preferred reporting option.
• Report Score –
• Quiz results only – In case the course needs to be evaluated based on Quiz results only. As soon as the user achieves the min required score set in Preferences -> Quiz -> Pass/Fail, cmi.lesson_status is set to Completed. Please note that even if there are few slides left, learner will still get the course completion message.
• Quiz results and slide views – Select this option if the course has to be evaluated based on the score and the slide view percentage.  Completion status is set only when both the conditions are met otherwise it will be set as Incomplete.

This solves the issue of completion message popping up even when some slides are still to be viewed.

• Slide views only – Completion status is set based on slide views percentage. This option is better suited for courses that contain Demo and training content, where the user is required to view the necessary content.
• Template – this is a new option added in Captivate 4. You can choose either a Default template or a Custom template incase you are customizing the template. The templates can be found at <Installed directory> Adobe Captivate 4Template PublishSCORM folder.

Incase you have a new template, just copy it to the above mentioned location and you can see template name appearing in Template dropdown in Quiz Preferences -> Reporting.

 

Below is the Quiz preferences dialog –

 

Now let’s look at other new features in Cp4 for Quizzing/LMS –

• Publishing Course structure files for AICC – When publishing content for AICC standard, captivate creates the course structure files i.e. captivate.au, captivate.crs, captivate.cst, captivate.des.
• Optimize suspend_data – SCORM 1.2 has a limit of 4000 characters for suspend_data. There were instances of resume not working properly in case of large projects containing more Multiple Choice questions. We have optimized suspend_data and reduced the frequency of this resume issue.
•  Retake Button – Incase of multiple attempts for the Quiz, you can now choose to show a ‘Retake’ button in the Results slide. Incase the user fails the Quiz, this button will be shown that will allow students to take the Quiz again. To set this option, choose Quiz -> Preferences -> Pass/Fail
• Passing user variables as part of suspend_data – A nice feature that allows you to customize your Quiz for the learner. You can accept the name of the user in a text entry box and store it in a user variable. The user variable automatically along with its value will be sent as part of cmi.suspend_data  to the LMS. On resuming the Quiz, the variable and its value will be persistent.  No special setting is required for this.

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