Auto submit on quiz timeout implementation
I have created a random quiz using question pool. I have used timer widget for timing the quiz. My requirement for the quiz is that the user should not be able to go back to the quiz once he is timed out and should do an auto submit even if he fails to click submit all. Looking for a quick, simple solution on how I can implement this. It would be great if its not too much of coding as I am pretty new to Adobe Captivate and need to urgently implement this.
Sadly, the question was not answered and I, too, am in need of the timer (hourglass widget) to auto submit all once time is up. The user should not be able to navigate once time is up, and all answers should be submitted and the quiz stopped. When I only have the “submit” button, there seems to be a lot more navigation issues – I cannot go back to a previous question, clear my answer, and/or change my answer. I want the user to be able to do that, and the only way I’ve found is by using the “Submit All” option. Again, the question to be answered is how to make the timer widget submit all once it’s timed out.
I warned about lot of drawbacks when using Submit All. Personally I have explored a lot of situations and concluded that I will avoid it whenever possible.
The timer/hourglass interaction allow you to navigate to another screen. However Auto Submit is certainly not in the functionality of the interaction(s) nor packaged with Captivate. Since not even the JS experts have popped in, I suppose this is not possible with JS neither.
My approach would be to navigate them with those interactions to a last quiz slide where you point out to the learner that they now need to press Submit All because time is up. You can add a very low score to that quiz slide (maybe a T/F with 1pt score).
You may have seen that I have a lot of articles about quizzing. Submit All is indeed the only way to allow the learner to navigate through quiz slides, and edit answers. It has also a lot of drawbacks, if something happens with the connection, learner loses all answers. I was enthusiastic when this feature appeared many years ago, and have explored it for a while. But personally I decided never to use it, except for very short quizzes. In all other situations I will respect the normal quiz design, allow multiple attempts both on question and quiz level.
I have been using the timer widget in several situations, also with random questions. However I would never do this with the Submit All feature activated. Is this really necessary?
Thanks for answering Lieve. So what do you suggest? Should I do a submit for all the slides?
Submit all is necessary to give enough time to the users to answer the quiz, so that they can go back and review until time is out.
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