March 3, 2020
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March 3, 2020
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I am new to Captivate so excuse my ignorance. I want to now if it is possible to:

Use a snapshot of text, a spreadsheet, etc

Create hotspots for lack of a better term at particular words or blank spaces where students have to enter a calculated value or provide a response upon a provided instruction

Provide for multiple expected/anticipated responses to be entered in the provided spaces or associated with a particular word, with feedback to each entered response in the form of pop-ups(?)

My intention is to provide guidance/feedback to student attempts in subjects like math, computer science, financial accounting etc.

If what I want to create is possible to do with Captivate, please indicate how.

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2020-03-04 18:13:01
2020-03-04 18:13:01

BTW,  I have another old post, where I describe the main stumbling blocks for newbies in Captivate. They are totally different from what you will see in most training programmes. If you have time, have a read of:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/challenges-for-starters

BTW, like numbers, but dislike accountancy

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2020-03-04 18:09:44
2020-03-04 18:09:44

Great! I have been teaching in a university college for decades, now retired but a freelance trainer and consultant for Captivate. Coincidence: since a couple of months I have a trainee in South Africa. We communicate in English, but being Flemish I also understand Afrikaans and she understands Dutch. Globalisation!

I discovered Captivate about 15 years ago and it has enabled me to try out educational techniques with success (flipped class, problem-based and project-based learning including peer teaching etc). That is why I am such a passionate defender of Captivate, and a known ‘bug hunter’ as well.

For sure Captivate can help you to achieve your goal.. but it is a multi-featured application which results in needing some learning time.  Do you use a Learning Management System at this moment? Will post another link, but I need to update the example project for HTML5, it is still SWF output:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/playing-with-numbers-part-1

There is a second part as well.  It is one of the rare examples where I needed JS for the generation of the random numbers. I only use JS when Captivate cannot achieve what I want.  Not many CP users like maths, but as a civil engineer I like them of course.

 

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2020-03-04 18:12:10
2020-03-04 18:12:10
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I will open your link now. We do have an LMS. It  is Sakai based.

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2020-03-04 18:15:15
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I grew up in a street in which 3 Dutch families were our neighbours. I became a serious racing pigeon fancier from age 5! My wife and I fell in love with the Netherlands a few years ago and visit it every year the last 5 years. I love to pretend that I can speak Dutch – I speak my brand and my wife thinks I am not too bad at it.

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2020-03-04 18:19:08
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I am not living in the Netherlands, but belong to the majority of Dutch-speaking Belgians in Flanders. Do never think that Belgium is a French-speaking country, the numeric (>60% people) and economic (>70%) dominating part of Belgium is Flanders.  You would hear the difference with Dutch but same language.

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2020-03-04 18:26:02
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I realise that you are in Belgium and the funny thing is that I have not heard the Flemish accent. (Because we visit the Netherlands every year). You are far more comfortable with math than I am, given your background. I want to be able to demonstrate to lecturers threw kind of solution that exists to their learning activities, but then I would like to be able to train them in creating the activities themselves, using Captivate. I hope this will be practically implementable. There will be early adopters and refusers but I hope I can guide them towards better practice as in this one 3rd year course the pass rate is 37%!

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2020-03-07 08:49:39
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Dutch accent in English can easily be recognized, which is not the case for Flemish. Strange,

Really would like to help you, it is so important to have all levels of education using the tools which are now available. Too bad not everyone seems to understand or accept it.

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2020-03-04 17:46:59
2020-03-04 17:46:59

Hello Lieve

Let me try again. I am deployed in the College of Accounting Sciences at the University of South Africa, a mega ODL institution. I oversee the work that is performed by instructional designers in the college (faculty). Lecturers have paper as a source in mind when they conceive of learning. We work within a semester environment and that being the case, a great deal of time gets lost between students doing work and someone providing feedback. The current approach to student participation in learning activities is that scenarios and case studies are provided to students of Financial accounting, for instance. A task is set BUT the desired responses that students must determine are provided to students because lecturers are concerned that students will not be prepared for examinations.

I am after authentic learning experiences, i.e. in the uploaded snapshot of a trail balance, I blacked out certain amounts and want lecturers to require students to do the calculations and enter the answers in the blacked out areas. To each area must be linked/associated, a number of possible, anticipated answers that students can enter. (Experienced lecturers know where students make mistakes and hence some of the wrong answers are known.) Whatever the answer that is entered, a response in the form of perhaps a text bubble (in blue in the attachment) must pop-up or be provided otherwise, and the student should be given the opportunity to submit another attempt in case he/she was wrong in a previous attempt.

The principle I am after can be applied in maths, computing and other subjects where you must perform calculations. The opportunity to basically provide a form of tutoring via responses to answers provided is very attractive to me.

I wrote a motivation for the development of an application that would be able to do what I envisage in 2018 but due to a variety of reasons I have not made any progress. I came across Captivate and assumed it should be able to do what I want.

I attended my first webinar just now but while I am slowly making progress with mastering Captivate I simply need to know if Captivate can help.

Thank you for your time and expertise.

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2020-03-04 09:27:41
2020-03-04 09:27:41

You’re welcome. I am around daily and ready to answer more questions … tomorrow?

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2020-03-04 17:17:09
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Thank you. Whenever you find the time. I prepared a detailed response, posted it and received an error message. I am now beginning to do it mall over.

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2020-03-04 08:46:59
2020-03-04 08:46:59

Meant for newbies, about Text Entry Boxes:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/text-entry-boxes-back-to-basics

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2020-03-04 08:46:08
2020-03-04 08:46:08

My favorite workflow is using the Scrolling Text Interaction, here an example:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/scrolling-text-interaction-to-replace-text-entry-box

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2020-03-04 08:44:21
2020-03-04 08:44:21

This is a very broad question, would be easier if you did give an example with details and a screenshot.

Captivate has a lot of ways to ask for user input, validate that input, even score the result, give feedback, make navigation or other decisions based on that input etc. Sky is the limit… provided you know the ins and outs of Captivate.

I will post some links.  Here are some possibilities:

  1. Use a Fill-in-the-Blank type of question, all features of quizzes available
  2. Use a Dropdown interaction
  3. Use a Scrolling text interaction
  4. Use Text Entry Boxes
  5. Use Short Answer question

To avoid waiting time due to moderation, will post links in other comments.

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2020-03-04 09:25:42
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Hello Lieve, I am so grateful that you responded. I want to reply right now but cannot because I am in a meeting that will last the whole of today. At least we are basically on the same timeline. Best, Albert.

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