Hello,
I am attempting to create some conditional responses to shape button answers that also change the state of my character.
When the user selects the correct answer, I want the success message along with the correct character image to appear.
However, If the user selects either of the incorrect answers, I want the failure message as well as the incorrect character images to appear.
I’m not really aware of how to establish the needed variables and other settings to create these advances actions.
In addition,
I also, wanted to figure out a way to prevent the user from being able to reselect another answer choice. I’ve already set the attempts to (1) however, the user is still able to reselect another answer choice.
Although the 2nd answer isnt necessary recorded in the reporting, I still don’t want them to have the option to view other answer choices/responses after already selecting their answer. Any way to do this?
*FYI I’m using Captivate 19
Thanks Lieve and Gaanf
Thanks, for your feedback. Oh and that’s the character in his normal state for the question. I have a different change state for the correct answer and the two incorrect answers. (see attached).
I’ll look into the work around you’ve suggest for this.
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You may have to look at the setup blog, which has been authorized for publishing, or go straight to my personal blog:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/custom-mcq-slide-with-multiple-correct-answers
Great work!!
It looks like my understanding was correct. You created a custom question using shapes. Maybe you can have a look at this recent video I posted about a custom MCQ. My setup blog is waiting for moderation:
Custom Multiple Choice Question – eLearning (adobe.com)
I have some ideas in mind, again including shared actions because this is also a typical use case for them.
You can add a custom state to each shape, which has the right character added, and use the Success event of the shape button to switch to that custom state, replacing the Normal state. Alternative is to use an extra multistate object which has the characters for both correct and wrong answers. Normal state of that object should be empty. In that case you can use that unique multistate object for both wrong and correct answers. Reflecting on the best setup to make the shared actions easy to use takes some time but can allow you to save lot of time later on.
Disabling the shape buttons needs to happen with the action on the Submit button. You cannot use grouping, which is a long delayed feature request to be able to disable a group of interactive objects. You could eventually do that with JS.
I suppose you talk about version 11.5? That is the most recent version.
Not sure to understand your question correctly. You talk about ‘shape button answers’? Gaanf seems to suppose that you are talking about question slides, but a shape button cannot be used on a question slide? Are you talking about shape buttons used on a custom question?
Anyway if the feedback messages are shapes (not captions) it is easy to add any object to the message itself in its normal state, as Gaanf explained. Normally shapes are by default used for all feedback messages, except for those appearing in software simulations where the old captions are used. Check this in Preferences.
First part of the question – showing ‘Correct’ and ‘Incorrect’ characters along with the feedback message:
You don’t really need any advanced actions for that. Just select the ‘Correct’ feedback caption, go to ‘State View’ and add your character there. Same for the ‘Incorrect’ feedback caption.
Second part of the question – prevent reselecting another answer choice:
Are you saying that with ‘No. of Attempts’ set to 1 on question level, a learner still can alter his/her choice AFTER having submitted the answer? That’s not expected behavior and that’s not how it works for me. Something must be off.
If you mean they can alter their choice BEFORE they clicked ‘Submit’, then that’s expected and the way it’s supposed to be (since they might have accidentally have clicked the wrong choice first, and should have a chance to correct that).
Maybe you have checked ‘Submit All’ in the click preferences? Then a learner could indeed change their selection on the current and previous questions, as long as they have not yet clicked the ‘Submit All’ button.
Hi Gaanf,
Well for some reason the failure message does not appear even though I have the tic box selected for the incorrect answers. When the incorrect button shapes are selected, the change states switch but the failure message/feedback caption does not appear. Since this feature wasn’t working, I assumed that I may need to set some advanced actions.
However, the success caption populates just fine when the correct answer is selected.
Currently, there is no “submit” button on my slide. I just have a “continue” button. Since the shape button containing the correct answer has the “include in the quiz” tic box selected, while the incorrect answers have been deselected from the quiz I didn’t think a “submit” button was needed.
Not sure if you can see the example image I’ve attached to show my slide.
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Hi Kaneisha5FE0,
Lieve’s right, I got you wrong here, thinking this is about a standard Quiz slide, built with Captivate’s quiz engine, when apparently it is a custom quiz slide, built from shapes.
In that case, yes, the correct answer button’s failure caption won’t appear. It doesn’t work when there’s more than one button on the slide. For a failure caption to appear, you’ll have to fake it by using the Success captions of your distractor answer shapes as failure captions for your custom quiz question. You can add your failure character there as described.
As for preventing the learner from changing their selection – you’d have to have an advanced action on all of the answer shapes that would disable all of them.
On a personal note – looking at the image you attached, to me the ‘success’ character looks more like he was in doubt that this is really the correct answer. Shouldn’t he cheer or give a thumbs-up or something? Just a thought…
Thanks, for your feedback. Oh and that’s the character in his normal state for the question. I have a different change state for the correct answer and the two incorrect answers. (see attached).
I’ll look into the work around you’ve suggest for this.
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