Using animations to extend Adobe Captivate for right-click capability

Scoring your quiz

Scoring does not work correctly in preview mode. To see your scoring you must browse the HTML. If you are not interested in scoring, you can skip this section, which explains how to block the Adobe Flash right-click menu.

Scoring for the right click does not require you to do anything special, but you should understand that the way it works behind the scenes is a bit different from what you probably would expect and the reporting is a bit confusing until you understand how it works.

Before I start trying to explain how it works, I should say something about why it works this way. To score the right click, I have to change Adobe Captivate internal variables. I was not able to find a variable (that I had access to) that would allow me to change the scoring for an action. I was, however, able to change the max score. And since I could not give credit for a correct right click from a user, I reduced how many answers a user had to get right, in order to score a correct right click. This allows the user to get 100% if he/she gets the right click correct, and a lower percent if the user gets it wrong.

In other words, a correctly-executed right-click answer subtracts one from the maximum (possible) score instead of adding one to the actual score. This works out to be almost the same thing if you are scoring by percentage correct.

Let me explain with an example. Suppose you had a simulation with four slides and each slide contains an interaction with the weight of one; the total achievable score, or maximum score is four points. If a user now answers all but the right-click question correctly, the user has a score of three out of four (or 75%).

If a user answers all interactions correctly including the right-click method you would expect a score of 100% and this is what you will get. Using our example, the maximum score will automatically be reduced by one point from four to three. As a result, the user will receive a 100% score displayed as three out of three answers correct, not four out of four, as you would expect. I know this is a bit complicated to grasp, but if you read this carefully and then play with it a little you will see how it works and how you can use the right click method in your scoring. If you still don’t understand the concept, after playing with it, contact me by e-mail and I will explain further.

In summary, to get reporting working in this way, you do the following:

1. Double-click on each left click box for which you want to score and go to the Reports Tab. Select the Report Answers option for the question.
2. Don’t forget the left click box that is on the same screen as your right-click animation. Report answers should also be set for this even though no user will ever click it. This causes the max score to be increased by one to allow for the right click, which is invisible to Adobe Captivate.
   From the Adobe Captivate main menu, click Quiz, then Quiz Preferences. In the tree structure on the left select the Settings option select the Allow Users to Review Quiz option.

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