Quizzing preferences

Quizzing preferences overview

Use the Quizzing preferences to configure how quizzes function within your eLearning project. Set quiz requirements, scoring visibility, review options, and navigation controls to tailor the learner experience. Enable reporting via SCORM, AICC, or xAPI for LMS tracking, and customize feedback messages and button labels to align with your instructional goals. These settings help ensure quizzes are accessible, trackable, and engaging across platforms.

General

Enter the following information:

Name: Enter a name for your quiz in a project with multiple quizzes. Naming helps identify a quiz easily.

Mandate: Select one of the following:

• Optional ‐ The user can skip this quiz allows users to skip the quiz and move on with the project.

• Required ‐ The user must take the quiz to continue: The project moves to the next slide only after the user has completed all the question slides.

• Pass Required ‐ The user must pass this quiz to continue: The project moves to the next slide only after the user has scored the required points in the quiz.

• Answer All ‐ The user must answer every question to continue: The project moves to the next slide only after the user has answered all the question slides.

Objective ID: The ID of the quiz to which the question slide belongs. In a quiz containing multiple quizzes, an objective ID helps identify the quiz to which the question belongs.

Interaction ID prefix: Every action a user performs on a question slide is assigned a unique interaction ID. For example, when the user attempts a question incorrectly the first time and gets it right the next time round, Adobe Captivate generates two interaction IDs. Use this field to customize the generated interaction IDs by prefixing them with the assigned characters.

Settings:

Show score at the end of the quiz: This lets users view their score at the end of the quiz. You can customize the message that appears when the user passes or fails the quiz. Select Quiz Result Messages to customize the messages. You can also customize the options that you want to display on the score slide. 

When you enable this option, the Quiz Result Messages dialog box displays, where you can customize the passing and failing messages, and choose the scores to display at the end of a quiz.

Allow users to review quiz: Users can review a quiz after they have completed attempting it, and the score is displayed. This option allows users to find out questions they answered incorrectly, and their correct answers. You can customize the messages provided in the feedback. 

• Show correct answers: If you select this checkbox, the correct answers always display while a user reviews a quiz.
• Include Review mode navigation buttons: If you select this checkbox, the navigation buttons on a quiz review always display.

When you enable this option, the Question Review Messages dialog box displays, where you can customize the messages that appear upon reviewing the quiz.

Include Shuffle Answers options: For question slides with multiple answers, the answers shuffle when the user attempts the same question slide the next time.

Include Clear button: Select to display a Clear button for all quiz questions.

Include Submit All button: This option lets users review and modify answered questions and submit all questions simultaneously. 

When you enable the option, the Submit All Messages dialog box displays, where you can customize the messages that appear on submitting a quiz.

Include Back button: Select to display a Back button for all quiz questions.

Include Skip button: Select to display a Skip button for all quiz questions.

REPORTING

If your content is delivered or tracked via a SCORM-compliant LMS, select the checkbox Enable Reporting.

Standard: Choose the required option:

• SCORM 1.2: Select if you're using a SCORM 1.2-based LMS. Select Configure to specify the manifest file details. See Create a manifest file for more information. 
• SCORM 2004: Select if you're using a SCORM 2004-based LMS. Select Configure to specify the manifest file details. See Create a manifest file for more information.
• AICC: Aviation Industry CBT Committee standards define how content for e-learning is developed, delivered, and evaluated.
  
• xAPI: A protocol for learning technology called xAPI enables data collection on a person's wide range of experiences, both online and offline. This API collects information on a person or group's activities across numerous technologies uniformly.

Default labels

You can customize the messages that your learner sees when they complete a quiz. Change the text for all quiz results and progress.

• Correct message: The message that must display when a learner answers a question correctly.
• Incorrect message: The message that must display when a learner answers a question incorrectly.
  
• Retry message: The message that must display when a learner re-attempts a question after answering a question incorrectly.
  
• Incomplete message: The message that must display when a learner partially answers a question.
  
• Timeout message: The message that must display when a learner exceeds the specified time set for a question.
  
• Hint message: The message that acts as a hint when a learner attempts a question.
  
• Buttons:
  • Submit: The text to display on the Submit button.
  • Submit all: The text to display on the Submit all button. This button appears when a learner completes a quiz.
  • Clear: The text to display on the Clear button. This button clears the responses entered by a learner.
  • Skip: The text to display on the Skip button. This button helps a learner to skip a question.
    
  • Back: The text to display on the Back button. This button helps a learner to go to the previous slide.
    
• Progress indication: Defines the format of the progress of a quiz. For example, Question %d/%d indicates Question 1/5 completes.