There are a few things you need to be aware of if you intend using Infinite Attempts on Captivate quizzes, especially when in combination with certain other Quiz > Settings > Required options.You need to clearly understand the potential issues because under certain circumstances you could find your users caught with what appears to be a non-responsive e-learning lesson and no apparent way to progress any further through the quiz slides, or to progress beyond the Quiz Results screen to complete the lesson. Potential issues when using Infinite Attempts with Quizzing In the modified example shown below, I’ve created an advanced action (cleverly called MyAdvancedAction) and configured this to be executed after my last allowed unsuccessful attempt. This will then enable the user’s first attempt to also be their Last Attempt, thereby triggering whatever action I configure for the Last Attempt event. So what would you need to do in order to have the opportunity to trigger some action as a result of a user failure? You would need to deselect Infinite attempts and set it to a lower limit that the user is more likely to reach.įor example, if I wanted to execute one action when the user clicked inside the hit area (a success action) and a different action as soon as the user click anywhere else, then I would need to set the number of attempts to 1. In short, I’m allowed infinite UNSUCCESSFUL attempts, but only one SUCCESSFUL attempt. So, I can click UNSUCCESSFULLY on the slide as many times as I want, as long as I don’t click within the hit area and register a SUCCESS condition. And I get no failure event registered because I still haven’t reached the last of my infinite attempts. I get no success event because I didn’t click inside the hit area. If I interact with this slide at run-time and click inside the click box hit area once, it will execute the assigned On Success action and jump to the next slide. Conversely, if I click outside the hit area, no success or failure event is registered. The Last Attempt action is disabled because you will never reach a last attempt if the allowed attempts is set to Infinite.
As you can see from the screenshot, this click box is set to allow Infinite attempts and the On Success action is to Go to the next slide. Let’s illustrate this concept by looking at the example below using a click box object. So, Infinite Attempts in Captivate should more accurately be renamed as Infinite UNSUCCESSFUL Attempts, because that’s what it really means. So when does Infinite not really mean Infinite? Well, it’s really not that complicated… It actually means ‘Infinite UNSUCCESSFUL Attempts’Ĭaptivate usually only ever gives you one SUCCESSFUL attempt at an activity, even if you’ve set the interactivity to allow infinite attempts. As soon as the user selects the correct answer, they’ve used up all attempts and get taken to the next slide. What most Captivate authors expect to happen is that this setting should mean their user can keep attempting the quiz question again and again as many times as they like.
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