- Captivate User Guide
- Introduction to Captivate
- Add a slide
- Add text blocks
- Add media blocks
- Interactive components
- Widgets
- Create quizzes
- Add audio to a project
- Interactions
- Animations
- Accessibility
- Customize the timeline
- Customize TOC and Playbar
- Edit project properties
- Create a simulation project
- Preview a project
- Share a project for review
- Publish a project
- Upgrade projects in Adobe Captivate
This document is applicable to the all-new Adobe Captivate version 12 and newer. To learn about question pools in Captivate Classic refer to this document.
Overview
Question pools allow authors to create, manage, and reuse sets of questions for quizzes or assessments that provide the following benefits:
- Randomization: Question pools prevent quiz predictability by presenting participants with different question selections, ensuring fairness
- Reusability: They provide a categorized repository of questions, allowing efficient reuse across courses or modules.
- Customization: Authors can align questions with learning objectives and modify them accordingly, saving time during course development.
- Diverse question types: Pools support various question types (multiple choice, true/false, match, sequence, and short answer).
Topics in this page:
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Select to add a new slide from the slide navigator on the left.
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Select Random from Question slides to insert a random question slide.
This random question slide will serve as a placeholder for learners to receive a quiz question randomly selected from the linked question pool. Ensure to include any slide interactions on this random slide as well.
Note:You have the option to insert several random question slides throughout the course. With the slide navigator, you can swiftly navigate to these slides to modify the associated question pool for each.
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In the Question Properties section, add the points and penalty for correct and wrong answers respectively.
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In Reporting section, select the checkbox Report answer if you want the quiz to be included in an LMS. Each scorable unit of Captivate is automatically assigned a unique Interaction ID. This Interaction ID is what makes data tracking by the LMS possible.
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Select the random question slide from the slide navigator.
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Select under Question Pool and then select Create a pool.
Note:Pool 1 (Empty) is a default question pool if you are creating a pool for the first time.
Add questions to a question pool
Add any of the supported types of question slides (Multiple choice, True or False, Match, Short answer, or Sequence) to a question pool. Creating a new pool triggers the opening of the pool editing window. Here, you can add questions, rename the pool, delete it, or toggle between pools if you have multiple question pools.
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Select on the left and then select the type of question slide.
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Change the question properties from the Properties panel on the right.
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After adding the questions to the pool select Exit located on the top right to close the edit pool window.
You can quickly access the edit question pool screen from the top menu or by using the shortcut keys:
- For Windows: select Window >Question Pool or use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Ctrl+P.
- For macOS: select Window > Question Pool or Ctrl+Cmd+P.
Import questions to a question pool
Questions can be added to a question pool by importing them from assets or a CSV file. Importing questions via a CSV enables the bulk addition of questions, which simplifies quiz management, while assets offer a collection of pre-designed question slides for easy inclusion in your project. This feature offers multiple advantages, such as the rapid addition of numerous questions, streamlined management of large quizzes, and a reduction in manual entry mistakes.
Import CSV
Add questions to a question pool by importing them from a CSV file. This feature streamlines the process of populating your question pool, especially when dealing with large sets of questions. Learn more about importing a CSV as questions.
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Edit any question pool.
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Select from the left toolbar to add new questions, and then select Import CSV.
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Choose the CSV file from the system. The questions contained within the CSV will be automatically imported as slides into the question pool.
Note:Only graded questions are allowed when importing questions from a CSV. Knowledge check questions are ignored if they are present in the CSV.
Import question slides from assets
Adobe Captivate provides a variety of pre-designed question slides that can help save time. Simply select a category or question template and incorporate it into your question pool.
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Select from the left toolbar to add new questions, and then select Add from assets.
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Choose the type of question from the list of available question slides. When accessing questions from Assets to add to a question pool, only graded questions will be displayed.
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Select Insert Slides to add the question to the pool.
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Open or edit any question pool.
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Select the icon at the top left and select Rename to change the pool's name.
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Add a new name to the question pool.
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Select Done.
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Open or edit any question pool.
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Select the icon at the top left and select Delete.
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Select Delete to remove the question pool and all questions within it. If other random slides are linked to this pool, they will also be deleted and subsequently linked to the default question pool.
Move question slides between question pools and the project
A question slide can be moved to a question pool, removing it from the project and adding it to the chosen pool, or vice versa. Likewise, question slides can be transferred from one question pool back to the main project or to another pool.
Move questions from a project to a pool
Easily move question slides between the main project and various question pools. To move a question from the main project to a question pool, select the slides in the slide navigator, right-click, and choose Move to question pool. Select the desired one from an expandable list if there are multiple pools. The selected questions will be removed from the pool and will be added after the last slide in the project.
Similarly, to move questions from a pool back to the project, edit the question pool, select the question slides, right-click, and choose Move to project.
Move questions from one question pool to another
Open any question pool and select the question slides you want to move. Right-click on the selected slides, choose Move to and then select the target question pool. The selected slides will be removed from the current pool and added to the end of the chosen pool.
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