by Kevin Siegel 
When a learner takes a quiz created with Adobe Captivate, failure by the learner to click the Submit button on each and every question is a recurring problem. Many learners don't realize that a question is considered incorrect if it's skipped. And the answer is skipped if the Submit button isn't clicked. How can a learner miss clicking the Submit button? I've seen learners select a correct answer, and then click a slide's Next button to move to the next question. Only after seeing the Quiz Results slide will a learner understand that clicking the Submit button was mandatory. By clicking Next, the answer was never submitted for scoring and was counted as an incorrect answer. Ouch!
I've gotten plenty of emails from developers wishing there was a way to ensure that learners didn't forget to click the Submit button. Fortunately, there is a Quiz setting available in Captivate that will help.
Choose Quiz > Quiz Preferences. From the Settings group, select Submit All.
The Submit button on every question slide will be replaced with a Submit All button.
Of course, the same learner who didn't understand the importance of clicking the Submit button will likely have the same issue with the Submit All button. The wonderful thing about the Submit All button is what happens should a learner click a slide's Next button on the last question in the quiz, or the Submit All button on any slide.
Check out the alert dialog box shown below. Thanks to the Submit All option, there's simply no way a learner can avoid answering every question.
After clicking the OK button, the learner will be required to go back through the Quiz and answer any questions that had not been completed. Once the learner has answered every question, the Submit All Answers button can be clicked while the learner is on any slide. Once clicked, the learner will see the alert dialog box below.
In a future version of Captivate, I'd love to see more information about which questions haven't been answered by the learner (in the first Submit All dialog box). As it stands now, learners will need to go through every question slide looking for anything that hasn't been answered. Nevertheless, the Submit All option is a step in the right direction.
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