Restart and random questions from pool

ActivePresenter Support Questions
1

Hello,
I have a small interactive presentation which draws 4 slides from a pool of 7.
Then on a last closing slide I have a restart button.
It seems that if I use the restart button the 4 selected slides stay the same.
Only if I refresh the page do I get a new random set of 4.

Is there a way to force a new random set of slides when hitting the restart button?

Thanks and regards,

Michael

2

Hi,

You can add a Javascript code in your restart button to reload the presentation:
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Please notice that this only works if you run the presentation without LMS.

Regards,

3

Hi,
Thanks for that.
And for an LMS any solution or must the user close it and restart it?
Regards,
Michael

4

Hi Michael,

If you run on LMS, there should be an option for users that they can choose a new attempt or just resume a previous section. Users must close and restart it.

Regards,

5

Hello,
Ideally I would like to have it work inside the SCORM itself as it autoplays and the users do not see the course page where you select start new attempt.
Interestingly enough - location.reload() works in the LMS… it comes up with a new random set of slides… but it also indicates and error -
“GetValue(cmi.entry) failed
Retrieve data after termination”.
This error doesn’t prevent it from working as should. Is there a way to prevent the error or prevent it from popping up ?
Thanks,
Michael

6

Hi Michael,

Calling location.reload inside the SCORM package may produce unexpected result since all SCORM related calls will be invalid after that.

Regards,

7

Hi,
Well noted.
Any other idea how to force a new attempt and slide reloads from inside the SCORM?
Can I initialize it again or something like that?
Thanks,
Michael

8

Hi Michael,

Unfortunately, it seems there is no way to do that.

Regards,

9

Hi,
Ok - I will work around the problem.
Thanks

10

Hi Michael,
have you found a solution for this issue?
I mean the refresh in the SCORM package.

11

Hi,

I didn’t use pool and place all my slides in the main presentation and used a random list of numbers to move from one to another.
On my first slide - on load - I have this script

var slideNumbers = [3,4,5,6,7,8,9];

var obj = prez.object(“Scenarios”);
var draw = 0;
var num = 0;

for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
draw = getRandomInt(0,slideNumbers.length-1)
num = i + 1;
prez.variable(“slide”+num,slideNumbers[draw]);
//window.alert(prez.variable(“slide”+num))
slideNumbers.splice(draw,1)
//window.alert(slideNumbers)
}

if (obj)
{
obj.text("SlideIDs: " + prez.variable(“slide1”)+ ", " + prez.variable(“slide2”)+ ", " + prez.variable(“slide3”)+ ", " + prez.variable(“slide4”));
}

function getRandomInt(min, max) {
min = Math.ceil(min);
max = Math.floor(max);
return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1)) + min;
}

Then on my start button I have
prez.showSlideAt(prez.variable(“slide1”),0)

Then on my continue button on each slide
I have prez.showSlideAt(prez.variable(“slide”+prez.variable(“slideViewCount”))
and I add one to the variable slideviewcount before this

Then once I have viewed enough - the button goes to the last slide.

Hope this helps,
You can see it in action here:

All the best,

12

Hi Michael,
thanks for your reply.
Could you also have a script solution to randomize also a time range when this questions appears?
For example, if a video is long 2min, the questions appears random in a range from 1.45 to 1.55?

Very thanks

13

Hi,
I guess, theoretically, you could randomized your start times like I did the slide numbers and use “showSlideAt(index,
time)” but hard to say.
I cannot help more - I believe this is a different situation from mine and I don’t have any experience working with videos. The ActivePresenter team may be able to be better assist you.
Regards,
Michael

14

@namnt What do you think about this solution?
showSlideAt(index,time)

I need this, please.

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15

@EspeD, you can find the sample in this post: 2 questions in a Pool of 8 questions random

Regards

17

Hi,
I build a quiz with the work around of Michael (Thanks a lot for that!).
I just don’t know how to reset the quiz result after restarting the quiz.

I suppose the correct answers are saved in the variable apQuizCorrectInteractions.
At the end of the quiz the “try again”-Button brings the user back to the start slide of the quiz. Because apQuizCorrectInteractions is a system variable I don’t know how to set it back to 0.

Thanks in advance!

18

Hi,

Please try using the Execute JavaScript action with the following code:

//Replace slideIndex with the index of the start slide of the quiz
prez.restart(slideIndex);

Regards,

19

Perfect! Thanks a lot!