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Question: Making Sense of Captivate Surveys

I am trying to create a survey with 10 questions.  I have managed to get it to work and it sends an email.  However, I need to see the survey questions and the answers.  Can I program Captivate to send this information.  All I get right now is that they took the survey and when they took it. I am working with Captivate 2.

Answer

The easiest way to gather data in a meaningful way would be to use a Learning Management System (LMS). If you are committed to sending Quiz data via email, the solution would first be to select Interactions and score from the Reporting Level area of the Quiz Reporting preferences. Then send the Quiz results to an email address as an attachment. You could then drop the raw data into Access. Since every survey answer will have a unique ID, you will be able to map the Access data to the survey questions. The only downside is that you will need to know how to use Access to parse the data and build the necessary reports and tables.

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