The scoring actions provide a simple way to incorporate scoring into your publication, which is particularly useful for e-Learning, computer-based training and simple game publications. These actions use a set of inbuilt variables to store various versions of the score but also provide presets for your to put custom scores in as well. However, you can create your own variables to perform a similar function if required.
The reporting actions provide a similar easy way to store information quickly to disk. Again they use a preset list of log files for the most commonly-used files and the files can be encrypted if preferred to keep information from being tampered with.
You may wish to use the two in combination by using the reporting actions to save a record of the users score to disk.
There are four Scoring actions, they are:
Store Score this action allows you to award points to a score when the user supplies a correct, incorrect or a partially correct answer.
Update Score this action allows you to amend the points awarded to a score. This may arise where a set of options are provided which the user can change.
Reverse Score this action allows you to reverse a previously awarded score. It reverses all the relevant inbuilt scoring variables. You would use this option where a score has been awarded but the user is allowed to return to the page to retake the question.
Reset Score this action is used when you want to reset the scores for a quiz back to zero. You would use this action when you want to restart a quiz in a publication or if you start a second quiz in the publication that also uses the Store Score and Update Score actions.
The Store Score and UpdateScore actions save the points you award for a score to System variables, known as Scoring variables see Preset Variables Glossary for a list of Scoring variables available in Creator.
The reporting actions are:
Set Report File allows you to select one of the preset report file types to save to and set its filename and location etc. This "activates" this report file and so you need to perform this action once prior to writing to the file.
Write to Report File allows you to write information to the report file you set up with the previous action simply by referring to the name of the file.
Close Report File closes the report file so the data is finalised and available for other programs or other actions.
If you prefer more control over your storage options, you can also use the storage actions to to read and write text to a text file or a binary file.