How to Create a Simple Multiple-Choice Quiz in Adobe Captivate
It’s so easy to create all kinds of quizzes that you can grade in Adobe Captivate.
Captivate is a software that helps users to create multimedia content and deliver it in a variety of formats. It is designed for the needs of instructional designers, e-learning developers, and trainers.
Captivate can be used to create interactive quizzes with multiple choice questions. It has an intuitive interface and offers many features that make it easy to use even for beginners.
Follow these steps…
(1) Fire up your Adobe Captivate
(2) Click the Create New > BLANK PROJECT link on the STARTER screen to display the NEW BLANK PROJECT dialog box:
(3) Select a screen size like 640 x 480 and click OK to create your new blank project.
(4) Select QUIZ > QUESTION SLIDE (also: SHIFT + CTRL + Q) from the menu to display the INSERT QUESTIONS dialog box:
(5) Select the MULTIPLE CHOICE check-box.
(6) Enter the number of questions you like into the associated number field. For the sake of this exercise we’ll enter 2. Leave the GRADED option as is since at the end of the quiz we would like to see our grade.
(7) Click OK to display your first multiple-choice question in editing window:
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(8) Type your QUESTION and the ANSWERS. The selected option button represents the CORRECT answer.
TIP FOR SELECTING and EDITING TEXT: Click the text template to display HANDLING BOXES around it. Then RIGHT CLICK to display the pop-up menu and select EDIT TEXT (or press F2):
TIP 2: Make sure to click and select the OPTION BUTTON before the CORRECT answer, even if it’s the SECOND one.
Here is our first slide:
(9) Select the SECOND SLIDE and repeat step 8.:
(10) Select File > Preview > Project (or F4) to preview your multiple-choice test in a PREVIEW WINDOW:
(11) Answer the first question CORRECTLY (press SUBMIT) and the second one WRONGLY (and press SUBMIT again) to get your grade in the QUIZ RESULT SLIDE:
(12) OPTIONAL: click the REVIEW QUIZ button to review how you did in the quiz.
Now, that wasn’t that hard at all, was it? Good luck!
If I change the text in the review area, it affects every slide. How can I disable this?
Robin, perhaps you’re in a Master Slide? If that is the case then any edits will appear on all slides. See http://help.adobe.com/en_US/captivate/cp/using/WSd160b5fdf5100e8f-a0ae387126564aa2e8-8000.html
how can sync the audio to each points?
Hi-I’ve created a multiple choice quiz and have employed most of the features however am experiencing one problem-It duplicates every screen, after every answer when the submit/continue buton is activated it shows a duplicate of the previous screen agan and cannot be clicked on until it advances to the next screen. To save time I duplicated each of my screens and then entered new questions. I don’t see the extra screens in the film strip but the appear in preview. I don’t see this kind of response in the basic quiz template and they work correctly. Is it because i duplicated my screen? therefore the quest “is” if i have a large project with 50-500 quiz questions, how do i add/set up many additional screens with the same background with the same feedback graphics/audio/etc. over multiple screens. Thank You -Tony
I have a couple of problems using the quiz. First, when they miss a question I want them to go back and review the material then answer the question again. If I set the attempts to 1, it won’t let them answer the question again. If I set the attempts to more than 1, they stay on the question for the second attempt instead of going back to review.
The second point is that if I have multiple questions in a row (a mini-quiz to review covered material) if I set the questions to review the material upon a wrong answer, when they get to the next question after reviewing the material it says they did not complete the quiz and they cannot answer. For example, 3 questions in a row with each wrong answer set to have them go back and review, if they miss questions 1 or 2 they are not allowed to answer question 3. If i set the quiz to continue whether they get a right of wrong answer, only question 3 will kick them back into the material.