2 Replies Latest reply: May 6, 2013 12:44 PM by Lilybiri RSS

    Multi slide quiz vs. Flash quiz on single slide

    milhousebarks Community Member

      I'm looking for some insight and feedback on a game/quiz we are developing as part of a course

      authored in Captivate 6 (on a Mac).  I'm fairly new to Captivate and am trying to avoid approaches that might give me issues down the road.  Here is the background on what I'm trying to do.  Sorry if it is too much detail.

       

      As part of a course we want a user to comlete a simple game/quiz where they are presented with a picture and then must click on a small area of the picture that shows a specific feature.  They would need to click  the right place before continuing on.  Once they click in the right spot they would move on to a multiple choice quiz question asking them to identify what they saw.  Then they would go to the next picture to identify a new feature and so on.  Six images with a small feature to identify by clicking on it, each one followed by a multiple choice question asking them to identify the feature.

       

      We won't be scoring their quizes, since this is meant more as a knowledge review.  But users will be required to complete everything in the course to get credit so we will track completion.

       

      I had initially planned to have a Flash programmer  create the entire thing as a self contained game/quiz and put that into a single slide.   That seems like it would give the most options for how it is presented and specific animations/interactions. 

       

      But after playing around with Captivate for a while, I thought maybe it would be best to use Flash to create a separate SWF for each picture, then use captivate for the quizes between.  And now that I've played around with it more, I realize it is pretty easy to use Captivate and make the picture a big image button (with nothing happening when people click on it) and place a smaller transparent button over the area they are supposed to find and make clicking on that take them to the quiz question slide for the picture.

       

      Doing everything in Captivate is appealing, but obviously Flash would give me more options for creating an interesting game.

       

      This course is destined for a LMS and is required to be SCORM compliant (the SCORM engine works up to 4th Edition).  While users aren't scored, we do want to track completion.

       

      Anyone have issues bringing in separate SWF stuff from Flash either for stability/playback or related to SCORM?  Any compelling reasons to keep everything on one slide using the all Flash approach versus using a dozen or so separate Captivate slides?  Or visa versa?

       

      Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

        • 1. Re: Multi slide quiz vs. Flash quiz on single slide
          ElaKat Community Member

          But after playing around with Captivate for a while, I thought maybe it would be best to use Flash to create a separate SWF for each picture, then use captivate for the quizes between.  And now that I've played around with it more, I realize it is pretty easy to use Captivate and make the picture a big image button (with nothing happening when people click on it) and place a smaller transparent button over the area they are supposed to find and make clicking on that take them to the quiz question slide for the picture.

           

          I'm curious about this method you're describing here. Why make the picture an image button that doesn't do anything?

           

          If I understand your scenario correctly, I would do all of it in Captivate to make it easier to edit later. (It's a personal preference; obviously you can edit flash files, but I find Captivate easier for quick edits.) I'd create the picture slides by inserting an image on the slide and putting a click box over the new feature which jumps to the next slide (the question slide). So it's pretty much the method you're describing, except I wouldn't use an image button (since I don't understand what purpose it serves).

           

          There's a fair amount of interactivity you could implement on your picture slides, either with the built-in failure/success/hint caption options or Advanced Actions. But you could also alernate slides with a Flash animation and then Captivate quiz slides... I guess it depends on what sort of "interesting" things you'd like to do.

           

          I can't imagine you'd have any issues with SCORM, especially since you aren't trying to score anything... but others might know more about that.

          • 2. Re: Multi slide quiz vs. Flash quiz on single slide
            Lilybiri CommunityMVP

            I didn't understand this question quite well. What is the idea of the image button? And is this sort of a hotspot question? Why not try to insert an image to show what you want?

             

            Lilybiri