# Creating question slides

Captivate allows you to create state-of-the-art e-learning movies with the following quiz functionality:

- Quickly implement single-choice, multiple-choice, and true/false quizzes.

- Tailor the type of quiz to your material by using radio button responses for single-choice questions and check box responses for multiple choice questions.

- Determine the actions that follow user responses. For example, you can set one action (such as "advance to the next slide") when a user supplies a correct answer, and you can set a different action (such as "jump to URL") when a user supplies an incorrect answer.

- Measure student performance by using the scoring feature with any type of quiz. Track number of attempts, correct and incorrect responses, and send pass/fail data to your learning management system (LMS).

- Choose to provide students with feedback based upon correct or incorrect responses.

Note: If you create a movie containing quiz slides, the user must "complete" the entire movie for scoring to report to the designated LMS. Consequently, you may want to include a warning or note in movies with quiz slides regarding this restriction.

To create a quiz slide:

1. Open a Captivate movie.

2. From the Insert menu, select Question Slide.

The Question Types dialog box appears.

3. Select a question type from the list and click OK.

4. Select the Question tab and modify the following fields:

   Options vary depending on the question type you selected.

   Matching question

   ### Question

   Name: Specifies a unique name for the question.

   Question: Type the matching question, exactly as you want it to appear on the slide, into the text box. For example, you might type "Match the job titles in column 1 with the correct departments in column 2."

   ### Answers

   Add: Click to add a new item to column 1 or column 2.

   Delete: Click to delete the selected item from column 1 or column 2.

   : Click to move the selected item in column 1 or column 2 up one position in the list.

   : Click to move the selected item in column 1 or column 2 down one position in the list.

   Match: Select an item in column 1, select the correct matching item in column 2, and then click Match to establish the correct answer relationship. After you establish a match, a line is automatically drawn to show the match.

   Numbering: Click the drop-down arrow and select a numbering type for the answers. You can choose none, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, or numbers.

   Clear matches: Click to erase all of the matches that have been established between items in column 1 and items in column 2.

   Multiple choice question

   Name: Specifies a unique name for the question.

   Question: Type the question, exactly as you want it to appear on the slide, into the text box.

   Answers: Click Add and enter the answers as you want them to appear on the slide. Click Delete to remove an answer from the list. Click the check boxes next to the correct answers.

   Move Up: Click to move the selected answer higher in the answer list.

   Move Down: Click to move the selected answer lower in the answer list.

   Style: Select the style of question you want to create: Multiple choice, Single choice, True or false, or Yes or no.

   Numbering: Click the drop-down arrow and select a numbering type for the answers. You can choose none, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, or numbers.

5. Select the Options tab and modify the following fields:

   ### Type

   Type: Specifies the type of question being asked. Select from Graded and Survey.

   ### If correct answer

   Jump to: Select the desired action or destination after a user selects the correct answer.

   - No action: Select this option to have no action take place when the user clicks inside the click box.

   - Go to previous slide: Select this option to have the movie return to the previous slide.

   - Go to next slide: Select this option to have the movie proceed to the next slide.

   - Jump to slide: Select this option to have the movie jump to a specific slide.

   - Open URL or file: Select this option to have the movie jump to a specific URL on the Internet or to a local file. Click the drop-down arrow next to Continue to select the window in which the URL should appear; choose from Current, New, Parent, and Top.

   - Open other movie: Select this option to have the movie begin playing a different movie.

   - Send e-mail to: Select this option to open the default mail browser.

   - Execute JavaScript: Select this option to run a specific piece of JavaScript.

   Continue: Depending upon the type of action selected above, this box changes to allow you to enter destination information.

   Note: When using the URL option, the URL is visible when you edit the slide in Captivate. However, it is not visible to the end user. If you want to the URL to end users, you just create a simple image with the URL text on the image, add the image to your movie slide, and place a click box over the image.

   Go to next slide: Depending on the option you selected for Jump to, this box changes to let you specify an exact destination.

   Show correct message: Specifies that a text message should appear when a user supplies a correct answer. If this option is selected, the user must click the message button to advance. Clear this check box if you do not want to give any feedback for a correct answer.

   ### If wrong answer

   Allow user [#] attempts: Use the arrows to select the number of attempts a user can try before another action takes place.

   Infinite attempts: Select this option to give users an unlimited number of attempts.

   Jump to: Click on the desired action/destination after the last attempt. You can choose from the options listed below.

   - No action: Select this option to have no action take place when the user clicks inside the click box.

   - Go to previous slide: Select this option to have the movie return to the previous slide.

   - Go to next slide: Select this option to have the movie proceed to the next slide.

   - Jump to slide: Select this option to have the movie jump to a specific slide.

   - Open URL or file: Select this option to have the movie jump to a specific URL on the Internet or to a local file. Click the drop-down arrow next to Continue to select the window in which the URL should appear; choose from Current, New, Parent, and Top.

   - Open other movie: Select this option to have the movie begin playing a different movie.

   - Send e-mail to: Select this option to open the default mail browser.

   - Execute JavaScript: Select this option to run a specific piece of JavaScript.

   Note: When using the Open URL option, the URL is visible when you edit the slide in Captivate. However, it is not visible to the end user. If you want to show the URL to end users, create a simple image with the URL text on the image, add the image to your movie slide, and place a click box over the image.

   Go to next slide: Depending upon the option you selected for Jump to, this box changes to let you specify an exact destination.

   Show error message: Enter a text message to appear when a user supplies an incorrect answer (final). If this option is selected, the user must click the message button to advance. Clear this check box if you do not want to give any feedback for an incorrect answer.

   Show retry message: Enter a text message to appear when a user supplies an incorrect answer—but there are remaining attempts available.

   ### Buttons

   Show clear button: Select this option to display a button labeled "Clear" that users can click to clear their answers and select new answers.

   Show back button: Select this option to display a button labeled "Back" that users can click to move back one slide in the movie.

   Quiz: Click to open the Quiz dialog box, which contains options for managing all of the question slides in the movie..

6. Select the Reporting tab and modify the following fields:

   Report answers: This option keeps a quiz score.

   Objective ID: This is an optional parameter. If the quiz question is related to an objective set in your learning management system, enter the objective in this field.

   Interaction ID: If you want the Captivate movie (SWF file) to send tracking information to your learning management system, you must use the Interaction ID specified by your learning management system.

   Weighting: Weighting signifies the relative importance of a question. You can enter any numeric value (without decimal). If all questions have the same value ("1", for example), they are scored equally. If you want to set different values for different questions, keep the following in mind: weights are relative to each other. So, a question with weight "2" has a value twice as high as a question with value "1". You can use this feature to give introductory questions a lower value and advanced questions a higher value.

   Time limit: Select this option to set a time limit for how long users have to answer the question. In the text box, type in the amount of time in hours:minutes:seconds format.

7. Click OK.