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Creating a Quiz
Last updated 9/28/2011
Fill-in-the-blank question slides
1 Insert the fill-in-the-blank question slide (Quiz > Question Slide > Fill-In-The-Blank).
2 To specify the word or a phrase that users need to fill out, do one or all of the following:
• Select a word or phrase, and click Mark Blank in the Quiz Properties panel.
• Type your question in such a way that the answer (a word or a phrase) replaces the word ‘blank’.
3 To provide multiple options that your users can choose from:
a Double click the word/phrase that is marked blank and then use the + button to add additional words/phrases
that correctly fills in the blank.
b Select Dropdown list instead of User Input.
c Check the words/phrases that correctly fills in the blank.
d Select Shuffle Answ... if you want the choices to appear in a different order each time the user returns to this
question.
Short-answer question slides
1 Insert the fill-in-the-blank question slide (Quiz > Question Slide > Short Answer).
2 On stage, double-click the placeholder question to replace it with your question.
3 Double-click inside the answer box that is just below the question. The Correct Entries box appears.
4 Type the sentence or the phrases that constitute correct answers. Use the + button to add multiple entries.
Matching question slides
1 Insert a matching question slide (Quiz > Question Slide > Matching).
2 In Column 1, click the placeholder text ‘type the item here’. You see that a drop down list appears adjacent to the
placeholder text. This list helps you specify the correct match for your questions. When your users answer the
question, the answer is validated against the correct answer you specify in this list.
3 Double-click the placeholder text to replace it with the word or phrase to be matched.
4 In Column 2, double click ‘type the answer here’ to replace it with the answer choices. Do not specify the correct
match in Column 2; use the drop-down list to specify the correct match.
5 To add more rows to the columns, specify the required number in the Column 1 and Column 2 fields in the General
accordion of the Quiz Properties panel.
6 If you want the choices to appear in a different order each time the user returns to this question, click Shuffle
Column 1 in the Quiz Properties panel.
Hotspot question slides
Hotspot slides contain areas that the user must identify. For example, you can ask the user to identify company
products from images displayed on the slide.
Answers to hotspot questions are correct if all the correct hotspots are clicked and none of the incorrect hotspots are
clicked.
1 Insert a hotspot question slide (Quiz > Question Slide > Hot Spot).
The default hotspot slide contains placeholder text for the question and one hotspot area represented by a rectangle.
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