Adobe Captivate 2: Advanced Question Slide Editing

Inserting Question Slides in Adobe Captivate 2 is no trick. You simply choose Insert > Question slide, select your Question Type and click OK. However, there’s a feature available to any Question Slide that you may not have found on your own. You can specify an Action for every answer that can branch a user to any of the following destinations:

• Previous slide
• Next slide
• Any slide in the project
• A Web site (URL) or file
• Another Captivate project
• Send an e-mail
• or Execute a JavaScript

In the following example, I’ll demonstrate how to send answers in a Multiple Choice Question Slide to different slides in a project (a technique known as Branching).

1. Open or create a Captivate project
2. Choose Insert > Question slide
3. Select the Multiple Choice Question type
4. Click Create Graded Question

   The Question dialog box appears where you can create both the Question and Answers
   

5. Type the Question into the Question Area
6. Type your answers into the Answer area

   Now you will specify where each of the answers should go as the user selects the answers
   

7. Click the Advanced button
8. Select Advanced Question Options
9. Select Jump to slide from the Action list

   

10. Select any of the other slides in your project as the destination slide (that slide should contain a button that allows users to return to the Question Slide should they click the wrong answer)
11. Click OK

    Now you will set up your Question Slide so that users will have multiple attempts to answer the question correctly.
    

12. Click the Options tab
13. Select  Infinite attempts from the If wrong answer area
14. Click OK

Click here to see an example of a Question slide using this technique. And click here to see other Captivate sample projects.