Captivate has always allowed you to insert question slides. However, Captivate 3 introduced a slick new type–Hot Spots– where you invite users to select the correct area of an image. Before learning how to create Hot Spot questions, it might be helpful if you see a sample of a Hot Spot question in action. Click here to watch a quick sample. After watching the sample, return here for the lesson.
Insert a Hot Spot Question Slide
- Open or create a new Captivate 3 project
- Choose Quiz > Question Slide
- Select Hot Spot from the list of Question Types
- Select either Graded Question or Survey Question and then click OK
- In the sample you previewed via the link above, I typed Hot Spot Questions Are Cool in the Name field and then typed the question as shown below into the Question field. Since this was just a single slide quiz and it was not reporting the score, I set the point to 0. In addition, since only one of the three logos shown in the sample was correct, I set the Hot Spots to 1
- Next I selected an animation to be used as the Hot Spot by clicking the Select button and opening a SWF file I liked (I was pleasantly surprised by the number of SWFs that were available in the HotSpots folder).
- On the Options tab, I set the Action to Go to next slide and I selected Infinite attempts from the If wrong answer area
- Finally, I organized/positioned the slide objects to taste. While the image below may be a bit small, you should still be able to make out the Hot Spot area that I positioned over logo 2. Also notice that I positioned the Try again and Correct captions on top of each other.
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