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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