Adobe Presenter 6

Create a quiz

When you open the Quiz Manager for the first time, a default quiz is displayed. You can use the default quiz or add more quizzes as necessary. Follow these steps to add a quiz:

Note: If you are creating a quiz that consists of only survey questions, the user has only one chance to take the quiz. Try to keep the length of survey-only quizzes fairly short, for example, 15‑20 questions, so users can complete the survey easily.
  1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file).
  2. From the Adobe Presenter menu, select Quiz Manager. (If this is a new presentation, you must save it first before you can add a quiz.)
  3. In the Quiz Manager, click Add New Quiz.

    If you are using Microsoft Office XP, the quiz is generated after the first slide in the presentation. For presentations made with versions of Microsoft Office other than XP, the first quiz is created after the first selected slide in the PowerPoint Slide tab. In all versions of Microsoft Office, quizzes created after a first quiz are placed directly after the first quiz.

    Once quiz slides exist, you can drag the slides in the PowerPoint Slide tab to other locations in the presentation. (When moving quiz slides, check that the entire quiz is moved; moving a question slide from one quiz to another quiz is not supported.)

  4. In the New Quiz dialog box, accept the default name or enter a new name in the Name text box.
  5. From the pop‑up menu next to Required, select an option to determine if users must take or pass the quiz. When selecting an option, consider how the quiz fits in with your e‑learning strategy for the presentation. For example, you can require users to pass the quiz or allow them to skip the quiz.
    Optional
    The learner may attempt the quiz, but is not required to take the quiz.

    Required
    The learner is required to at least attempt the quiz. A quiz attempt is defined as answering (selecting or typing an answer and pressing Submit) at least 1 question in the quiz. Simply viewing a question is not considered an attempt. Until the learners answer at least 1 question in the quiz, they are not permitted to move forward in the presentation beyond the last question slide in that quiz. The required option does not, however, limit the learner from navigating among slides within a given quiz.

    Pass Required
    The learner must pass this quiz to continue. If you select this option, all navigation to any slide past the end of the quiz is prohibited until the learner achieves a passing score. This restriction affects both learner-initiated navigation (for example, clicking forward or back buttons on the playbar or clicking on a slide in the Outline pane), and author-initiated branching (for example, immediate question and quiz feedback). If you select the Pass Required option, you must show a scoring slide. The scoring slide tells learners why they cannot move past the quiz. If no scoring slide is chosen, the Pass Required option behaves the same as Optional and no navigation restrictions exist.

    Answer All
    The learner must answer every question. The questions must be answered in order and no questions can be skipped.

  6. Select the options you want to incorporate into the quiz:
    Allow backward movement
    (Optional) Enables learners to click the Back button on the playbar to move backward. If you leave this option unchecked, learners cannot move backward when taking a quiz. (This prevents learners from seeing quiz questions and then going back to earlier slides to look up correct answers.)

    Allow user to review quiz
    (Optional) Displays a Review Quiz button on the scoring slide. Learners can click the button and be taken back to the first question slide in the quiz. The learner can see their answer to each question, whether their answer is correct, and, if the selected answer was not correct, which is the correct answer. Reviewing a quiz is strictly informational; learners cannot change their answers while reviewing.

    Show score at end of quiz
    (Optional) Displays a scoring slide at the end of the quiz. You can write custom pass and fail messages, design the slide using background colors, and choose how to display the score.

    Show questions in outline
    (Optional) Displays the name of the question slide in the outline when users see the presentation in the Presenter viewer.

  7. Click the Pass or Fail Options tab.
  8. Select an option in the Pass/Fail scoring area. Specify a passing score either as a percentage (for instance, 80% correct) or a number of correct answers (for instance, 8 out of 10).
  9. Select the actions that take place when users receive a passing grade or a failing grade. For example, use the pop‑up menu next to Action and select Go To Slide to display a specific slide in response to passing or failing.
  10. Click OK.

    The quiz is added to the presentation.

    Note: If you are using the “allow backward movement” option, it is important to set the correct answering options. If “allow backward movement” is not selected (unchecked), set the Quiz Options to “answer all” and set the number of allowable quiz attempts to 1. If a quiz is set to any option other than “answer all,” select (check) the “allow backward movement” option. This prevents the situation where, if a learner is allowed to skip over a question, and the “allow backward movement” option is not selected, the learner cannot go back and answer questions they may have skipped. In most cases it is better to not select the “allow backward movement” option.
  11. Click OK again.