Adobe Presenter 6

Creating quizzes and questions

You can use Adobe Presenter to create interactive e‑learning presentations that are SCORM or AICC compliant for use with a learning management system.When you create e‑learning content for presentations, you can create a combination of quizzes and questions.

Quizzes are the “containers” that hold questions. You can use the Quiz Manager to create a single quiz for a presentation or multiple quizzes in a single presentation. Then you add questions to the quiz or quizzes. You can add graded questions, survey questions, or a combination of both to each quiz. Quizzes are assigned an Objective ID, a number that specifies an objective set in your learning management system or Connect Enterprise Server. Using quizzes and their default Objective IDs is the best way to coordinate Presenter presentations with Connect Enterprise Server and content that already exists.

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The Quiz Manager lets you organize all of the quizzes and questions in a presentation.

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A quiz

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Different types of questions

When you create a question, a new slide is added to your presentation. The new slide’s design is based on the master slide template (a PowerPoint feature), so the question slide will look like the other slides in your presentation.

You can design six types of questions in Presenter: multiple-choice, short-answer, matching, true-or-false, rating scale (Likert), and fill-in-the-blank questions. You can grade the questions or use them in surveys to gather information.

Branching in quizzes

Branching is an important concept in creating effective e‑learning materials and a useful way to customize presentations. In branched presentations (sometimes called “contingency branching”), the path that users take through a quiz or survey is determined by their responses to questions. For instance, you can create branches based on correct answers, incorrect answers, options selected by the user, or the users’s experience, job description, level, or any other category. Depending on these factors, you can continue the presentation, jump to a specific slide, open a URL, and so on.

Through branching, you can specify what happens when users answer questions correctly or incorrectly. For example, you can associate one action (such as “Go to the next slide”) to a correct answer and another (such as “Open URL”) to an incorrect answer.

Reporting

Reporting lets you track student performance with any type of quiz. You can track the number of attempts, log correct and incorrect responses, and send pass/fail data to Connect Enterprise Server. You can also choose to provide students with feedback based upon correct or incorrect responses.

Tips for creating quizzes and questions

Here are a few tricks and tips to try when adding quizzes to your presentation:

  • When creating a matching question, drag items between the two columns to establish the correct matches.

  • Try customizing feedback messages to accurately communicate with presentation users.

  • Experiment with branching to customize presentations for different types of users.

  • Consider adding custom audio feedback based on how users answer questions. You can select different audio for a correct answer and an incorrect answer.

  • Try editing the settings in the Show Score at End of Quiz option. You can write custom pass and fail messages, design the slide using background colors, and choose how to display the score.

  • Always create questions in the Quiz Manager. For example, while in PowerPoint, do not copy a quiz slide in the left pane and paste to create a “new” quiz slide. This results in two slides with the same interaction ID, which is not supported by learning management systems.

  • If a change is made in the question by editing the slide contents, open the Quiz Manager once before publishing the presentation. Quiz validation and updating is done only when the Quiz Manager is opened.

  • Change the text formatting of quiz questions after the entire quiz is generated. For example, you can create and generate the quiz, and then use the PowerPoint Format menu to change the font size. If question text is formatted and then the Quiz Manager is opened, the formatting may be lost because the Quiz Manager usually renders the question again if there have been any changes.