Adobe Captivate 9 Quiz Question and Answers Animation

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HelloI'm using Adobe Captivate 9, and I have a couple of quizzes which I want to add effects to. What I want is for the slide to start off empty, then first the question appears and then the answers one by one (MCQ and sequence questions). I tried adding animation, and it worked for the question (left to motion path). However, when I try to do the same for the answers, with the same effect but making it start a few seconds later, it won't work. When I preview it nothing happens. So my problem is that effects work unless I want them to start a little later, by changing the Effect Start property. Am I doing something wrong? I'd appreciate any help.

Lilybiri · Accepted Answer

Quiz slides have very strict rules. If you want to make such a fancy quiz slide, I would recommend to create a custom question slide, using standard objects, scored interactive objects, variables and advanced/shared actions. That is the only way to have full control.

I hope you know the ins and outs of quiz slides? They will pause by default at 1,5 seconds. That pausing point will affect effects as well. Did you take that into account?

But all objects on a quiz slide are embedded, have no individual timeline which means you cannot check its appearance in the main timeline panel.

Pausing Captivate's Timeline - Captivate blog

Did a quick test, after extending the quiz slide duration and moving the pausing point.

I didn't publish, just tested in Browser and HTML5 in Browser. Question works fine in both.

SWF output: you can stagger the effects, but you have to add an Alpha from 0 to 100% before the motion effect. However, sometimes you get weird results.

HTML5 output: effects on answers don't show up.

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