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meesh36
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March 2, 2018
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Captivate 2017 Quiz Master Slide

  • March 2, 2018
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Is there an easy way to make changes to the Master Slide of a MC/TF/FIB quiz question (specifically the answer area)?

I have large banks that I need to import. The import is working well but the answer boxes are not sized to see all the text (some gets cut off at the second line). The bank I'm playing with currently has 100 questions. Adobe really can't have meant for you to adjust every question slide answer text. Please tell me I'm just missing something.

Thank you in advance for your help

Michelle

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
March 2, 2018

An old pain.... I know.

The individual answers have no placeholder in the quizzing master slides, only the answer area can be changed. You can increase the leading (line spacing) but that is certainly not always a solution. Try to keep the answers as short as possibble so that they fit in one line. That is the best way to limit editing of individual slides. If necessary change the object style of the answers, to decrease the font size.

I really hope that formatting of quiz answers will make it to the top of the list of feature requests. It is even worse when you are creating responsive projects. Have a look at my analysis of the quizzing master slides with fluid boxes:

Tips for 'Fluid' Quiz Slides - Captivate blog

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meesh36Author
Participant
March 13, 2018

Unfortunately what I ended up having to do it create a template from a mostly made template, create a script to format the questions to GIFT format. I then import and have to tweak every question in the bank to make them readable. The subject matter isn't such that they can all be one line distractor/answers. It's still better than the alternative but what used to be an hour process has turned into a week long process based on how busy things get in the office.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
March 13, 2018

Do never use a template, please. There are too much issues with cptl-files at thie moment. For that reason I will unmakr your answer as being correct, it will confuse too many people.

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