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jasonk94712069
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November 11, 2020
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Four Audio Clips on Quiz Slide?

  • November 11, 2020
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I have a lot of experience with Captivate ten years ago. Articulate and Storyline in the intervening years. The demise of Flash changes the way things work.

Now I want to build some training for piano technicians. I have Captivate 2019. One question type I am trying to create is a multiple-choice question with four audio buttons, each button playing a different piano sound. Questions might be "Which of these intervals is a major sixth?" .. click button A, B, C, or D to hear the different intervals, then select answer A, B, C, or D.
Quiz questions can't have interactive objects? How do I get around this?
I just tried a different approach: creating an image slide with hotpots on the images of sound buttons A, B, C, and D, and attaching sounds to the hotspots. Then hotspots for each of the answers A, B, C, D, and these generate the normal "incorrect" or "correct" feedback. But I need four different sounds and it seems that the whole family of hotspots shares the same sound?
There will be several other such question types that will have several sounds activated by button-like objects. I do hope there's a way to do it, else I've wasted my subscription.

Any help? Many thanks in advance.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    November 11, 2020

    Some details are missing. Which exact version of CP2019 do you use? There have been 6 releases. You find the full version number under Help, About Captivate.

    Do you need to transfer the score to a LMS? That is also very important.

    I have some ideas how to realize this, but want to explore them fully before posting an answer.  Especially the answer about the LMS is important.

    You missed a lot of new features in 10 years:

    1. You can add shape buttons and images used as buttons to a quiz slide.
    2. There is a command 'Play Audio' which can be triggered by any event, also by clicking a button or an image. I don't know why you tell that all use the same sound?  Maybe time to explore first the new version before concluding that it is worthless.

    Have two solutions in mind, one by tweaking the default MCQ slide, another with a custom question slide. BTW I am a professional musician (flute).

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    jasonk94712069Author
    Participant
    November 11, 2020

    Thanks for responding, Lieve, I hoped you would. I've been reading your
    blog in the last few days.
    Captivate version 11.5.1.499.
    We will probably use Captivate Prime with (maybe) 50 seats? But yes most
    likely there will be an LMS.
    I don't think it's worthless, have just started playing with it, but have
    not yet discovered how to attach different sounds to different objects on a
    MCQ or a hotspot question. I created 8 hotspots, applied a sound to one of
    them (on success play audio) and then that sound is called by all of them.
    Now it's trial and error, or ask Lieve. Just get me started please.
    Once the question type is designed, there will be a large library of such
    audio questions and it may be nice to organize the library of sounds and
    reuse them sometimes.
    Thanks again..
    Jason

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    November 12, 2020

    Hi Jason,

    Please do not put your credentials on a public forum, as a moderator I took them out this time.

    You may know that I live in Europe...

    There is an update to your version, most recent version is 11.5.5.553.

    I will write out a blog for your sake with a step-by-step explanation. Since you want to report to a LMS, tweaking a quiz slide will be the most appropriate way, because you'll keep most features of those quiz slide. Will try to do it today.

     

    You may store the audio clips in a dedicated Captivate project, and use them as external library in any project. If you want randomness, create some question pools. Here are some reading links;

    http://blog.lilybiri.com/internal-and-external-libraries

    http://blog.lilybiri.com/random-questions-dos-and-donts

     

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