Forward and back buttons disappear when previewing the quiz

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January 6, 2022
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I'm using the built in fill in the blank Master Slides. When I am working in the editor there are forward and back buttons on each question but when I preview they disappear. In the quiz options section I can click "back" under buttons but I'd prefer to have these buttons that are already there show up. What can I do?

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Paul Wilson CTDP

Community Expert

The arrow buttons are only when you are reviewing the quiz. If you wish to give your learners forward and next buttons that are available during the quiz you can check the Back and Skip options under the buttons section in the QUIZ panel. If you like the arrows instead of the words Back and Skip you can replace them the same arrows from the other buttons on the master slide.

The delay in moving from the question slides your learners are on when they "Click anywhere or press 'y' key to continue" is caused by the default Actions for Success or Last Attempts. Change the Actions on the QUIZ panel for On Success from Continue to Go to the next slide. Similarly change the Last Attempt from Continue to Go to the next slide.

This will make the "Click anywhere or press 'y' key to continue" action instantaneous. When it's set to Continue the slide plays the rest of the slide before moving on. While that's only 1.5 seconds, many learners think something isn't working correctly because of the delay.

Paul Wilson, CTDP

StephanieBogDogAuthor

Known Participant

Thanks Paul, I tried to change the settings in the Question go to next slide and then I changed it to go to next slide in the global quiz preferances but they still aren't advancing.

Lilybiri

Legend

Since I have seen the screenshot of the Timeline of the quiz slides, changing Continue to Go to Next slide (which Is also mentioned in the blog post I linked to) makes not much sense, since 1.5 secs is very short. Moreover it could cause issues when transferring data to a LMS over a slow connection, or when used by multiple users. If the quiz slide is longer (due to added slide audio) this could speed up the response but a safer solution in that case is to move the pausing point closer to the end of the quiz slide (not completely at the end for the same possible slow connection issue). Also in that blog post.

Lilybiri

Legend

The buttons you are referring to are those who will appear during Review only, they are called the Review Mode Navigation buttons. At least if it has been set up that way under Quiz Preferences, Settings.

When in quiz mode, you have the Submit button, which will release the play head after the second step in the Submit process. Forward button is not necessary. Having a Back button on a quiz slide can be chosen under Quiz Preferences, Settings. However I would not recommend to do so, because answers on a quiz dslide are blocked when the learner leaves the quiz slide. If you really want to give them free navigation throughout Quiz slides you need to choose the feature Submit All under Quiz Preferences, Settings.

Understanding the Submit Process and how to set up Preferences is important when you are using any kind of quiz or Knowledge Check slides. I could offer some links to blog posts I wrote for basic quiz creation, but not sure if that is what you want?

StephanieBogDogAuthor

Known Participant

I'm having an issue where the user submits the answer and then the correct or incorrect message is shown but then when you click anywhere that message disappears and it doesn't advance to the next slide.

Lilybiri

Legend

When I go to the object style manager after choosing on of the objects in my slide it also says Blue Veracity

Why did you mention the Assets panel? Version 11.5 which you are using, allows having multiple themes in one project. That is the reason I ask to go to the quiz slide, and look in its Properties panel to see which theme has been used.

If you have indeed only been using Blue Veracity even for the quiz slides, you never used a project nor a slide from the Assets panel. You could reset Blue Veracity to its original version but that means that you lose all customisation. From what I see only on the quiz slides, that has been a lot, overriding the original theme without having saved a copy as custom theme (Themes is another important topic which is barely touched in the basic course you took).

I would propose this:

Save the theme as you have it now under another name, using the Themes menu, Save theme as. As location path use the folder where you saved the project.
To restore the original Blue Veracity theme, you need administrator rights. Find this folder:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 2019 x64\Gallery\Layouts\11_5\en_US
This is for a standard installation, with language set to en_US.
Copy BlueVeraicity.cptm from this folder.
Switch to this folder:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Adobe\eLearning Assets\Layouts\11_5\en_US
Paste the copied BlueVeracity to replace the one you have edited.

Now open a new responsive project, it will have Blue Veracity as theme. You can now copy the correct quizzing master slide to your project. Duplicate (keep the original master slide is always a safe way) it and edit it to look like the one you have now without deleting embedded objects. You can then apply it to your quiz slides.

If you see only Blank and Blue Veracity in the Public folder, that means those are the only themes you ever used so far. Look at the dates, they probably don't have the original date which should be in May 2019.

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