I would like to insert a button next to each multichoice option, (or use the hint box) as a link that goes to another slide showing the learner some visual stuff that helps them answer the question.

[estherau]

Is it possible? I can make a shape button but it only gives options on success. What if I want the user to look at some other slides before answering the question, when the user clicks on different alternative answers?

[Lilybiri]

You posted a similar question on my blog post about Buttons on Question slides.

Maybe you'd better first read some other blog posts about Question slides, because they have very strict rules. If you leave a question slide the attempts for that question slide will automatically be considered exhausted. There is one exception: the Remediation feature, where the user can be sent to a content slide after having failed the question. From that content slide he can be navigated back to the question slide and be able to change the answer until it is correct. This is not what you are looking for.

Question Question Slides in Captivate - Captivate blog

Question Question Slides - Part 2 - Captivate blog

The problem is not about the shape buttons on the question slide, but about Question slide rules/design. If you want this type of control you have to create custom question slides, using standard objects, variables, advanced/shared actions. You could find several examples on my blog as well.

What do you mean by 'it only give options On Success'? If you are talking about the possible events for a shape button, you'll find all events here:

Events and (advanced) Actions - Captivate blog

[estherau]

Hi Lilibiri,

well instead of having a hint as a text, I wanted a pictorial hint.  That's what I was hoping for anyway. I was hoping the user could click on each alternative, or a button next to the atlernative, on the multichoice to get a visual clue, including for the correct answer.  ie I was hoping to put a clue button next to each multichoice alternative so that the user could look and learn before attempting that slide and submitting.

I don't mind infinite attempts, so the attempts for the question won't get exhausted I don't think.

The only way I have been able to do it is put a jump to slide command when the alternative is submitted.  So if the learner clicks the correct answer first go, then they never get to see the other alternatives.

I've only been playing with the trial version of captivate a few weeks now, so i'm very new, and I have no programming experience at all.

I wish there were some normal multichoice slides that weren't quiz slides included in the masterslides templates as I wouldn't need to score these questions,  so that I could use buttons.  they are more for teaching.  I'm sure I could eventually make one but it would be difficult.  The only buttons I can see on the quiz slides depend on having success.

Kind regards,

riesa

[Lilybiri]

There are many possibilities, you don't need to use a MCQ slide in that case at all. What is always puzzling for me is a newbie who wants to get into advanced features before knowing anything about Captivate's basics. It feels like driving the 24 hrs of Le Mans after reading an introduction about 'How to drive a car', or maybe only have bought that book without reading it. Sorry for the rant. You don't know that the buttons on default question slides are embedded, they are totally different from the normal interactive objects that you can add to a slide. That is why I offered you two links to blog posts about questions. They don't have an event, they have built-in functionality. The Submit button triggers a two-step submit process, described in that blog post.

A Success event for a normal button/shape button/click box will trigger the action if that object has been clicked. The Failure event will trigger its action when the user clicks outside of the interactive object.

You can use rollover Images on question slides. The actions in Captivate do not need programming skills, they are point-and-click.

[estherau]

Yes, I know I'm trying to walk before I can run, but I am fairly short of time to get my quiz finished, and I assumed it would be really dead easy to put a link to another slide next to a multichoice option.  Well rollover images might actually do, but I thought the quiz things are always on top. But I could change that with masterslides I suppose.

Kind regards,

Riesa

[Lilybiri]

Yes, all quiz items are always on top, no way to change that. It is creating custom question slides that you need. You can use the radiobuttons interaction to simulate a MCQ.

Tips - Learning Interactions - Captivate blog

[estherau]

Ah yes, I thought that might be the case.