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Quiz Success/Failure: How to use Captions instead of Shapes?

Community Beginner ,
Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Hi,

wie kann ich bei den Quiz-Meldungen (Success/Failure/...) Beschriftungen (Captions?) statt Smartshapes verwenden? Ich habe ein bereits fertiges Projekt (von einer Kollegin erstellt), in dem dies der Fall ist (sie konnte mir leider nicht erklären, wie es dazu kam) - aber ich schaffe es nicht, das in einem neuen Projekt selbst zu erstellen. Die Formatierung soll aber identisch sein - das ist leider so nicht möglich (ich benötigen den Beschriftungstyp "Frozen").

 

In den Voreinstellungen kann ich nur die Smartshapes auswählen, keine Beschriftung. Im Objektmanager kann ich beides bearbeiten, aber nur die Smartshapes werden verwendet.

Ich habe in den Voreinstellungen die Option "Textbeschriftung für SFH-Beschriftung statt Smartformen verwenden" aktiviert, nachdem ich in Blog post zum Quiz davon gelesen habe - das hat leider nichts geändert (vielleicht habe ich auch nicht alles richtig verstanden).

 

Vielen Dank!

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Community Expert ,
Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Whow, I am learning the Captivate German terminology. Textbeschriftung = caption?

This is also a very old and painful bug in the UI, where I have given up trying to have it corrected. I try to explain why I consider this to be a bug:

  1.  The change in Preferences for SFH (Success, Failure, Hint) is only valid for the messages which pop up for interactive objects. They will not be applied to the feedback messages in quiz nor Knowledge Check slides.
  2.  The Object Styles in the Quizzing category still have the Success/Failure captions and you can edit them, but unless you succeed at finding a very old theme which still has feedback captions in the Quizzing master slides, those objects will not be used.
  3.  Quiz Preferences, Default labels still refer to Captions for the feedback messages although they are never used, it will be shapes. This is a serious bug IMO but apparently not serious enough to repair.

 

So far the only solution is like cheating: make the shapes for feedback look like the caption in the older projects. I see that it is 'Frosted' which has been used, correct? Not so easy to mimick in a shape. Are all the captions using Frosted, this was the Success message, what about Failure and Retry, and eventually Partial Correct?

 

A possibility is to create a caption with the same size as the feedback message and take a screenshot of the caption to get its 'image'. Go to the used quizzing master slides and fill the shapes with that image, you can still have the text on top. Or make the shape transparent - fill and stroke set to 0 - and put the image of the caption under the transparent shape. Once you have done this for the quizzing master slides, you can reset the master slide on existing quiz slides, and it will also be done for new quiz slides. Only possible problem: if you use Fluid Boxes in a responsive project which I couldn't detect from the screenshots.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Hallo Lilybiri,

und ich lerne die Captivate bugs kennen 😉 (ob "Textbeschriftung = caption" korrekt ist, bin ich nicht sicher - ich vermute, es ist bei Captivate so... generell eher nicht)

Danke für die Erklärungen und deine Lösungsvorschläge! Jetzt weiß ich auch, was "SFH" bedeutet...

Ja, alle SFH-captions verwenden "Frosted" als Design. Die Optik eines Smartshapes auf "Frosted" anzupassen, klappt leider nicht so richtig gut. Ich überlege ob ich die Masterfolie ändere (Bild als Shape oder als Hintergrund) oder ob ich die eingefügten Quizfolien ändere. Folgendes funktioniert nämlich:

Wenn ich in der Quizfolie die Success/Failure-Meldungen auf 0 (keine) setze und dann wieder ergänze (den Haken setze), wird die Textbeschriftung mit Frosted-Design eingefügt. Ich weiß nicht, warum... Aber dann geht es. Trotzdem ist es wahrscheinlich mehr Arbeit als einmal die Master-Quizfolien zu ändern.

PS: Fluid Boxes verwende ich nicht.

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Community Expert ,
Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Know that I am often smiling or laughing at the translations of Captivate's terminology in French, and now in German. That is the problem when translation is done by translators who don't know the application or the meaning of the terminology (my brother was translator in European institute).

What you now claim is really weird: if you take out the Failure and Success messages in Quiz Properties, you see captions appearing? I really need to test this out (have around 50 blog posts about Quizzing), after some urgent work.

Master slides are part of the theme. Can you tell me which Theme you use? Themes have been changed a lot in version 11.5.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Genau, wenn ich die SFH-Meldungen entferne (Haken weg bei "Richtig" und "Unvollständig" und "Fehlermeldungen: Keine" und dann wieder einsetze (Haken rein und Fehlermeldungen: 1), werden die Shapes durch die Captions ersetzt. Auf den Screenshots sieht man es nicht so gut, weil ich versucht habe, die Shapes in der Farbe an "Frozen" anzupassen, aber es ist tatsächlich so.

Ich habe ursprünglich das Design "Blue Veracity" als Grundlage verwendet, dann aber mein eigenes erstellt.

 

Was ich auch nicht verstehe: Die Beschriftung der SFH-Meldungen hatte ich geändert ("Richtig!" und "Leider falsch." - s. Screenshot). Das scheint aber nicht im Folienmaster auf, wo ja die SFH als Smartshapes eingefügt sind. In den Voreinstellungen wird der geänderte Text aber als Standardstil-Erfolgs-/Fehler-"Beschriftung" bezeichnet (deshalb habe ich dann auch den richtigen Text, wenn ich wie beschrieben die SFH-Meldungen zuerst wegnehme und dann wieder einfüge).

PS: Ich liebe Linguistik 🙂

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Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Sorry, da hat ein Screenshot gefehlt: Ich habe die Smartshapes transparent gestaltet (um evtl. die "Frozen"-Beschriftung als Bild darunter zu legen).

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Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Even more confusing. Default labels (Standardbeschriftungen in German) in that dialog box for the captions (look at the full name Standardstil... but show up in the shapes which are the default. 

As for the Master slides: they don't always show the changes in the default labels. Since those labels are in the Quiz Preferences, and I need often to create tutorials in English, French, Dutch, I have a set of Preferences ready for each of those languages to import. Those translated labels will not show up in the master slides, but they will be applied to new created quiz or Knowledge check slides.

BTW since you did edit the Blue Veracity theme, I hope that you did save the custom Theme (using the menu Theme) in a different location of the default themes.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Ja, schwer nachvollziehbar - vor allem wenn man noch nicht so tief in Captivate eingestiegen ist wie ich. Aber mit der Zeit finde ich mich besser zurecht in "Captivate-Land", auch wenn es eine sehr eigene Kultur ist 😉

Zum Design (Theme): Ja, ich habe es in einem eigenen Ordner (unter meinen Dateien) gespeichert (habe vorher deinen Blog gelesen!). Warum ist das eigentlich wichtig?

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Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Zum ursprünglichen Problem:

Wenn ich das "Frozen"-Caption als Bild einfüge, erscheint das ja von Anfang an in der Folie - und nicht erst wenn auf "Senden" geklickt wird. Das möchte ich natürlich nicht.

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Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Sure, my bad... you should have to customize and that is too much work. You need to use the first workflow: fill the shape with an image of the caption you want (without the text). Have a look at this example of a quizzing master slide, where I have filled three shapes with an image of the Frost styled caption:

MasterQuiz.PNG

You can now save the theme and apply it to all the projects where you want to use this trick.

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Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Linguistik 🙂 Now I am laughing at the combination of 'tief' with 'eingestiegen'. Understood?

Could you figure it out with filling the shapes with an image taken from the Froze caption?

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Apr 18, 2023 Apr 18, 2023

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Now I am laughing at the combination of 'tief' with 'eingestiegen'. Understood?

Deutsch ist manchmal eben eine seltsame Sprache 😉

 

Could you figure it out with filling the shapes with an image taken from the Froze caption?

Ja, das hat geklappt, danke!

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Apr 18, 2023 Apr 18, 2023

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Great! Hope you don't mind if I use your 'discovery' in a blog post about the workflow for feedback messages in quiz slides? I will for sure mention that you found that behavior of replacing shapes by caption by disabling and re-enabling the feedback messages. But I want to explain how to make a shape look like a caption, because the shapes are on the master slides.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 21, 2023 Apr 21, 2023

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Natürlich! Dann kann ich mich ein wenig für deine Hilfe revanchieren 😉 Eine Namensnennung möchte ich gar nicht.

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Apr 21, 2023 Apr 21, 2023

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Danke, Kathrin.

 

I will not mention your name, but would like to point to this thread. Most users will not follow that link, and probably will not like to view our language switches neither. Is that OK? 

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Apr 21, 2023 Apr 21, 2023

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Klar, sehr gerne!

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Apr 21, 2023 Apr 21, 2023

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Blog post will be there today... I will also show how to use the Object Style Manager as alternative to change the default message styles for the shapes, so that they look like the captions. The Master slides show only three possible messages (Failure, Retry and Success), there are 4 more in the OSM which you cannot edit from the master slides.

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Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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OK, I was able to reproduce your trick, which can be used to replace the shapes by a caption? For the sake of English speaking users, these are the steps for an existing quiz slide:

  1.  In Quiz Properties, set the Failure message to None, and take out all other messages (Success, Retry, Incompleete) by unchecking them. The shapes with the messages will disappear.
  2.  Re-acitvate the messages you want, and set the Failure messages to 1/2 or 3. You'll see that the shapes will not reappear but you'll get the default captions as specified in the Object Style Manager, Quizzing category.

If the shape had an edited message (from Quiz Preferences, Default labels), the caption takes over that message for me. You tell me that is not the case for you?

The edited message will not appear in the master slides, nor will the captions appear which is annoying. I already mentioned that is the case also when you have translated the default labels.

 

 

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If the shape had an edited message (from Quiz Preferences, Default labels), the caption takes over that message for me. You tell me that is not the case for you?

 

Doch, das funktioniert auch bei mir, nur eben nicht in der Master-Folie, wie du geschrieben hast. Das ist nicht schlimm, nur verwirrend.

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Apr 17, 2023 Apr 17, 2023

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Yeah, I am used to this due to my experiences with localising quizzes. At least the Captivate team did listen and added a lot of labels to the Default labels because in earlier versions not all were present.

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