Quizmaker 360: Adding Content Library 360 Photos
Find the perfect media assets for your quizzes. Choose from 20+ million Content Library 360 photos, illustrations, icons, and videos that you can access right from Quizmaker 360. All assets are royalty-free with no attribution required. In this article, you’ll learn how to add gorgeous Content Library 360 photos to your quizzes. Adding Content Library 360 Photos to Your Quiz Swapping Out Photos Adding Content Library 360 Photos to Your Quiz In Slide View, press Ctrl+Shift+J to open the Content Library 360 media browser or go to the Insert tab on the ribbon and click Photos in the Content Library 360 group. Type a search term in the field at the top of the media browser and press Enter. (Tip: The browser remembers your last search term during the current session.) Zoom in and out by using the zoom slider in the lower left corner or by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and scrolling your mouse wheel. If you want to find a different type of media after opening the browser, use the drop-down list in the upper right corner to switch to another type: photos, illustrations, icons, or videos. Select the photo you want to use and click Insert to add it your slide. You can select multiple photos at the same time using Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click, and then insert them all at once. Swapping Out Photos You can swap out one image for another and keep the same formatting and animations. Here are three ways to do so. Right-Click the Image Right-click any image in your quiz, scroll to Change Picture, and choose Content Library 360 Photos. When the Content Library 360 browser opens, browse for a new photo and click Insert. Use the Format Tab on the Ribbon Select any image in your quiz, go to the Format tab on the ribbon, click the Change Picture drop-down arrow, and choose Content Library 360 Photos. When the Content Library 360 browser opens, browse for a new photo and click Insert. Use Picture Placeholders If your quiz is built with picture placeholders, you can delete a picture you previously added to a placeholder and add another one in its place. Click the Insert Content Library 360 Photo icon in the placeholder. When the Content Library 360 browser opens, browse for a new photo and click Insert. You Might Also Want to Explore: Formatting Pictures, Screenshots, and Characters Ordering, Grouping, Sizing, and Positioning ObjectsQuizmaker 360: Adding Content Library 360 Illustrations
Illustrate your points with images from Content Library 360. Find the perfect pictures for your quizzes from 20+ million Content Library 360 assets that you can access right from Quizmaker 360. All assets are royalty-free with no attribution required. In this article, you’ll learn how to add beautiful Content Library 360 illustrations to your quizzes. Adding Illustrations to Your Quiz Swapping Out Illustrations Adding Illustrations to Your Quiz Go to the Insert tab on the ribbon and click Illustrations in the Content Library 360 group. Type a search term in the field at the top of the media browser and press Enter. (Tip: The browser remembers your last search term during the current session.) Zoom in and out by using the zoom slider in the lower left corner or by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and scrolling your mouse wheel. And if you want to look for a different type of media after opening the browser, use the drop-down list in the upper right corner to switch to another type: photos, illustrations, icons, or videos. Select the illustration you want to use and click Insert to add it your slide. You can select multiple illustrations at the same time using Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click, then insert them all at once. Swapping Out Illustrations You can swap out one illustration for another without losing existing formatting, animations, or triggers. We describe three ways to do so below. Right-Click the Illustration Right-click any image in your quiz, scroll to Change Picture, and choose Content Library 360 Photos. When the Content Library 360 browser opens, use the drop-down list in the upper right corner to switch to Illustrations. Browse for a new illustration and click Insert. Use the Format Tab on the Ribbon Select any image in your course, go to the Format tab on the ribbon, click the Change Picture drop-down arrow, and choose Content Library 360 Photos. When the Content Library 360 browser opens, use the drop-down list in the upper right corner to switch to Illustrations. Browse for a new illustration and click Insert. Use Content Placeholders If your course is built with content placeholders, you can delete an illustration you previously added to a placeholder and add another one in its place. Here’s how: Click the Insert Content Library 360 Media icon in the placeholder. When the Content Library 360 browser opens, use the drop-down list in the upper right corner to switch to Illustrations. Browse for a new illustration and click Insert. You Might Also Want to Explore: Formatting Pictures, Screenshots, and Characters Ordering, Grouping, Sizing, and Positioning ObjectsQuizmaker 360: Adding Content Library 360 Icons
Find the perfect icons for your quizzes. Choose from 20+ million Content Library 360 assets that you can access right from Quizmaker 360. All assets are royalty-free with no attribution required. In this article, you’ll learn how to add eye-catching icons to your quizzes. You can even customize icons with your own colors and effects. Adding Icons to Your Quiz Customizing Icons Adding Icons to Your Quiz Go to the Insert tab on the ribbon and click Icons in the Content Library 360 group. Type a search term in the field at the top of the media browser and press Enter. (Tip: The browser remembers your last search term during the current session.) Zoom in and out by using the zoom slider in the lower left corner or by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and scrolling your mouse wheel. And if you want to look for a different type of media after opening the browser, use the drop-down list in the upper right corner to switch to another type: photos, illustrations, icons, or videos. Select the icon you want to use and click Insert to add it your slide. You can select multiple icons at the same time using Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click, then insert them all at once. Customizing Icons After adding an icon into your quiz, you can customize its colors to match your quiz design. Just select the icon on the slide, go to the Format tab on the ribbon, and use the style galleries to edit the fill color, outline color, and effects. For example, here’s the same icon with different styles. And if an icon is composed of more than one shape, you can ungroup it and format each shape individually. Just right-click the icon, scroll to Group, and click Ungroup to see all the components that make up the icon. Here’s an example of an ungrouped icon. You can tell if an icon is one shape or many by right-clicking it. If the Group option is grayed out, the icon is a single shape. If the Group option is active, the icon has multiple shapes. Here’s an example of a multi-shape icon. The original icon on the left has no formatting. The same icon in the middle has been recolored all at once (without ungrouping it). And the same icon again, but this time ungrouped, with specific formatting for each component is on the right. You Might Also Want to Explore: Formatting Shapes, Captions, and Text Boxes Ordering, Grouping, Sizing, and Positioning ObjectsQuizmaker 360: Adding Content Library 360 Videos
Content Library 360 has 10.3+ million high-resolution photos, illustrations, icons, and videos that you can access right from Quizmaker 360. All assets are royalty-free with no attribution required. In this article, you’ll learn how to add Content Library 360 videos to your quizzes. Adding Content Library 360 Videos to Your Quiz Swapping Out Videos Using Content Library 360 Photos as Video Poster Frames Adding Content Library 360 Videos to Your Quiz Go to the Insert tab on the ribbon and click Videos in the Content Library 360 group. Type a search term in the field at the top of the media browser and press Enter. (Tip: The browser remembers your last search term during the current session.) Zoom in and out by using the zoom slider in the lower left corner or by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and scrolling your mouse wheel. And if you want to look for a different type of media after opening the browser, use the drop-down list in the upper right corner to switch to another type: photos, illustrations, icons, or videos. To preview a video before you add it to your quiz, click the Preview button that appears when your mouse hovers over a video thumbnail. Select the video you want to use and click Insert to add it your slide. You can select multiple videos at the same time using Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click, then insert them all at once. Swapping Out Videos You can swap out one video for another and keep your video properties intact. Here are two ways to do so. Right-Click the Video Right-click any video in your quiz, scroll to Change Video, and choose Content Library 360 Videos. When the Content Library 360 browser opens, browse for a new video and click Insert. Use Video Placeholders If your quiz is built with video placeholders, you can delete a video you previously added to a placeholder and add another one in its place. Here’s how: Click the Insert Content Library 360 Video icon in the placeholder. When the Content Library 360 browser opens, browse for a new video and click Insert. Using Content Library 360 Photos as Video Poster Frames If you don’t auto-play a video in your quiz, learners will see the first frame of the video as its placeholder until it begins to play. If you’d like to display a different video placeholder, you can insert a picture file or a Content Library 360 photo. This image is called the video’s poster frame. To use a Content Library 360 photo as a poster frame: Right-click the video, scroll to Set Poster Frame, and choose Content Library 360 Photos. When the Content Library 360 browser opens, choose either Photos or Illustrations from the file-type drop-down list in the upper right corner. Browse for the image you want to use as the poster frame and click Insert. If you change your mind, right-click the video again and choose Remove Poster Frame. You Might Also Want to Explore: Adding Videos from Files, Websites, and Webcams Editing Videos Adjusting Video PropertiesQuizmaker 360: Replacing Fonts
Quizmaker360 lets you quickly replace one font with another throughout your quiz. Simply choose the font you want to replace and the font you want to use instead, and Quizmakerwill swap out every instance of the font for you. Go to the Home tab on the Quizmakerribbon, click the drop-down arrow beside Find/Replace, and choose Replace Fonts. Use the Replace drop-down list to select the font you want to replace. You’ll only see the fonts currently in use in your quiz. Then use the With drop-down list to choose a new font. Click Replace. If you want to replace another font while the Replace Fonts window is still open, repeat steps 2-4. When you’re done, click Close to exit the window.Quizmaker 360: Previewing and Publishing a Quiz
You can preview how your quiz will look and behave on different devices and orientations with Quizmaker 360’s new responsive preview options. Then publish your quiz to HTML5for a variety of platforms, including web servers and learning management systems. Watch this video introduction to learn how, then follow the activities below to practice. Practice Activities: Preview Your Quiz Choose a Publish Option Adjust the Publish Settings Publish and Distribute Your Quiz Practice Activity: Preview Your Quiz Quizmaker 360 uses responsive preview to show you how your quiz will look and behave on any device and orientation just by clicking a button. Open PracticeQuiz.quiz from your practice files. Click Preview on the Quizmaker ribbon. Then click each device icon in the upper right corner of the preview window to see how your quiz looks and behaves on each device and orientation. Click Close Preview when you’re done. To learn more about responsive preview, see this user guide. To learn more about restricting which device orientations learners can use when viewing your quiz, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Choose a Publish Option Quizmaker 360 supports several publish options, described below. For this tutorial, let’s publish toReview 360where you can collaborate with stakeholders and subject matter experts. Open PracticeQuiz.quiz from your practice files. Go to the Home tab on the ribbon and click Publish to launch the publishing wizard. Click the Review 360 tab on the left side of the window. Before we continue, here’s some quick info on each publishing option: Articulate Presenter Articulate Presenter 360 is the fastest, easiest way to create multi-device, presentation-based courses using PowerPoint’s familiar interface. You can create dynamic quizzes and surveys in Quizmaker 360, then publish them directly into your Presenter 360 courses. To learn more about publishing quizzes to Presenter 360, see this user guide. Review 360 Publish quizzes toReview 360 to test how they look on various devices and to collect feedback from stakeholders with an easy-to-use web interface. To learn more about publishing quizzes toReview360, see this user guide. Web If you want learners to access quizzes over the internet or a private intranet, and if you don’t need to track their progress, then publish for web distribution. To learn more about publishing quizzes for web servers, see this user guide. Articulate Online Articulate Online is our hosted tracking and reporting system for e-learning content. Publish quizzes to Articulate Online when you need an efficient, cost-effective way to track learners’ progress and results. To learn more about publishing quizzes to Articulate Online, see this user guide. LMS Choose the LMS publishing format if you're using a learning management system (LMS) to track learners' progress and results. To learn more about publishing quizzes for AICC, SCORM, and Tin Can API LMSs, see this user guide. CD Choose the CD publishing format when you need to distribute quizzes via CD, DVD, USB drive, network drive, kiosk, or email. To learn more about publishing quizzes for CD or other local media, see this user guide. Word Publish for Microsoft Word when you need a printable version of your quiz. It’s a convenient way to distribute handouts or provide a transcript for accessibility purposes. To learn more about publishing quizzes to Microsoft Word, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Adjust the Publish Settings After choosing a publish option, adjust the settings, such as title, description, publish location, mobile options, quality, tracking options, and LMS specification. For details, see the user guide for each publishing option listed above. Since we’re publishing toReview 360 in this tutorial, configure these settings: Select Create a new item and enter a title for your quiz in the corresponding text field. If you’d like to make any last-minute changes to the player or quality settings before publishing, click these properties and make your adjustments. Practice Activity: Publish and Distribute Your Quiz Now you’re ready to complete the publishing process. Click the Publish button at the bottom of the publishing wizard. When the process is complete, you’ll see a Publish Successful window with one or more follow-up options, depending on the publish option you selected. Since we published toReview360 in this tutorial, you’ll see an option to view the published quiz in your Articulate 360 account in your default web browser. To learn more about the follow-up options and distribution instructions for each publish option, see these user guides: Articulate Presenter Review 360 Web Articulate Online LMS CD Word Summary In this tutorial, you learned how to use Quizmaker 360’s stunning responsive preview features to see how your mobile-ready quiz looks and behaves on computers, tablets, and smartphones. And you published a quiz toReview360 where you can collect feedback from stakeholders. For answers to common questions about publishing quizzes for mobile devices, see this user guide.Quizmaker 360: Customizing the Quiz Player
In Quizmaker 360, the player refers to the interface around the perimeter of your quiz slides. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to customize the quiz player. You can choose which features appear on the player, modify the colors and font, change the text labels, adjust the size, and control how the quiz behaves when learners launch it more than once. You can even make the player invisible. Watch this video introduction, then follow the activities below to practice. Practice Activities: Open the Player Properties Choose Your Player Features Customize the Question List Change the Colors, Font, and Font Size Customize the Text Labels Change the Player Size and Resume Behavior Save Your Customized Player Practice Activity: Open the Player Properties First, we need to open the player properties. Open PracticePlayerSetup.quiz from your practice files. Go to the Home tab on the Quizmaker ribbon and click Player. Notice the three main sections of the player properties window: Player categories appear on the ribbon across the top of the window. The selection pane on the left side of the window is where you make modifications. The interactive preview pane on the right side of the window updates automatically as you makes changes. Practice Activity: Choose Your Player Features The player properties window always opens directly to the Features category where you can choose which features to include on your player, such as title, question list, volume controller, and seekbar. It’s also where you choose the answer submission method for question slides. Let’s hide a couple player features and set the answer submission method. Uncheck the Quiz title box. Notice that the interactive preview updates with your change. Select Submit one question at a time for the answer submission method. Uncheck the Volume box. To learn more about the player features, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Customize the Question List In this activity, we’ll customize the question list by renaming the slides and locking the navigation. Click Question List on the player properties ribbon. Rename the first slide by double-clicking it, typing a new name, and pressing Enter on your keyboard. Name it Question 1. Tip: Renaming slides only affects how they look in the question list. It doesn’t impact the question text on the slides in your quiz. Hide slide 2 by selecting it and clicking the eye icon below the question list. Tip: Hiding slides doesn’t remove them from your quiz. It just prevents them from showing in the question list. Click the gear icon below the question list to see additional options. Mark the box to Wrap long question list item titles. To learn more about customizing the question list, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Change the Colors, Font, and Font Size In this activity, we’ll change the color scheme for our quiz player, choose a different font, and increase the player font size. Click Colors & Effects on the player properties ribbon. Select a different color scheme. Change the player font to Articulate Light. Increase the player font size to 120% To learn more about changing the player colors, font, and font size, see this user guide. Note: Currently, the color and font options only apply to the standard player, not the responsive player. See this interactive demo to know which player properties are supported in the responsive player. Practice Activity: Customize the Text Labels In this activity, we’ll make a change to one of the player text labels. Click Text Labels on the player properties ribbon. Scrolldown to the label called Question drop-down list for Quizmaker quizzes. Click the custom text field for this labeland change it to QUESTIONS. Click Update Preview below the text labels list and watch the Question List tab change in the preview pane. To learn more about customizing the player text labels, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Change the Player Size and Resume Behavior In this activity, we’ll change how the player scales in learners’ browsers and how the quiz behaves when learners launch it more than once. Click Other on the player properties ribbon. Set the Player size property to Scale player to fill browser window. Change the resume behavior by setting the On restart property to Always resume. To learn more about controlling the browser size and player size, see this user guide. To learn more about the resume behavior, see this user guide. To learn more about right-to-left language support, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Save Your Customized Player Finally, let’s save our custom player, so we can use it with other Quizmaker quizzes. Click Current Player on the ribbon and choose Save as. Give your custom player a name and click OK. If you don’t want to keep the custom player we created in this tutorial, click Current Player on the ribbon and choose Delete. To learn more about saving custom players, switching to a different player, and sharing custom players, see this user guide. Summary In this tutorial, you learned how to customize the quiz player in Quizmaker 360, including features, colors, font, text labels, size, and resume behavior. To dive even deeper into player customization, see this user guide. In the next tutorial, we’ll publish a quiz.Quizmaker 360: Organizing and Randomizing Quiz Questions
Quizmaker 360 lets you organize quiz slides into one or question groups, and you can even randomize the questions so learners see a different sequence or subset of questions each time. Watch this video demonstration, then follow the activities below to practice. Practice Activities: Create a New Question Group Organize Questions into Groups Randomize Questions in Each Group Lock Individual Questions in Place Practice Activity: Create a New Question Group Each Quizmaker quiz has one question group by default, but you can add as many as you like. Let’s practice adding new groups. Open PracticeGroups.quiz from your practice files. Two question groups have already been created for you. You can expand and collapse question groups so you can focus on certain portions of your quiz. Collapse the two existing groups by clicking the minus sign to the left of each group name. Tip: Collapsing groups in the question list doesn’t affect your published quiz. Now let’s add a new group to the quiz. Go to the Home tab on the ribbon and click Question Group. A new question group will appear at the end of the question list. Click the name of the new group to open it for editing. Type Nervous System and click Enter on your keyboard to save the new name. Practice Activity: Organize Questions into Groups You can create brand new question slides for the new question group you just created, and you can drag existing questions from other groups and drop them into the new group. For this activity, just drag slide 10 down to the new question group you created so the group isn’t empty. Practice Activity: Randomize Questions in Each Group You can randomize questions in each group, and you can even pull a random subset of questions for each quiz attempt. Let’s do both. Select the first group in your quiz by clicking its title bar. Go to the Home tab on the ribbon and click Randomize Group. Notice that “Randomize all questions” appears beside the group name.We could stop here, but let’s limit each quiz attempt to a subset of questions from the group. Use the Include drop-down list on the ribbon to choose how many questions you want to randomly display to learners from this group. Let’s choose five questions for this tutorial. Notice that “Randomize, include 5 questions” appears beside the group name. Practice Activity: Lock Individual Questions in Place There may be times when you need to randomize some questions in a group but prevent others from being shuffled. Quizmaker can help with that, too. Just lock a question in place. You can lock a question to the top of a group, the bottom of a group, or another question in the same group. Select the first question in your quiz, then go to the Home tab on the ribbon, click Lock Question, and choose To Top of Group. Notice that a chain icon appears to lock the first question to the group title bar. Now let’s lock slide 3 to the bottom of the group. Select the slide, go to the Home tab, click Lock Question, and choose To Bottom of Group. Notice that the question moves to the bottom of the group. And let’s say the first couple questions always need to appear together in every quiz attempt. No problem. Right-click slide 2, scroll to Lock Question, and choose To Question Above. Summary In this tutorial, you learned how to organize and randomize slides in question groups. In the next tutorial, we’ll customize the player that appears around the perimeter of your quiz.Quizmaker 360: Building Freeform Quiz Questions
Quizmaker 360 makes it easy to create interactive freeform quiz questions—no coding required. They’re not only fun for learners, they’re fun to build, too! In this tutorial, we’ll rebuild the multiple-choice question we previously created as a freeform pick-one question using engaging characters from the Content Library 360 rather than standard radio buttons. Watch this video demonstration, then follow the activities below to practice. Practice Activities: Insert a Freeform Pick-One Question Add Content to the Slide Identify Drag Items and Drop Targets Practice Activity: Insert a Freeform Pick-One Question Open PracticeQuiz.quiz from your practice files. In Question List View, go to the Home tab on the ribbon and click Freeform Question. When the slide browser opens, select the Pick One template and click Insert Question. Your new slide will open in Slide View where you can add content. Practice Activity: Add Content to the Slide Add a text box to the top right portion of the slide and type FINANCE TRAINING in the box. Format the text box as you'd like. This is the title of the slide. Add another text box just below the first one and type Who processes your expense reports? Format it as you'd like. This is the question text. Add three more text boxes to the bottom of the slide, evenly spaced, and format them as you'd like. Enter these labels in the boxes: VP, Finance Human Resources Accounts Payable Now let’s add characters from the Content Library 360 that will function as our clickable answer choices. Go to the Insert tab on the ribbon and click Character. Choose an Illustrated—Realistic character and click Insert. Crop the character to the torso, then position it over the VP, Finance label. Insert, crop, and position two more characters over the other two labels. It's always a good idea to rename your slide objects with easily recognizable names. This is especially helpful when you're creating freeform questions as you'll see in the next section. Double-click each character in the timeline, type a new name, then press Enter on your keyboard. Practice Activity: Identify the Interactive Answer Choices Lastly, we need to identify which items on the slide are clickable answer choices. In this example, the three illustrated characters function as our answer choices. Click the Form View button in the Question panel. Click the first row in the Choice column and select the VP Finance character. Click the second row in the Choice column and select the Human Resources character. Click the third row in the Choice column and select the Accounts Payable character. Then mark the radio button in the Correct column for the Accounts Payable character to identify it as the correct response. Finally, go to the Home tab on the ribbon, click the Selected State drop-down arrow, and choose an orange glow so the selected character will be noticeable to the learner. Click Preview on the ribbon to see how your interactive question looks and behaves. Summary In this tutorial, you learned how to create and customize an interactive freeform pick-one question—without any coding! To learn more about each freeform question type, see these user guides: Drag-and-Drop Questions Pick-One Questions Pick-Many Questions Text-Entry Questions Hotspot Questions Shortcut-Key Questions In the next tutorial, we’ll edit the quiz result slide.
