Remove pulsing cursor animation on hotspots
Jul 11, 2012
By
Anders Juul
Hello heroes - and thanks for a great piece of software.
I am doing a slide where the user has to click on certain hotspots as part of a quiz.
When the user clicks the hotspot the picture changes state, and then the user can click submit.
Great!
The problem however is the annoying pulsing and swirling cursor animation when the user has clicked somewhere on the slide.
How can I get rid of that cursor animation?
Please see the attached picture for clarification.
12 Replies
Hi Anders,
Is this what you're looking for with a marker - changing the swirl to none?
I hope that helped!
ah, duh, you said in the quiz question! Sorry, what I put above is only a marker not in a quiz.
Hi Anders,
The way that i have gotten this to work is to click Edit Hotspot and change how the answer to the question is submitted. I have the question submitted on click. That removes the submit button and the marker or whatever you call that swirly thing. The down fall is that the learner cannot change his/her mind. I find this works great for the ungraded quiz that i am doing but may not for a graded quiz. You could change the number of attempts that they get at the question, that might help.
Hope this helps!
Tracy
Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately is does not answer my question, as you already know.
I need to get rid of (or scale down) the annoying and attention demanding swirling and pulsing cursor, when clicking on an object doing a "hotspot" in Quiz-mode.
How is that possible?
Whoops... Nevermind my reply above. You beat me to it Tracy.
I will try what you are suggesting - thank you...
Unfortunately that is not a feature that can be turned off, it is built in. :-(
Okay. Thank you very much for your answers.
Tracy, thanks for your solution. I allowed 2 attempts on the question and it seems to work fine. The regular cursor arrow is definitely an improvement over that swirling thing.
You are very welcome, William! So glad it worked for you.
Here is a similar thread that may provide some additional ideas.
not the exact question, but is it possible to change the marker? I find that it is not large enough and learners are not seeing it. Would like to make it bigger or a brighter color. Thinking this isn't possible..... but asking just in case.
Thanks,
Tracy
Hi Tracy,
There isn't a way to change the overall size of the marker but you can control the color as detailed here. I know some users have made the border weighted more, and that helps enlarge the marker slightly.
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