Ideas for building abbreviation game quickly

You have to create one slide with one word very carefully remembering about all mechanisms and cases and then duplicate this slide just changing your word.  

Thanks, Kamil!  I'm on the right track then.

Here's what I have so far:

1. The slide shows a word.
2. The learner clicks inside the answer text box and types the abbreviation.
3. When they submit their answer (either by hitting return or clicking submit), the correct/incorrect layer shows.
4. The correct layer shows "correct" in green text, the incorrect layer shows the correct answer in red text.
5. Both feedback layers fade out in 1 second and when the timeline ends, the quiz jumps to the next question (next slide).
6. If the learner doesn't type an answer the quiz jumps to the next question in 5 seconds.
7. I put all the questions into a bank so they are randomized. Learners can play the game multiple times to increase their speed.

Next, I want to:

• Add a timer so the learner can try to do as many questions as they can before the timer ends; and
• Create a results slide showing their "score" which is just the number of how many questions they answered correctly

I'd love to hear any additional feedback you have.

If you want the learner to experience a "lightning round" feel, consider doing a matching interaction instead of having them type.  Some people know the right way to abbreviate but their typing skills let them down under pressure.... especially when finding that pesky " .... I mean.... '  key. 

:-)

You did nice job :) if your slide with question is text entry free form, you can set 1 point for correct answer. If not, just create variable "score" and when timeline with correct anwer starts, make this variable ++. Then you should add result slide and set timer for this question bank, if you want to have standard timer available in SL. If not, it's more difficult and of course possible :)

@Bob S: thanks for the idea. The desired behavior for the learner is for them to actually type the abbreviations fast so I'd like to keep the quiz as close to that as possible.

@Kamil: i start by setting the point to 1. do you know if there's a way to make the standard timer a larger font? I couldn't figure out how to do that in the player settings.

I suppose you can change font size only for whole player putting more than 100% in player settings. But be sure that building your own timer is not difficult :)