Help - Quizmaker Problems

Dec 31, 2015

Happy New Year, everyone!

I've been creating courses the past few weeks that contain both Engage and Quizmaker - all is right with the world. The course I'm currently working on will no longer load the quiz I created yesterday (within PowerPoint). Each time I try to open or create a new quiz now it gets stuck on loading dialogue and even Task Manager doesn't see it running.

I can open and edit it using Quizmaker but cannot preview it - white screen.

I've reinstalled Studio 09 (I don't have 13), disabled and re-enabled the ribbon (re-booting the computer in between).

I'm running IE v 10, Windows 7.

How can I resolve asap without upgrading (no moola in the kitty)?

8 Replies
Leslie McKerchie

Hi Beth!

A bug has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.267 that breaks several preview features in Articulate Storyline and Articulate Studio. For example:
 
* You'll see a blank screen when you preview a project.
* The preview area of the player properties window is blank.
* The timeline preview feature doesn't work.
* You can't preview videos, Flash movies, or web objects.
* You can't edit videos.
* You can't import Engage interactions into Storyline courses.
 
We recommend waiting to update your Flash Player until Adobe fixes the problem. If you've already installed Flash Player 20.0.0.267, here's how you can rollback to your previous version.
 
I will add this thread so that I can provide an update when applicable as well.
Joyce Hensen

I'm also having issues with attempting to update a Quizmaker 13 file that is part of a Presenter 13 file.  The slide presents the quiz simply as a graphics, not as the quiz, so I can't edit it from Presenter. 

To try to get the quiz back into the presentation after updated manually from Quizmaker, I've tried each of the following methods, without success:

1. Insert the existing quiz from Presenter/PP and navigate to the folder where the quiz is located. This only allows me to search for engage interactions, quiz files are not an option.

2. Attempt to make a new quiz (planning to import the slides from the existing quiz). When I try to make a new quiz from Presenter/PP the box pops up, but only with Engage as an option. 

3. Open the existing quiz in Quizmaker 13 and publish to the active Presenter file.  This appears to work, but doesn't actually insert the updated quiz.  (A new blank slide is added to the end of the presentation in the process, but it has no content at all.)

When I preview the "quiz" slides, the old quizzes do play.  But I need to update the content.

Do you have any other ideas?  I have the quizzes.  I have the presenter file.

 

Christie Pollick

Hi, Joyce -- Sorry sorry to hear of your difficulties! Have you had an opportunity to review this information on Unexpected or Erratic Behavior in Studio '13? You may want to run through the repair steps listed and let us know if you find improvement. And if issues persist, it may be helpful to review this information in case you are being affected by file corruption. 

Leslie McKerchie

Good news! Adobe and Microsoft have fixed the Flash Player bug that broke many applications just before the new year, including Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline, and Articulate Studio.

Here's how to install the latest Adobe/Microsoft update so you can preview your e-learning projects, edit videos, and launch CD-published courses again.

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