I recently made a flag quiz and discovered (through the forum) that by adding text to the Choice column and text to the Match column (MATCHING DRAG AND DROP) - and then going into the Slide View and adding the flags to the Choice column I could achieve relatively what I wanted as a Drag and drop the country to the correct flag.
I want to do the same to sound files as well, but when I add more than one sound they all play together. Is there any way that I could get the quiz taker to just click on one sound file at a time and it plays one at a time?
The way I have remedied this in the past is to create a loop of slides.
If you add a sound clip in Articulate, it defaults to play automatically when the slide is entered. So then, when the user wants to hear a specific sound, they have to enter a specific slide. If you wanted users to click on "buttons" to play specific sounds on command you would need:
1. Slide with buttons
2. A slide for each sound (sound will play upon entering the slide)
3. Hyperlink the buttons on slide 1 to the applicable slide for each sound.
Then, just copy the button hyperlinks from slide 1 and paste them onto all of the sound slides, then no matter what slide they're on, they can continue clicking to get more sounds to play. Remember to also include a 'Next' button that will let them out of the loop. (If your sound loop is slides 1-10, then make the 'Next' button on each slide hyperlink to slide 11.
It's a little tricky, but it gives me the result I want. When all of the slides look identical, the user has no idea that they're moving to a different slide for each sound clip. All they know is that when they click on an icon, the associated sound plays!
Thanks for that suggestion. I will give it a go - but I have kind of just botched it somewhat by adding five sound clips but on a timeline with a small time lapse between clips. It sorta, kinda, mayhaps - works. But, I'll certainly give your idea a twirl.
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Hi Richard,
To work with multiple sound files you could save the audio as mp4 files and have audio-only videos.
Take a look at these two screencasts to see if this is along the idea of what you're looking to do:
Jeanette's audio technique: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204933724
Tom's multiple video technique: https://player.vimeo.com/video/148896344
The way I have remedied this in the past is to create a loop of slides.
If you add a sound clip in Articulate, it defaults to play automatically when the slide is entered. So then, when the user wants to hear a specific sound, they have to enter a specific slide. If you wanted users to click on "buttons" to play specific sounds on command you would need:
1. Slide with buttons
2. A slide for each sound (sound will play upon entering the slide)
3. Hyperlink the buttons on slide 1 to the applicable slide for each sound.
Then, just copy the button hyperlinks from slide 1 and paste them onto all of the sound slides, then no matter what slide they're on, they can continue clicking to get more sounds to play. Remember to also include a 'Next' button that will let them out of the loop. (If your sound loop is slides 1-10, then make the 'Next' button on each slide hyperlink to slide 11.
It's a little tricky, but it gives me the result I want. When all of the slides look identical, the user has no idea that they're moving to a different slide for each sound clip. All they know is that when they click on an icon, the associated sound plays!
Hi Dana,
Thanks for that suggestion. I will give it a go - but I have kind of just botched it somewhat by adding five sound clips but on a timeline with a small time lapse between clips. It sorta, kinda, mayhaps - works. But, I'll certainly give your idea a twirl.
Thanks again,
Richard
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