I'm hoping this is a simple check box that I'm missing somewhere, but is it possible to provide users with the ability to pause the audio in a quiz? The quiz is within a Studio course, which does have the pause feature available, so I thought it would carry over, but it disappears whenever a quiz starts. I haven't had a course with narration in a quiz before, so this is the first time I'm trying to do this.
Hi Laura! Your player defaults do not carry to interactions and quizzed, so be sure that you check the slide properties for your quiz slide and adjust as needed
Thanks, Leslie! I do have another question, if I can ask that here - I think I've confused myself messing with all of the settings trying to figure this out. I now have the pause set up correctly. I removed the seek bar because they want to make sure people are not clicking through before the narration is completed (for the entire course, not just the quizzes). However, that was still allowing me to click "next" at any point and advance. So, I locked the navigation for all slides, but now when I preview, it won't advance after the first slide's narration is completed and clicking "next" does nothing. Can you possibly help me figure this out? Thank you so much!
I haven't published it yet because it takes awhile and unfortunately I haven't been able to focus solely on this project! I will try publishing next week and see if it works.
I finally had time to publish this morning and I'm still having the same issue - when the narration for the first slide ends, nothing happens - clicking "next" does nothing, clicking the play button does nothing, clicking other slide links in the menu do nothing. When I go to click on "next" the cursor has has a little padlock image next to it.
It's actually the entire course - I have a few quizzes sprinkled throughout with scenarios and a final quiz. I have the quizzes set up now with the option to pause.
I'm wondering if the rest of what I'm trying to do is just not possible:
1. Allow users to pause narration.
2. Allow users to advance slides on their own - not auto-advance, for those that need more time.
3. Ensure users don't advance through slides before narration has completed.
4. Allow users to go back to previously viewed slides.
I don't agree with the idea of forcing people to listen to narration, but alas, it's not up to me. We are creating this course as a first version to cover as many people as possible, with the intention of having different global groups tweak for their audience eventually. Until then, we are also trying to make the course friendly for those that speak English as a second language, hence not wanting it to auto-advance in case people need to read the notes (which match the audio) or pause.
If you think I can actually do all of that, let me know and I will send it over! Otherwise, I think I'm trying to do too many things at once that just aren't possible with this program.
That works for all of the navigation specifics we're looking to achieve. I never think to click on those gears to see what the settings within those menus are.
If you're still up to checking back here again () I'm now wondering if it's possible to have notes for quizzes within a Presenter course display. I have the narration for each slide all typed out and I see it in the Notes pane when I'm in Quizmaker, but the Notes pane is showing as empty when the course is published.
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Hi Laura! Your player defaults do not carry to interactions and quizzed, so be sure that you check the slide properties for your quiz slide and adjust as needed
Thanks, Leslie! I do have another question, if I can ask that here - I think I've confused myself messing with all of the settings trying to figure this out. I now have the pause set up correctly. I removed the seek bar because they want to make sure people are not clicking through before the narration is completed (for the entire course, not just the quizzes). However, that was still allowing me to click "next" at any point and advance. So, I locked the navigation for all slides, but now when I preview, it won't advance after the first slide's narration is completed and clicking "next" does nothing. Can you possibly help me figure this out? Thank you so much!
Hi Laura!
You may need to check what 'time/length' the audio editor is showing in case it really thinks the slide is not done.
Do you see the same result in the published output?
I haven't published it yet because it takes awhile and unfortunately I haven't been able to focus solely on this project! I will try publishing next week and see if it works.
Thank you!
Hi Leslie,
I finally had time to publish this morning and I'm still having the same issue - when the narration for the first slide ends, nothing happens - clicking "next" does nothing, clicking the play button does nothing, clicking other slide links in the menu do nothing. When I go to click on "next" the cursor has has a little padlock image next to it.
Any ideas?
Thank you!
Hi Laura!
The padlock is due to the fact that you locked the navigation for the slide, we would expect that to happen
So, I think it's time to take a look at your quiz :) Could you package it up and submit it here?
It's actually the entire course - I have a few quizzes sprinkled throughout with scenarios and a final quiz. I have the quizzes set up now with the option to pause.
I'm wondering if the rest of what I'm trying to do is just not possible:
1. Allow users to pause narration.
2. Allow users to advance slides on their own - not auto-advance, for those that need more time.
3. Ensure users don't advance through slides before narration has completed.
4. Allow users to go back to previously viewed slides.
I don't agree with the idea of forcing people to listen to narration, but alas, it's not up to me. We are creating this course as a first version to cover as many people as possible, with the intention of having different global groups tweak for their audience eventually. Until then, we are also trying to make the course friendly for those that speak English as a second language, hence not wanting it to auto-advance in case people need to read the notes (which match the audio) or pause.
If you think I can actually do all of that, let me know and I will send it over! Otherwise, I think I'm trying to do too many things at once that just aren't possible with this program.
Thank you!
Hi Laura!
Restricted Navigation and Advance slides by user seems like it should work for what you are trying to accomplish.
Oh, restricted navigation - I think that's it! I'm going to publish and test it now. Thank you!!!
No problem Laura
Hi Leslie,
That works for all of the navigation specifics we're looking to achieve. I never think to click on those gears to see what the settings within those menus are.
If you're still up to checking back here again (
) I'm now wondering if it's possible to have notes for quizzes within a Presenter course display. I have the narration for each slide all typed out and I see it in the Notes pane when I'm in Quizmaker, but the Notes pane is showing as empty when the course is published.
Thanks!
Hi Laura! The Quizmaker notes will not automatically display in your Presenter course. You would need to copy/paste to the Notes pane on the slide.
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