Quizmaker 360 suddenly turns yellow

Hi Jim,

I can honestly say I've never seen that...did it disappear after you closed and reopened the program? What version of Windows are you running? 

Windows 7 professional 32 gb of ram.  You know what also happens from time to time with presenter 13 is all the text on the slide title page (just like this one) instead of turning yellow will duplicate itself, so that all the text that you see on that page (that is now highlighted yellow) actually pastes over itself and only slightly offset.  It's happened hundreds of times over the years (I've gone through probably 8 computers in the period), but doesn't impact me because th student never seeis this screen.  The turning yellow thing was new.

I'll update this post if I ever see it again. Thanks.

Thanks Jim - both of those are scenarios I haven't seen and can't determine a way to replicate it. The text duplicating could be an easy enough if it was all selected and used the CTRL + D keystroke by accident? I know I get working pretty fast and hide panels or cut items off a slide all the time...fast moving and less than accurate fingers. :-) 

If you see it again and can determine any way to reproduce the behavior please feel free to let us know. You may want to respond in this forum discussion or feel free to connect with our Support Engineers here. 

Actually I figured out how to replicate it:

1. Upgrade a presentation from 2013 to Presenter 360
2. Go in and edit a quiz, when you exit (at least for me) that's when it turns yellow.
   
   I've done this several times now.
3. (Try NOT saving the file first -- just upgrade and jump right in to a quiz.  I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not).

Hi Jim,

I just tested this out on my end, and I still didn't see anything go yellow. I tried saving prior to working in Quizmaker and not saving, all with the same results of a seamless process. I was using Powerpoint 2013 - just in case you've got a different Powerpoint version, I can try to have one of my colleagues check that too.

Powerpoint 2010.  I wonder if some of my vexing issues with Presenter might disappear (such as some critical hyperlinks not working -- that's still not resolved) when upgrading from Presenter 13 to 360.  I hate upgrading office when I don't have to as there are so many unknown unknowns.  But maybe I'll try to do that on a different machine. thanks.

Anyway, this issue isn't a huge problem for me, nobody sees those slides that turn the text to yellow highlight.  Just file it away and maybe someone else will come up with the same bug.

I'll keep you posted if we see it anywhere else! Thanks again for sharing with us here. 

I've again verified this bug... all it takes (on my end at least) is to

1. Convert a 13 presenter file to 360
2. don't save it
3. go in and edit a quizmaker quiz
4. Exit the quiz and watch it turn yellow.

I think I'll record a screen  capture (video) to show you what happens.

Thanks Jim - I would love to see the screen capture and that would ensure I was following your steps exactly in case anything else was lost in the text here. Just let me know when you're able to upload it. 

The yellow quizmaker bug is actually turning into a helpful tool because I can now tell when I've edited something in Quizmaker 360 because it turns the slide yellow when I load it in 360 and upgrade the course.  It doesn't display that way to the student, otherwise it'd be a real problem.

So, the steps for me are load Presenter 13 file.

double-click quizmaker 13 slide

presenter 360 asks "upgrade?"

Say yes, and "Upgrade" it.

When done the quizmaker slide you were working on (and only that one) changes color to yellow

LOL - nice to find the positive? ;) 

I still haven't seen it myself nor have I heard from other colleagues or users of the same type of thing, but I'm definitely keep an eye out!