Surveys vs Quizzes.....

Do you need to track the score of a response?? And really what is the difference between a Survey and a Quiz question???

I am a bigger fan of survey...less pressure. The learner has no implication any which way they answer. I am sure if you had your way you could add witty humor about how they better answer correctly or Nessy will attack them via interoffice mail the Canadian version could be I'll get a Mountie after you...or Big Foot?. Or answer honestly cause I said to...

But in all seriousness I would go with a survey. Position the question as what do you think...really not what is the correct answer. In an ideal world survey questions will encourage more honestly then "GRADED" quiz questions.

I too like the survey for this application, since it doesn't sound like you have to actually track anything.  I also like QuizMaker for this because it is so easy to incorporate your course design and have a consistent visual appearance throughout.

I tried to pitch for a program i am working on but it was not the right one... but in my brain for future use I plan to ask...

A survey question that all answers lead to a blank quizmaker slide that incorporates the key response. I think that is were you are going and I like it. I like to challenge a learn when I can and I believe that we are challenged with questions. Especially when asking moral questions that have multiple responses. For example in Harassment Training or something of the like.

Thanks for comments.

These questions are relatively simple - all just asking which of the 9 statements are relevant in a certain industrial process under discussion - they all are.

I'm going to have a closer look at surveys, but I have not yet got my head around the options. I do not ned an email or anything, it's just a way to get them to "click" on something, and then no matter what they choose we move on with teh course and an explanation that all were relevant.

Thanks again.

Bruce

If you're just building a one-question interactivity, one advantage of going with a survey instead of a graded quiz is that there won't be any scoring information that appears on your quiz player template when the learner sees the question. Although it's easy to remove that stuff even if you do build a quiz, it's just one less step to fuss with if you build a survey instead.

For quick 1-question interactivities like this, it's also kind of nice to use a transparent quiz player that shows your PowerPoint slide master, so that things like consistent, like Brian said. Below is an example of something like that... I used a transparent quiz player so that I could leverage the master slide behind it, so that the heading on the quiz slide had the same look (font, color, size, etc.) as the headings on the content slides. For folks interested in learning how to make a transparent player for a quiz, here are the steps.

You know, once in a while I've had issues with PowerPoint "forgetting" the slide master that I've applied to a slide that contains a quiz. Maybe that's what you've experienced too Brian? Reapplying it seems to do the trick.

Thanks Jeanette, I'll try that the next time I have problems with it, which hopefully will be never!

Thanks all.

Eventually went with 1-question multi-answer survey, with all "detail" removed, plus transparent background, and a 75% transparent image behind the questions.

Looks nice, thanks for the help.

Bruce