I created a Quizmaker quiz and learned how to make it completely transparent and seamless with my presentation, but the only problem here is when the feedback box comes up, it is now missing a border and and slightly fuzzy and transparent. Is there a way to fix this?
Hi there Sarah - in Quizmaker, the same color parameters which control the color on the feedback pop-ups also control the color of your quiz frame (the part that you made transparent). So what you're seeing is a transparent feedback pop-up, and the fuzziness is due to the shadow that gets applied to the pop-up automatically. There's not a way to remove that, so if you want to keep your quiz player transparent, the best workaround is to branch the learner to a blank slide for feedback, rather than use the pop-ups. Here's a tutorial in case you're not familiar with how to do it. Hope that helps!
A workaround that we use, is that we use a solid colour background for most of our slides that match the colour of our player. Instead of using a transparent background we match the colour of the border to the colour of our presenter slides
I am alos using the transparent background and branching scenario for correct and incorrect feedback. But I still have one issue: When user doesnot select an answer and clicks submit, Invalid Answer pop-up ( You must complete the question before submitting) opens with transparent backgroud as well. This makes it not readable and doesnot look professional. Is there a way to turn this off or make the background solid for this pop-up?
Sunil, no the background and popup box colour are tied together no real way round this, you could try my solution but it is reliant on you using a solid background colour for all your slides
Hi Sunil - right, Phil is correct that unfortunately the Invalid Answer pop-up will always appear that way if you've made your quiz player transparent, since the same color parameters are used for the pop-up as the quiz frame.
You could certainly try Phil's approach of using solid slide backgrounds rather than making your player transparent.
The only other workaround I can think of is that if scoring isn't important on this question and you are willing to let people skip the question if they don't answer it, then you could make it a survey question instead. On survey questions you can permit skipping (which would prevent the "invalid answer" popup from appearing). A Pick One survey question would look just like a multiple choice question except that it's not scored. There is a "Require" dropdown on the toolbar where you can choose "User may skip."
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Hi there Sarah - in Quizmaker, the same color parameters which control the color on the feedback pop-ups also control the color of your quiz frame (the part that you made transparent). So what you're seeing is a transparent feedback pop-up, and the fuzziness is due to the shadow that gets applied to the pop-up automatically. There's not a way to remove that, so if you want to keep your quiz player transparent, the best workaround is to branch the learner to a blank slide for feedback, rather than use the pop-ups. Here's a tutorial in case you're not familiar with how to do it. Hope that helps!
Thanks so much Jeanette! This helped
A workaround that we use, is that we use a solid colour background for most of our slides that match the colour of our player. Instead of using a transparent background we match the colour of the border to the colour of our presenter slides
Phil
Jeanette,
I am alos using the transparent background and branching scenario for correct and incorrect feedback. But I still have one issue: When user doesnot select an answer and clicks submit, Invalid Answer pop-up ( You must complete the question before submitting) opens with transparent backgroud as well. This makes it not readable and doesnot look professional. Is there a way to turn this off or make the background solid for this pop-up?
Sunil, no the background and popup box colour are tied together no real way round this, you could try my solution but it is reliant on you using a solid background colour for all your slides
Hi Sunil - right, Phil is correct that unfortunately the Invalid Answer pop-up will always appear that way if you've made your quiz player transparent, since the same color parameters are used for the pop-up as the quiz frame.
You could certainly try Phil's approach of using solid slide backgrounds rather than making your player transparent.
The only other workaround I can think of is that if scoring isn't important on this question and you are willing to let people skip the question if they don't answer it, then you could make it a survey question instead. On survey questions you can permit skipping (which would prevent the "invalid answer" popup from appearing). A Pick One survey question would look just like a multiple choice question except that it's not scored. There is a "Require" dropdown on the toolbar where you can choose "User may skip."
I needed to solve this for a project and came up with a solution that involves copying one file into my published course.
https://elearningenhanced.com/products/quizmaker-background-vanishing-powder
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