Using slide master

Hi Bernard! So, you are applying an updated layout of your Slide Master that is already being utilized in your project?

Have you updated to Studio '13 Update 1 yet? This would be helpful to see if the update alleviates your issue and would be required prior to proceeding to troubleshoot.

Yes I have upgraded to Studio 13.  I changed I seem to have hit a brick wall with this. The relevant layout looks fine, and it is applied to various quiz questions correctly, but it does not actually work.  I cannot spend any more time on this and will just have to do them one by one.

I loaded the Studio 13 update 1 yesterday.  It made things worse.  Now when I open quizmaker it tells me I have 30 days left on my trial, despite having previously paid for a licence and entered my code some time ago.  Can you tell me what I have to do to fix that ?

Slide master still does not work either.  Although some aspects of the layout do affect the slide, but things like the font colour, line colour and font size do not.

You need to choose to reactivate where it tells you that you have 30 days remaining.

OK done that.  Thanks.

By the way, the problem I have with Slide Master might be linked to a problem with Quick Styles.  Many Quick Styles are supposed to give you white script.  Actually I find the script is always black.  For example Quick Style Column 1, Row 2 or 3 give me black text on a black background, which is obviously no good to anyone.  I have to change it manually, slide by slide.  This defeats the point of having quick styles.

Is there a way to fix this?  Might it explain why I cannot change the script colour using Slide Master?

I am having the same issue...also, how do we get announcements about updates?

Hi Michele,

You can enable the software to check automatically for updates, if you'd like. To do so, click on the "Articulate" menu, followed by "Quizmaker Options" and enable the option to "Check for updates on startup".

I would also recommend following us on the following sites:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Word of Mouth Blog

We usually announce any new updates on the forums and the sites I listed above.

Also, if you're still having trouble with using the slide master, please let us know.

Thanks!

I'm having the same issues as Bernard regarding the Slide Master font changes not applying to the slides themselves. I have Quizmaker '13 Update 4. I've tried the same things Bernard mentioned previously to no avail. I've tried applying the Layout to individual slides and to groups and it just won't pick up the font/size changes I made on the Slide Master. I have 288 slides so far and no time to do each one individually. If there is a more current (than 12 months ago) thread about this, can someone please point me in the right direction?

Hi Kendra!

Have you applied the layout to the slides as shown in this documentation?

Would you be able to share your .quiz file so that we can have a look?

The documentation doesn't help me much because I did not create the original file. I'm trying to fix an existing quiz that was set up incorrectly. There are 300+ multiple-choice questions and they all should look the same. I deleted all extraneous master slides, leaving only the parent master and a question layout master, both which have two placeholders formatted exactly the same on each. Yesterday, after much trial-and-error, this seemed to be working. Today, the slides are not picking up the formatting. I'm using (or trying to use!) Franklin Gothic Book 14 pt. for the Question; Franklin Gothic Book 11 pt. for the Answers. When I see them in Slide View, the Question is formatted as Articulate 16 pt.; furthermore, the placeholder box doesn't adjust to fit the amount of text, so the lengthier Questions shrink down to what looks like 8 pt. This is extremely frustrating; we've had to temporarily pull three tests from our education site because this is so messed up. I'm not allowed to share the .quiz file--sorry. I could send a couple of screen shots if that would help.

Hi Kendra!

I understand if you are unable to share your quiz. Do you experience the same issue when you try to start over in a new file and import the questions?

I ended up importing all the questions into a brand new, from-scratch quiz. It looks fine now. I’m all for a quick workaround and solution to a vexing problem, but I also like to know what was causing the problem in the first place. Is this a Quizmaker bug? Does it have something to do with fonts I have installed on my computer? Could it be because the files were initially housed on a server instead of my hard drive? (I’ve since copied all the working files to my hard drive; it still didn't look correct, but it may have been a holdover.) Any ideas about what caused this issue?

 Also, I want to add that you can import groups of questions from another quiz with groups. When I created a new quiz to import my questions into, I also created groups with the same names in the quiz from which I was importing questions. On the Questions tab, I selected the group name before clicking Import Questions, then checked the Include All box just for the group I wanted to import. Lather, rinse, repeat until all the groups are imported. 

Hi Kendra!

It would be hard to track down the reasoning why, but I would venture to guess that it could be related to the server and moving the files around (you mentioned you didn't create this file) especially since you do not seem to have the issues in a new file.