Ungraded mini-quiz as pop-ups during timeline of base slide

Neither your legal SMEs or learners can tell the difference between a new slide and a new layer, but breaking loooong content into shorter slides may be a huge help to development.

You can use a timeline to jump to the quiz, and when the quiz is finished, jump to the next slide.  De-cluttering slides is never bad design.

At the point where you want a quiz, break the slide, and jump to the quiz slide. For low stake (ungraded) quizzes, I have found it easier to just create a slide and not use the built-in quizzes. They are great if you want exactly what they do, but sometimes difficult to customize.

Thanks Walt! Unfortunately the slide design is using a template that we do not want to break too much and the reasons this became a long slide is:

a) cause I use lots of voiceovers as 'explainers' of the text (much shorter, so it fits in one slide 50/50 vertical split and animations take place in the opposite side as some bullet points unfold - this happen right left first and left right after - with a transparency base)

b) cause of the difficulty to have a proper planning brought the development of the slide to be done on the fly and in different iterations (so it started with a simple design and got addition over addition till becoming smooth and nice, just long and complicated in the background - a long timeline - but it is actually working nice and easy on the front for users - it is simply long, thus the idea to break it up with mini-quiz). 

I can create a layer but quizzes seems not to be possible in a layer. I am not sure how I can set up one up from scratch though. It could work with a layer, a question, 2 simple answers (pick-one) and a feedback to appear nearby when any is picked. No submit needed. I think I need to experiment with radio buttons or spots that would bring up an object (graphical) with the feedback and then the user would close the layer with a button. Or could be a lightbox so the close button is already there. Was looking for some examples as I am under time pressure. 

I share your opinion on the difficulty of using built-in quizzes when one need to adapt the look (done it, but it's a bit of a pain) but I have never created a quiz from scratch. That is where I would benefit from some examples.

I agree with all you say. Just seems that my type of clients (those that cannot be taken out of their acute  "it's-just-powerpoint-itis" ) are sparing no time to listen. I sometimes wonder if I only find this types. :-)

On with experimenting solutions!

Thanks for your answer! 

Cause I only want a 'pick-one' type, I used a Layer that pops up at a given time in the Base Layer's timeline and that present two buttons, restyled in line with the template we use. Each button then triggers a change of state in a nearby invisible object that contains the feedback box (color coded for right/wrong answer as it needs) and text to visible (and close the other answer's feedback, so the user can cycle as many times as he/she likes between the two. Finally a small X box that close the layer when the user is done; this also resume the timeline in the Base Layer. So I can basically place as many as these layers (I need only 4-5 in a 4 minutes Base Layer) and it will be sufficient to go through the long slide without wanting to 'commit suicide' (and reinforcing specific bit that they just have learned....memory hooks!). As you said a bit more maintenance than the standard quiz but now that I spent an hour creating it and styling it, they are easy to reuse with just some editing of texts for question, 2 answers boxes and 2 feedback boxes. You gave me the encouragement to go ahead so thanks for the nudge! Thanks

Ta!