How do I achieve 'if, then' type interaction from learners?

Hi, Bruce:

I would have a look at Quizmaker for that project.   It may not do everything you want, but it should get you close.  There are some cool examples of non-Quizzy Quizmaker projects around here somewhere...

You have more options for branching in QM than in out-of-the-box Presenter.  You'd have to use Flash for that kind of thing in Presenter.

Hi Brian

thanks, but I'm not sure that really would do the trick.  I want to create a tutorial (ie not just a quiz) with branching based on the response to several questions, preferrably entered on the same page.  Its rather like clicking on check boxes when applying for insurance online!  So for example, I might want to know of a learner : are you in Europe? are you travelling alone? do you have a visa? do you need to know about currency?  and I would rather get the answer to this on the first page and take branching from there to informative pages rather than questions.  I may also want to use these kind of questioning to further narrow the options later in the tutorial.

Does Articulate support VBA if I add active x controls to PowerPoint?

Acticve X controls dont work in Studio, you would probably have to do this logic in single questions on different slides and then use branching.

You could build this logic in flash and then goto a specific slide based on the answers.

Studio is probably not the right tool to achieve this

Phil

Thanks Phil, it helps to know (if frustrating!)  OK a follow up question then - If I were to learn some Flash programming could I apply that to Articulate to extend its functionality?

This is a relatively easy thing to do in flash, you could have your questions and embed it into Studio, this could send you to a specific slide based on the response to the tick boxes.  You need to do it using actionscript 2 (as 3 is not supported).  You could probably get a flash developer to knock this up in a couple of hours