Talking about a pdf

Hi Michele, 

It sounds like it is an open book quiz, right? Actually, I did use this strategy once in one of my project before. That was a course of training for confidential information security. The only materials I got for that case was the company information security regulations and they wanted it to be included in the course.

In the real world, we want employees doing the right things and they can actually check the company's rules anytime when there's a need. So the point is we don't need them to remember all the rules but to do the right choice. Therefore, I created all kinds of scenarios that employees may encounter in their real work and ask them to choose the options when they are in the situation. The company regulations are available to check before answering a question. Well, they can find the answer from it if they want. And you know what, that is totally fine because that can also help employees to build a habit to check company regulations if they are not confident of dealing with things related to information security. Also, it can help them learn where to find the information when needed. 

Hi Michele! Joanne offered some great suggestions. Another idea would be to create a slide for each web resource and insert a web object on each of those slides. Then, have buttons/icons on the bottom of your quiz slides that lightbox each slide. Lightbox slides appear in a box over the current slide so the learner won't have to leave the quiz to access those web resources. Once they find what they were looking for, they can close the lightbox and answer the quiz question. 

Hi again.😊 I just wanted to add that it's also possible to keep your lightbox slide to one slide by adding tabs on your lightbox slide. Each tab can show a layer with a web object. This way, your quiz only needs one icon/button in order to display the lightbox slide with all the web resources. 

Yes, it is an open book quiz.  The goal is simply to start them becoming familiar with where to find things in a contract.  I designed the course to cause them to search an existing contract template by asking them the page numbers on which they will find the answers to my questions.

Sarah, thanks so much for the lightbox idea.  I've never used one before, but it sounds like a great idea! I'm trying to find examples now to better understand the idea.

I'm wondering if there might be a problem attempting to read the documents with this approach because it sounds like it might limit the size of the displayed document to the size of the player window...

Hi Michele! Good point. If you like the idea, it might be worth doing a test run with one of the documents. Here's an example Samuel Apata created using a lightbox slide. If that doesn't work, I'm hoping other community members might chime in with other ideas for you.