How can I save a quiz template

Hi Bieke! It sounds like you're following all of the steps for saving a Quiz template correctly. 

You mentioned the Save As option is greyed out--are you working from your local hard drive? Does the same problem happen in any Quizmaker file, or just this one in particular?

Hi Alyssa, thanks for your follow up! When i go back into my template now, the save as option is available & working as it should. It seems like it's one of those "Guess I just needed to put this question out there, and now it works"-moments. Thanks again!

Hi Alyssa, so I've been able to save the quiztemplate, but now am unable to use it to create a new quiz. In attachment the instructions I've found. But I can not find the option to "create a quiz from template" anywhere on my start screen in Quizmaker. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Sorry to be so confusing!

But I've look a bit further and discovered that I need to work directly in Quizmaker 360 to start from a quiz template.
However, I've created my template and made a new quiz staring from that template. I figured "save as" would mean I made a new *.quiz format and the orginal *.quiztemplate would remain unchanged.

But when I click "save as" to save my new quiz, it overwrites the quiztemplate and that template is gone and I now only have a *.quiz format left. So my template is gone. Even if I use the template from one location and save the new quiz in a different location, the template version is gone.
How can I keep the template around to use it for other new quizzes?

Thanks, and again, apologies for the multiple posts here...

Hi Bieke,

When you clicked "Save As", did you give the file a new name? If you saved with the same name, then it will overwrite the original file. 

To prevent that from happening in the future, follow these steps:

1. Launch a new Articulate Quizmaker file.
2. On the Quizmaker start screen, click From quiz template.
3. Browse to the *.quiztemplate file you want to use and click Open.
4. A new quiz will be created with all the settings and content from the template. Edit the quiz as you’d like, then save and publish it.

I saved with a new name, and saved it in a different location as well. Does the original quiztemplate need to be stored in a certain location? It automically goes to my local drive now. But when I use the template to create a new quiz, the original template still dissapears. Even if I save it with a new name. Very strange!

Hi Bieke,

The local drive is the best place to store you project files, so you're doing the right thing there. Would it be possible for you to record your screen while you are creating a new quiz from a quiz template? I'd like to get a better understanding of your steps, and a video would be very helpful. Thanks!

Hi Alyssa

I've recorded my screen and as you will see when I save the new quiz based on the template, it saves a new quiz in one folder, and the template is gone is the local folder.

Looking forward to your feedback! 

Thanks!

Bieke

Noticed the original video wasn't very clear, hope this is better!

Thanks, Bieke. That video was very helpful, and I'm seeing the same thing. I'd like our Support Engineers to weigh in, so I've shared this information with them. They'll take a look at your video and contact you via email as soon as they have more to share!