I’m working on a course that uses almost all video. The content’s good, but the client is asking for ideas for making it more interactive. Someone sent me the 21 Jump Street movie site as an example. I know, right? I like how the trailer layered movie trivia questions over the video. I thought this would make a good example so I tried building it in SL. This is what I put together: Elearning Quiz Demo I’d also be interested in what you think the right number of questions per video might be. Most videos will be 1-2 minutes. Thank you!

We need a "Like" button! Thank you everyone for the great feedback! I updated slide properties to pause base layer so now it plays properly. The airport clip is silent but it's just a placeholder clip for the "real" project, which is confidential (you know how that goes). The pop up video idea is another one. This project is a little formal but I'll give it a go and share how it turns out. Thank you everyone!

Hi Gonzalo, The video pausing is really simple, actually. You just click the gear icon and check the pause timeline option. You have to do that for each slide layer. To create the quiz questions on slide layers, I cheated a little by creating one large image for the slide layer, image and questions. I then added four radio buttons and a submit button. The submit button reveals a feedback graphic with the correct and incorrect icons. This solution was super fast for creating the prototype, but not desirable for production work because nothing on the slide is editable in Storyline.

I really like the presentation! I experienced the same as Bruce - the video kept playing in the background while I was working on the question. This will be an issue since you won't be able to control how long a person takes on each question (unless you can pause the video as Bruce suggests). Taking a slightly different tact, are you familiar with the VH1 "Pop-up video" shows? It's basically music videos with pop-up facts either directly or even indirectly related to the video, artist, or something mentioned in the song. So perhaps you could do something similar with your facts and then just include the quiz at the end? (Or is that what your clients were trying to "solve"?) Perhaps breaking up the videos into smaller chunks would work, with the question at the end of each chunk. Using your sample video, you could first stop it at the same point (where the first gentleman puts his bag on the belt) and then phrase the question in a scenario, perhaps like "The screener identifies the following items. Which one is a violation?" And then you would move on to the next section of video, which is an issue with next traveler's items. And, if you have the liberty to inject some fun, you could play a record-scratching or brake-squealing sound with a big WAIT! or HOLD ON! graphic when you stop the video to ask the quesiton. Again, a great start!

Nice work. Agree, getting the vid to pause would help learners understand what you are trying to do. And maybe it's just me, but it seems a light soundtrack is called for. Seems a bit odd to have a normally relatively loud scene (airport) be silent. Thanks for sharing.

Very cool concept. Well done. Adding the scoring wouldn't be difficult either. Great example. Great movie too - I laughed so hard when I watched it. Cheers!

Sharing and seeking: ideas for making videos more interactive

GonzaloRosetti
Community Member
13 years ago

Congrats on your great job.

I really like what you have created in these forums: a real community of practice.

Can anyone show me:

how to make the video stop while the questions are being answered?

how to add quiz questions on layers?

Thank you so much!
AshleyW
Community Member
13 years ago

What a great coincidence that you featured this on the week I needed something like this! Figured out how to get the timeline to pause as the question button appeared and everything. Just need to figure out how to make it a graded quiz, but that can wait til tomorrow!

Gonzalo: Set a trigger to pause the timeline when the user clicks the button leading to the quiz question.

As for the other, I had to make my own quiz question on the layer using radio buttons.
TimMorris
Community Member
13 years ago
This is really nice way to incorporate questions into video. I use a lot of linear video for online university courses and have been looking for better ways to include quizzes - this is definitely an approach I'm going to try!
AshleyW
Community Member
13 years ago

Is there any way to solve this problem: I have a shape off to the side that will change the state of a button to normal once the timeline on the shape begins. Once the state of the button is normal, the media will pause, giving the user time to click the question and answer it before beginning the media again by clicking "close".

Of course, here's the problem: The timeline keeps running, apparently, even with the media paused, so the shape to the side that will change my next button to normal appears sooner than I have it timed to...
SteveFlowers
Community Member
13 years ago

Hi, Montse -

What font are you using in that demo, if you don't mind me asking? It looks unusually clean. Used to seeing lower quality type out of Storyline.
Montsea
Super Hero
13 years ago

Hi Steve,

I used ProximaNova Semi for the headers and ProximaNova Regular for the body text.

I cheated - I saved the text as an image from PS to cut down on production time since this was just a prototype.
SteveFlowers
Community Member
13 years ago
Thanks for the font tip. I wondered how you ended up with such beautifully antialiased copy Mystery solved!
Montsea
Super Hero
13 years ago

Here is the Story file and a video overview:

Source file
NataliaMueller
Community Member
13 years ago
Super cool, Montse. Thanks so much for sharing so much with us!
GonzaloRosetti
Community Member
13 years ago

Thank you Montse for letting us know your tips!

As the SL staff will be using your prototype for inspiring others, I am sure they will take notice of quiz questions in layers for the next update.

Cheers