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

PhuPham
Community Member
10 years ago
HI all

I have created a video quiz with light boxes. It has been wonderful until i ran into a small problem: i cant get the result from the questions in light box.

I did exactly the same process of creating a result slide as instructed. However, it didnt show up the result in the result slide.

Could anyone help me please. Thanks in advance.
- Montsea
  Super Hero
  10 years ago
  Hello Phu!
  
  Did you use Storyline's built in Quiz or Freeform slides? If you did, then you should be able to select the questions to track and score in your Results slide. Here's what mine looks like:
  
  Do you want to attach your .story file so I can take a look at it?
PhuPham
Community Member
10 years ago
Hi Montse

Please have a look at my file and help me fix this issue @@
Phu_s.story12.8 MB
- Montsea
  Super Hero
  10 years ago
  Thanks! This is easy to fix:-)
  
  You just need to select which quiz questions to Include in your results slide. There are checkboxes for each quiz in the Edit Results slide options. Just select each box to include the question in your results.
  - PhuPham
    Community Member
    10 years ago
    Arghhh
    
    I forgot to have these questions checked. Thank you so much for your time :D
WaleedArr-edfa5
Community Member
8 years ago
Hi, Where can i download this template from?
GabrielaAnton-0
Community Member
8 years ago
Hi, Montse!

There is another way to add trackable quizzes, instead insterting quiz questions as individual slides as lightboxes?

Thanks in anticipation of a reply.
MalvikaMalhotra
Community Member
4 years ago
Hi,

Few links are not working now.

Any suggestions on how to make videos interactive in storyline 3.

I have videos created in Goanimate/Vyond - can I make them interactive by embedding in storyline.

Regards

Malvika
- SarahHodge
  Former Staff
  4 years ago
  Hi Sanchit! This article shares some ideas (and examples!) on how to create interactive videos in Storyline. Although the title says 360, the ideas in the article also work for Storyline 3 (e.g. layers and hotspots). I believe you'll need to add the videos into Storyline to give you more control and to make them interactive. Hope that helps!