Charles Sturt University

Module Six

Creating a Quiz for Interactivity and Assessment

You’d like to increase student engagement with content, or want assess your student’s knowledge or understanding of a concept or topic and want to incorporate it into their learning. Including a quiz or activity into the learning medium of Captivate is a way of making learning more interactive and assessing understanding, either self or teacher, at the same time.

Using taxonomies like Blooms’ revised digital taxonomy or John Biggs’ SOLO taxonomy to guide design and development, you can build interesting and engaging learning resources that allow students to learn and assess their own learning. Think about what you want students to do with their knowledge and this will help guide how you might best engage them in learning.

You can create a quiz to assess the user’s understanding of the demonstrated feature. Adobe Captivate provides a wide variety of question slides that you can incorporate into your quiz. You can keep your quiz unpredictable by picking questions from a question pool, or by shuffling the answers for a question every time the slide is displayed. You can extend the variety of question slides available in Adobe Captivate by creating question widget slides in Adobe Flash, and inserting them into Adobe Captivate projects. To learn more go to the Captivate help file on Quizzes.

You can set quiz preferences to guide students through the quiz. You can give options to skip questions or require them to be answered. There are options to review the quiz and feedback boxes to guide students to correct answers. You can choose to score the quiz or not, and set the pass/fail mark. Students can email a message on completion of the quiz.

Captivate 4 allows you choose a number of different types of question slides. The list is below, click here to open a pdf that describes more information about each type of question slide.

Multiple Choice: Users select one or more correct answers from a list.
True/False Users: choose either True or False (or Yes or No).
Fill-In-The-Blank: Users complete a blank in a sentence or phrase.
Short Answer: Users supply a word or phrase.
Matching: Users match entries in two lists.
Hot Spot: Users move the pointer over areas on the slide.
Sequence: Users arrange listed items in the correct sequence.
Rating Scale (Likert): Users indicate their level of agreement with statements.

Look at this table to get a greater understanding of learning objectivess and examples of each type.

View the Captivate presentation for more information about different question types and experience how they work in Captivate. Click on the required tab in the table of contents to go directly to the slide.