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Report on interactive elements, such as whether or not the
viewer clicked in the right place or entered the correct text in
a text entry box. This type of interaction takes place on normal
slides during the course of the movie. You'll need to create the
interactive element (such as a click box or button) as well as
the instructions for it (usually with a text caption and optional
highlight box).
Have the viewer read and answer question slides. A question
slide is a unique type of slide that sits between the other
slides in your movie and displays a question in any of a variety
of formats (such as multiple choice or short answer ques-
tions). The interactivity is already built in, and all you have to
do is input the questions and answers. You can also include
some questions that will be graded (pass or fail) and others
that are not graded (survey questions).
Decide what you want to have happen if the viewer enters the cor-
rect answer or clicks in the right spot, and what you want to have
happen if the viewer doesn't do the right thing. For example, you
can pause the movie until the viewer clicks the right location or
answers the question correctly, or display a different slide depend-
ing on whether the input is right or wrong. The display of different
slides lets you give the viewer choices in the way the movie dis-
plays. This is described more in Chapter 11, “Working with the
Branching View.”
Decide whether or not to use the quizzing functions to store and
display a summary that shows how the viewer did overall. This is
in addition to the success or failure captions that display for each
interactive element or question. You can even decide to track
some interactive elements and not others within the movie.
If you use a quiz, decide what a passing score should be, what
should happen when the viewer gets a passing score, and what
should happen when the viewer doesn't pass. For example,
will there be an option to try again? Will you let the viewer
keep watching the movie or go to another area? You could also
run some JavaScript based on the viewer's score (pass or fail).
If you use a quiz, decide what you will do with the data once
it's collected. You can have the results e-mailed to you, or cre-
ate output files that you can then integrate with other
programs.
