How To Add A Quiz In Storyline Youtube

Hither's How Easy It Is to Add a Time Limit to Your Storyline Quiz

January 17 2013

Sometimes, enforcing a time limit on a quiz just makes sense—like when you lot're assessing learners' performance on a series of time-critical tasks. Or when you just want to create a bit of time pressure so learners submit their answers without overanalyzing.

Clear Storyline offers a super-simple way to add a time limit to your quiz. Hither'south how:

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Insert a Result Slide in your projection. If you already have a consequence slide, go to that slide in Normal View and click the Edit Result Slide button.
When the Effect Slide Properties window appears, find the pick almost the bottom called Stop quiz later __ minutes. Mark the checkbox and enter the number of minutes you want to allow for the quiz.
Use the Start timer and Timer format options to gear up your preferences for when the timer begins, and what you lot want it to expect like.

That'due south it! At present but click OK to shut the Result Slide Properties window.

When yous publish your project, the timer appears in the upper-right of your class player (see the picture at the top of this article for an example). If learners don't finish your quiz within the time allowed, a bulletin pops upwards, indicating they've hit the time limit. When they click OK, they'll exist able to submit their answer for the question they're currently viewing, simply not whatever of the remaining questions.

How to customize the "time'south up" message

Want to change the wording on the popular-up message that learners come across when they run out of time? It but takes a few steps to customize it:

On the Home tab, click Histrion and so Text Labels.
Curlicue to items 92 and 93, and enter your own text in the Custom Text column.
Click OK.

Need more details on customizing your Storyline player's text labels? Check out this tutorial.

How to customize the colors on the timer

If you're non crazy almost the default colors that Storyline applies to your quiz timer, no problem—y'all can change them:

On the Home tab, click Player and and then Colors & Effects.
Click Show advanced color editing.
Use the Edit item dropdown selector to choose Timer, and then select the timer item you want to change. You can choose any color you similar for the selected item, or fifty-fifty enter a specific color value:
Click OK when y'all're finished.