Storyline 2 - the plot thickens
So officially, Microsoft owe me one mouse.
They can have the remains of the one I hurled across the room in total, utter and complete frustration.
Why?
I spent some time creating a quiz in Quizmaker, and I don't mind saying myself it was truly a thing of beauty. Illustrated, animated, and superbly designed (at least I think so, and I think the dogs liked it too).
But then it all started to go wrong.
After finding both video and written instructions on how to import such a creation in to Storyline 360, which I followed to the letter, I found that some of the formatting in the quiz did not come through, some of the questions disappeared and some of the responses were changed. On top of that, some of the formatting in the unrelated content also seems to have been changed.
Putting it right took the better part of the day, I even started to manufacture the quiz within Storyline before realizing that doing it that way excludes some of the functionality and formatting I used and wanted.
No doubt there is some hero out there who will glibly tell me that if only I had applied ............ all this would have been avoided, but that would be too little too late, and frankly after the full screen video debacle, would have been difficult to stomach.
I looked this up on Google to find that others had also experienced similar issues from time to time. I also suspect that the edition of Storyline that I am using, which is temporary, has had certain functionality switched off and that has also had an impact.
So, one mouse please Bill (and not one of those cheap Microsoft ones either).
Quizmaker itself, takes about 5 minutes to get the hang of, is very easy to use, and produces really good quizzes, subject to the questions. There are lots of ready made templates as you would expect, and lots and lots of different forms of questions that can be used.
I actually enjoyed using it.
They can have the remains of the one I hurled across the room in total, utter and complete frustration.
Why?
I spent some time creating a quiz in Quizmaker, and I don't mind saying myself it was truly a thing of beauty. Illustrated, animated, and superbly designed (at least I think so, and I think the dogs liked it too).
But then it all started to go wrong.
After finding both video and written instructions on how to import such a creation in to Storyline 360, which I followed to the letter, I found that some of the formatting in the quiz did not come through, some of the questions disappeared and some of the responses were changed. On top of that, some of the formatting in the unrelated content also seems to have been changed.
Putting it right took the better part of the day, I even started to manufacture the quiz within Storyline before realizing that doing it that way excludes some of the functionality and formatting I used and wanted.
No doubt there is some hero out there who will glibly tell me that if only I had applied ............ all this would have been avoided, but that would be too little too late, and frankly after the full screen video debacle, would have been difficult to stomach.
I looked this up on Google to find that others had also experienced similar issues from time to time. I also suspect that the edition of Storyline that I am using, which is temporary, has had certain functionality switched off and that has also had an impact.
So, one mouse please Bill (and not one of those cheap Microsoft ones either).
Quizmaker itself, takes about 5 minutes to get the hang of, is very easy to use, and produces really good quizzes, subject to the questions. There are lots of ready made templates as you would expect, and lots and lots of different forms of questions that can be used.
I actually enjoyed using it.
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