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Articulate Studio Cookbook

By : Robert Kennedy III, Robert Kennedy
Book Image

Articulate Studio Cookbook

By: Robert Kennedy III, Robert Kennedy

Overview of this book

More and more companies find they need to build their training courses internally. They are turning to tools like Articulate Studio because it is easy to use and doesn't have a steep learning curve. If you are familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint in any way, you should feel right at home with Articulate Studio."Articulate Studio Cookbook" will get you ready to add Articulate Studio to your enterprise toolkit. This book gives you detailed yet simple steps to complete your training course. By following the clear steps in each chapter, you will gain an understanding of the software but also be able to complete specific tasks and common activities.The good thing about this book is that you can start anywhere and get the information that you need for a specific activity. Cross-references are provided if there is a skill located elsewhere that you need to complete a task.It can be frustrating to pick up a new piece of software and not know where to begin. With Articulate Studio, there is a whole suite of software to work with. You need to know how to work with Presenter, Engage, Quizmaker and Encoder to make great Articulate courses. Then, you'll need to know how to put them all together in a way that makes a professional looking, cohesive and smooth-flowing course. We'll make it easy to follow step by step until you have a professional course."Articulate Studio Cookbook" will help you go from Studio newbie to Studio guru. Dive in and choose your recipe.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Articulate Studio Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up a quiz template


To set up any type of quiz, we're going to need a template. Just like in Presenter, this template is for the program's "skin" and not for the content of the quiz or course itself.

Getting ready

You'll need to open the Articulate Quizmaker program. Once open, select Create a new quiz from the opening screen. Since we are going to create a quiz template, select the tab in the dialog box that says Graded Quiz and click on the OK button.

Quizmaker's main screen will open, showing you the Home ribbon that says No questions in the list of questions, as shown in the following screenshot:

How to do it…

Any quiz template you create can be used with multiple quizzes; this is one of the ways that you can create the "branding" of a teaching series or of your company. To set up a quiz template, perform the following steps:

  1. On the Home ribbon click on the Player Templates button. This will open the Player Template Manager dialog box, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. There are...