Course Web Site Development: Additional Website Components: Web Based Animation Tools: Macromedia Flash: Basic Online Quiz

This exercise will take you through an example of a basic online quiz implemented using Flash v5.0.  To work through this exercise, you must have Flash 5.0 installed.  To install the product, please click here for instructions.

This is what your online quiz will look like when it's completed:

1. Open Flash v5.0
2. Create a new Movie (File->New)
3. Open up the Flash Learning Extensions library  (Window->Common Libraries->Learning Interactions).  This library contains the resources necessary to create quizzes and tests.
4. We're going to create a basic quiz using a multiple choice question.  Drag the symbol labeled "Multiple Choice" out onto the stage.
5. Center the question on the stage.  If necessary, change your magnification level (View->Magnification).
6. Click once on the question and click on Window->Panels->Clip Parameters.
7. If the Clip Parameters window is too small, enlarge it by grabbing onto the corner of it with your mouse and dragging it out.
8. Make your clip parameters look like this:
   
   
   
9. Save your quiz (File->Save As).
10. Publish your quiz (F12)
11. Now you can see how your quiz will look in a web browser.  Pretty neat, huh?

Go on to the next exercise to see how to create quizzes with more than one question in them.