Flash comes with a number of templates that you can use to save a lot of time in your projects. There are templates for:
To create a quiz choose File/New, open the Quiz folder on the right side of the New dialogue box and choose one of the three templates available.
The quiz template has five layers, Actions, Title, Interactions, Controls and Background.
The Interactions layer contains eight frames, six of which contain pre-built learning 'interactions', devices supplied by Macromedia to hold typical question styles.
To remove questions select the frames in all five layers for that question. To add frames select a column of frames across all five layers, press F4 to add frames and then copy from one frame to another on the Interactions row.
Instructions for configuring the quiz can be found in a box on the left side of the stage, use the scroll bar to move to it. To view the settings for the quiz click on the instructions box and then click on 'Launch Component Inspector' in the Properties panel.
(The Component Inspector has been resized to make it visible.)
Click on frame 6 in the Interactions layer to open the multiple choice interaction. As before the instructions are off-stage left.
Follow the instructions in the box: Break Apart, click away from the objects to de-select them, click back on the instruction box (as shown here).
The Component Inspector now shows the properties of the multiple choice question.
Here we can set the question, its possible answers and some other things too. The default question reads (in case you can't see it) 'Which of the following numbers divides by 3?' As you can see, three of the Correct boxes are set (for 9, 18 and 39).
The three buttons at the bottom of the Component Inspector are Start, Options and Assets. 'Start' is the current screen. Click on Options to change properties such as the number of tries, the feedback supplied and the score (weighting) awarded.
The other interaction types available are:
Click in frame 2 of the Interactions layer to view the Drag and Drop interaction.
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The Component Inspector now shows the properties for this style of interaction.
(Box resized again to make the text legible - just!) In this box you can change the ID of the question and enter the question itself and its multiple answers.
Click in frame 3 of the Interactions layer to view the Fill in the Blank interaction.
Follow the instructions in the box as before. In the Component Inspector you can enter a question and up to three answers. You can decide whether the answer should be case sensitive or an exact match.
Click in frame 4 of the Interactions layer to view the Hot Objects Interaction and follow the instructions as before.
To edit one of the 'hot objects' double click it, break it apart, delete parts you do not want and add other parts that you do. One way to use this interaction would be to add graphic objects to each box and then ask a question about identifying one particular type (such as an animal). The objects themselves are of type Movie Clip so you can, presumably, create your own objects from scratch and add them to the list in the Component Inspector Start page (don't forget to add an Instance Name in the Properties panel).
Click in frame 5 of the Interactions layer to view the Hot Spot Interaction.
You could add a graphic image to this style of interaction, stretch it across the hot spots and then ask a question about identifying a particular area of the image. The image could be displayed above or below the hot spots.
One issue with this style of question is that the cursor changes to a hand when a hot spot is detected so it is not very useful to have one correct hot spot in the question. The hot spots can be resized and moved around the image to provide alternative 'distractors' to the correct answer.
Click in frame 7 of the Interactions layer to view the True or False Interaction. This is easy to understand and should require no further explanation.
To create a presentation choose File/New, click the Templates tab and choose one of the Presentations.
Choose Window/Screens to bring up an outline of the presentation. The 'Presentation' screen is at the top of the hierarchy of screens in the presentation.