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Lesson 2: Making a Quiz Using HyperStudio |
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A HyperStudio quiz can utilize multimedia elements such as sound, graphics, and even video or path animation and more. These quizzes cannot gather data such as how many answers the student answered correctly or incorrectly, as some online quizzes can, but can be a good source of practice and review.
As a student goes through the questions, they can make a selection of the answer they believe is correct. HyperStudio can add sound effects to each answer choice to let students know if they got the answer correct or not. This will build upon the students memory of their answer choices, leading to a better knowledge of the material being tested. The student can have the choice of trying different answer choices and can always take the quiz more than once as a review/study tool. |
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Quiz Options |
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| You can create the quiz and lesson separately (with the option of connecting both stacks using hyperlinks) or you can include the quiz questions within the stack you create for the lesson. | ||
| 1.Example lesson of quiz questions within the lesson stack: | ||
| How to Write a Story (saved as stack-to-go) | ||
| 2.Example of separate lesson and quiz (you always have the option of creating a button that will hyperlink to the quiz stack). | ||
| When you save your stack, you usually save your project as a "stack" that will have the ending .stk You must have HyperStudio to view this stack unless you download the HyperStudio player. | ||
| Stacks-to-Go is a presentation tool that allows someone that does not have HyperStudio to view the stack. This saves your stack and creates an application that includes the HyperStudio Player. The version of the stack saved as a Stack-to-Go has an .exe ending to the file name. You can save your stack as a Stack-to-Go by using the Save As option and clicking on Stack-to-Go instead of as a HyperStudio stack (.stk). | ||
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Quiz Format |
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A quiz can include a variety of answer choice formats. You can use T/F, Multiple-Choice, or even a drag-n-drop matching. You can be creative as you make your quizzes.
The most simplest form of a quiz states the question and supplies sounds to let the student know if they selected the correct answer. More complex quizzes can feedback in the form of pop-up messages which takes a little more time to create. |
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This quiz gives the student more options on how to progress through the quiz. If you go back to the main menu, there are more opportunties to review again.
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| This quiz gives a review of vocabulary words at the beginning of the quiz and progresses through the quiz in a linear manner from card 1 to the end. An opportunity to review sounds for each vocabulary word is on the last card so the student can see what they may have missed | ||
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| 1. The first thing that you need to have is your list of questions and possible answer choices, whether T/F or multiple-choice. You will need to create a stack and select a background for the cards. Usually a quiz will have the same card background throughout the entire quiz. | ||
| 2. Decide navigation options, do you want the student to be able to go through the quiz in sequential order from card 1, 2, 3, and so on to the end? Maybe you would like to have an Index page of the questions, giving the student thechoice of which questions they would like to "tackle" first. The most common format is to have sequential cards guiding the students through the quiz from start to finish. | ||
| 3. Add sound to your answer choices to indicate if the answer is correct or incorrect if the student chooses that answer. | ||
| 4. You will need to add buttons to navigate through the quiz. | ||
| 5. Create the cards you need to put the answers on. It is best to have ONE multiple-choice question and the answer choices on a separate card. You may decide to put one or two T/F question per card depending on the space available on the card. If you use any graphics, videos to play, other visual or audio aids to help the student, you may want to limit that card to one question. | ||
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Part I: Putting Content on Your Card |
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| 1. Create your background image. Import a background or use a solid color from the paint palette. | ||
This card has a background imported from the Backgrounds folder in the HyperStudio Media Library. |
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| This card has a solid background made by clicking on the paint can tool in the Tools palette and selecting a color from the Colors Palette. (Remember that the Tools Palette and the Colors Palette are detachable menus that can be moved anywhere on your desktop for easy access). | ||
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2. Add your questions.
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It is best to insert a text object in which to type in your question and answer choices. This can be T/F, multiple-choice, matching, or the question format of your choice. For short individual words, you can use a button or a text object to type in your answers.
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| Quiz Examples: | ||
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| This quiz uses text which is typed on a text object (box). There is an invisible button over each answer choice that has a sound added to indicate if the answer is correct (a bell dings) or incorrect (a buzzer sounds). | ||
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| 3. Add sound to answer choices. | ||
| You will need to use buttons to add sound for the answer choices (correct/incorrect) and to navigate through the quiz. | ||
You can add sound to your invisible button if you used answer choices typed on a text object in sentence form-- |
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| If you used a button to write individual words or short answer choices, then the sound can be added to that button. | ||
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Part II: How to Add Sound to Your Buttons |
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| Whether you use a visible button you can see for as an answer choice, or as an invisible button over an answer choice in the form of a word or sentence in a text object, you add sound to the button in the same fashion. | ||
| 1. Go to Objects>Add a Button | ||
| 2. Select the type of button you want to use. The button type you choose will depend upon if the need an invisible button to go over an answer in sentence form or a button that IS an answer choice ( not more than 33 characters or letters). | ||
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| Button Types: | ||
| Button type 1-4 are visible buttons. You can which style button you need to use. Resize the button after you insert it on the card. | ||
| Button 4 is an invisible button. (If you click the Show Name or Show Icon box, you will not see a button background color, only the name or icon for that button). | ||
| Button type 5-8 will allow you to select an area on the card or on a graphic that you want to make a hotspot type area. | ||
| If you use an icon for the button, you need to make sure you have the Show Icon box checked on the Button Appearance card. If you want to show text on the button, you must check the Show Name box. | ||
| 3. Add Sound to the Button | ||
| After you insert the button on the card you need to double-click on the button to bring up the Button Appearance box | ||
| Make your selections on the button type. Click button 5 for an invisible button that will go over some text. Choose from buttons 1- 4 for a visible button that can be used as an answer choice. | ||
| Click ACTIONS to add a sound. | ||
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| 4. Select Play a Sound on the Actions box. | ||
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| Select the sound you would like to use for correct and incorrect. There are some good choices in the sample files and in the Sounds folder (HyperStudio Media Library). | ||
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| To "preview" the sound before you select it, you must bring the sound file into the Digital Audio Deck. You will see the sound file you selected from the Sounds folder in the top box on the right. Click the PLAY button to listen to your selection. If this is not what you want just click the Disk Library to go back to the Sounds folder. | ||
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| You can browse from the HyperStudio Media Library to other locations on your computer or other drive such as a portable "USB" drive for other sound files you may have stored somewhere else. Click on the the drop down box to browse to another location on your computer. | ||
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| You may have a sound file that you recorded yourself with the Sound Recorder (under Start>Accessories>Entertainment>Sound Recorder) or another program such as Sound Forge. Using a sound you recorded yourself is a good way to "personalize" your answers. | ||
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| Once you have selected the sound file you want to add, click OK on the Digital Audio Deck. | ||
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| 5. Select a Sound for Correct or Incorrect | ||
| To add sound to an answer choice in the form of a sentence, add an invisible button Go to Objects>Add a Button. Button # 5 will add an invisible button that you can drag over the sentence. If the answer choice is incorrect, choose a sound that will let the student know that this answer choice is incorrect. | ||
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| To add sound to the button that is used as an answer choice, double-click on the button. Click on Actions>Play a Sound. Pick a sound that would indicate that the student made a correct or incorrect sound. | ||
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Part III: Adding Buttons to Navigate through the Quiz. |
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| Besides using buttons to put sounds on your answer choices, you need to use them so the students can navigate through the quiz. | ||
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| 1. Go to Objects>Add a Button (to complete inserting your button, be sure to click somewhere on the card, this will bring up the Button Appearance box. Click OK after you make your button selections on button type, show name and/or icon, button background color and text color if you use a name). | ||
| You can use a button with text that says Next or Back or you can use an icon such as an arrow as seen in the image above (be sure to click the Show name box to show text and the Show Icon box to show an image). | ||
| 2. Go back and double-click on the button to bring up the Button Appearance box again, this time you will see where you can click on ACTIONS. | ||
| 3. On the Actions box you will be able to select where you want the "user" to go to for the next question. Click on ANOTHER CARD to browse through the cards in your stack to find the next card to go to. Click OK on the Move to Card box when you find the card you need. | ||
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Choose the transition you want the card to occur when going to the next card. You can choose various types of transitions and the speed the transition occurs. Click TRY IT to test the transition selected. You can make other selections after "trying it" if you are not satisfied. Click OK when you are finished adding the navigation to that button. |
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| Then add the navigation to the rest of the buttons in the quiz. | ||
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 To do this you must select the Browse (or hand) tool in the Tools Palette to test any actions added to buttons or objects. |
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Practice Session: Making a Quiz
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