Best practice for “click anywhere to continue”
I am wondering what is the best practice to implement a “click anywhere to continue”? Should I place a transparent button over the entire slide and link it to the continue action? Is there a better option?
good question very useful – what did you end up doing?
If this is not linked to quiz slides (because you mentioned the exact sentence appearing in the second step of the Submit process) and you need this functionality on all or a sequence of content slides I would use another approach. The requirement is as always that you cannot have another interactive object on the slide.
Create a dedicated master slide. Insert a shape button covering the master slide completely, or an empty SVG/PNG used as button . Take out the Fill and Stroke for the shape button in all states. It will have by default the action ‘Go to Next Slide’ but you can edit the action. You will not have an automatic hint caption. All slides based on this master slide need to have the option ‘Master slide objects on top’.
If you need the hint caption/shape ‘Click….’ put it on the first slide of the sequence of slides using the master slide, always on top.
You cannot use a click box on a master slide. Advantage of the master slide approach is that the interactive object will always adapt to the duration of each slide and have its pausing point at the last frame. It avoids a lot of manipulation of durations and pausing points on all slides.
Thanks.
So, if I understood you correctly the best way is to use a transparent button but place that on the corresponding master slide and not on the slide itself. I appreciate it.
You cannot use a transparent button on a master slide. I mentioned the three buttons which are possible: a shape button, a SVG used as button or a bitmap image as button. Since it needs to be ‘invisible’ I proposed a shape button with Alpha=0 ad Stroke=0.
A transparent button is the default choice on a normal quiz slide, but cannot be used on a master slide.
All about the 6 types of buttons in:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/overvew-6-button-types
Thanks. I am still learning the language. I should not have called it transparent since that word is reserved for something else. I meant invisible. But I understood what you wrote. Once more, thanks.
I guessed that was the case. Terminology is a pain, when you answer multiple questions on a daily base everywhere. That is the reason I try to be as consistent as possible in using Captivate’s terminology. It is complicated enough.
I would likely use a click-box resized for the entire slide for regular slides. If there are other interactions on the slide you may wish to delay the appearance of the click-box until all that stuff is complete. There is no reason to do this for question slides.
Thanks.
The reason why I want to have this in a slide with a question is that the standard question slide does not seem to be useful for the application that I am trying to do. I want the user to only have to click once to select the response (not two -the choice plus the submit button) and then one more time to continue after they read the feedback.
You talk about the second step of the Question Submit Process. This is the third similar question you post. Please look at my answer on one of your other questions. You need to read at least this blog post from the list I mentioned:
Captivate’s Quizzes (2): Submit Process – eLearning (adobe.com)
There is no reason whatsoever to add a transparent button to a quiz slide, which is also simply impossible. You could add a shape button, but it will be below the stack of all embedded objects, only leading to issues.
I start to understand why you compare PPT with Captivate, which is a real insult for Captivate IMO. I can use Captivate for a presentation (easier to convert to a self-controlled course) but not the way round. PPT has not the tools necessary to create engaging eLearning assets. Quizzes are just one of them.
Yes, I posted three separate question because I am asking three different things and people tend to respond only one when they find a post that includes multiple questions. They are related but they are different.
Thanks for all your posting regarding quizzes. However, what I am looking to develop is not a quiz but a teaching object. An object that instead of being one paragraph that the learner needs to passively read, they have to interact/build as they read it. In other words, after one or two sentences appear, a word or something will be missing from them. Something that the learner can very easily spot. And they need to include what was missing for the system to continue showing the rest of the paragraph. This way the learner is interacting with the system as the system is “lecturing” them. But a lecture that requires interactions. Easy and quick interactions.
I am not trying to insult anyone when I compare PPT with Captivate. Captivate allows the user to do far many things that cannot be done in PPT but at the same time it is much more difficult to learn and some of the simple actions are easier done in PPT. But do not underestimate PPT; with some of the add-ons in the market, it can be used to develop eLearning assets. Again, assets that could also be developed with Captivate but for those that can be done in PPT, they can be done faster and easier there.
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