Quiz Press

Adding a Interactive Media to a Question

In version 1.5 and beyond, Quiz Press lets you add interactive content (Flash .swf) to each question.

You must be using version 1.5 or higher of Quiz Press to use this feature. You can download it here.

Method 1: Loading Interactive Media (SWF)

  1. Find the question that you want to add interactive media (SWF) to (or create it).
  2. Click the Media button. A menu should appear. It's a button aligned with the right edge of the Question field and directly above it. (The blue-green image represents a painting of a sea-scape.)
  3. Choose Load Multimedia File... A file browser dialog should appear.
  4. Windows: Change the filter to show SWF files (i.e. Choose "Flash Interactive File (*.swf )" ).
    Mac: Skip this step, any available SWF files show automatically.
  5. Select the SWF file and dismiss the dialog.
  6. You can't preview your SWF file from within Quiz Press, but it's there.

Method 2: Using Drag and Drop.

  1. Find the question that you want to add interactive media (SWF) to (or create it).
  2. Drag and drop the SWF file onto the right hand side of the Quiz Press window.
  3. You can't preview your SWF file from within Quiz Press, but it's there.

Method 3: Using the Clipboard (a.k.a. Copy and Paste).

Note: Currently this method only works on Mac OS X.
  1. Copy the interactive media file (SWF) file to the clipboard from the Finder.
  2. Find the question that you want to add the SWF to (or create it).
  3. Click the Media button. A menu should appear. It's a button aligned with the right edge of the Question field and directly above it. (The blue-green image represents a painting of a sea-scape.)
  4. Choose Paste Multimedia From Clipboard.
  5. You can't preview your SWF file from within Quiz Press, but it's there.
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