Frank Zappa said, “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” Without sound, quizzes will become more boring. Sound can add a new dimension to quizzes. Quizzes with sound improve teacher options and student success. You can enhance the questions with sound and let quiz-takers hear questions as well as read them or spice up their experience.

Unlike traditional paper based test, everything is static. Computer based test will be more interactive and friendly if you adopt Flash quizzes. You could add multimedia files to quizzes such as sound to let quiz be more interactive and lively. Adobe Flash is good tool to make a Flash quiz, however, QuizCreator will be more easy-to-use for users to create Flash quiz with sound in minutes without script skills.

QuizCreator has two options for you to merge sounds into quiz, recording your voice and add external music.

1. Recording your own voice for quizzes is easy with QuizCreator.
You don’t need other 3rd party software to help you record it. The built-in record narration feature allows you record your voice and embed to quiz questions with ease. Click the question you want to add your sound, click Properties, click Sound -> Record

2. Importing music to questions is also simple.
If you already have sound files on your computer, you can insert these directly into the specified question. Click the question you want to add your sound, click Properties, click Sound -> Import Sound

Quizzes with sound will be more popular for teachers nowadays. In most popular lanuage test, such as IELTS, listening question type is one of the major question types. If you can add sound to the listening questions, such lanuage test could be taken on computer. Making a music quiz is also available, you could import short music clips to quiz and let students listen to it identify the composer. There are so many use of adding sound to quizzes. So, go ahead, add sound to your quizzes with QuizCreator!

We will see varieties of quizzes online while surfing the Web every day. These quizzes are plain text quizzes, JavaScript quizzes or interactive Flash quizzes. Flash quizzes are matter-of-course the most attractive quizzes to fresh your eyes no matter from its multimedia or interactivity. Now, this article will show you three ways to make an interactive Flash quiz.

Make a Flash quiz with Flash quiz maker

Making quiz with Flash quiz maker is the best way to make a quiz whether from the aspects of easy-to-use or functions. No programing skills required. About functions, Flash quiz maker also supports up to 10 question types. Not only could you set personalized feedbacks and time to each questions and quiz, you also could shuffle and randomize questions and answers. Furthermore, you could create Flash-based quizzes with multimedia elements, such as images, sounds, narrations, Flash movies and so on.  Take QuizCreator for example, you also could track the quiz results without hassles via its free quiz result tracking system.

Make a Flash quiz with Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is naturally the preferred tool to make Flash quizzes. If you have a good command of scripts, you could make a professional multimedia Flash quiz in minutes. If you don’t understand scripts, here are two ways for you.

1. Make a Flash quiz with Adobe Flash quiz template
   Adobe Flash MX or higher version includes quiz templates to allow users create Flash quiz with 6 interaction types: True/Flase, Fill in the Blank, Multiple Choice, Drag and Drop, Hot Spot and Hot Object. Each template has a different graphical look and feel.  You could create a professional Flash quiz with it easily. Click to view the tutorial about how to create Flash quiz with quiz templates.
   For detailed instructions on how to edit the quiz template to your requirements, learn the official Flash quiz template tutorial at http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/applications/quiz_tutorial/
2. Create a Flash quiz with ready-made tutorial
   There are many Flash quiz related tutorials on Web, just google “Flash quiz tutorial” you will get more detailed tutorials, such as:
   http://www.tu-world.com/flash/flash_tutorial_08.php
   http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/48/1/Creating-Flash-5-Quizzes/Page1.html
3. Make a Flash quiz with Scripts
   If you are good at Scripts, using Scripts to create Flash quizzes would be the most ideal way. This way of making quizzes is flexible, you can generate lots of different quiz in different style. Click to view how to create interactive multiple-choice Flash quiz in Adobe Flash CS4.

Make a Flash quiz with screen recorder

Using screen recorder to create interactive Flash quiz or game is an easy way. Many outstanding screen recorders have the quiz creation feature, such as Adobe Captivate and Camtasia. Although such tool is a little higher in price, they are good software for making quiz if you have both tools at hand. In compare, Adobe Captivate is more powerful in creating quiz. It contains advanced quizzing functionality that makes it easy to create your own robust quizzes and assessments with 6 question types.

If you want to use quizzes for assessment, you could use Flash quiz maker to create test for your learner, it will save you a lot of time, and such quiz tools are usually SCORM compliant supported. If you want to create quiz for fun, you could spend much time in learning Adobe Flash to make quizzes. If you have Adobe Captivate or Tech Smith, you could try to use it to make quizzes, it’s amazing!

QuizCreator supplies an easy way to create interactive Flash quiz for users, Adobe Flash also lets users make interactive Flash quizzes too. This tutorial will guide you how to create interactive drop-down multiple-choice quiz. It is just a sample of the workflow you’ll use while authoring in Adobe Flash CS4. You can view the Flash quiz created by Adobe Flash below.

Step 1 – Create a new document
a. Choose File > New.
b. In the New Document dialog box, selcet Flash File (ActionScript 2.0) and then Click OK.

Step 2 – Document settings
Right-click on the stage, selcet Document Properties, then the Document Properties dialog box appears. It displays the current Stage size setting as 550 × 400 pixels, and the Background color swatch is set to white. You can change the size and color of the Stage as you want.

Step 3 – Import image to the stage
Choose File > Import > Import to Stage, and then select the image you want. You also could click Ctrl+R to import image.

Step 4 – Add the multiple choice question to the Stage
a. Select the Text tool (T).
b. In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), select Static Text type to specify the type of text field, and then input the question ” What was Michael’s first song to air on MTV? “. You also could set the font size, family and color of the text.

Step 5 – Add ComboBox component
a. Select Window > Components.

b. Double-click ComboBox in the Components panel.
c. Select the component on the Stage, and name the instance name as box in the properties panel.

Step 6 – Add answer options
a. Select Window > Component Inspector. On the Component Inspector, click data, then the Value dialog box appears.

b. Click + to add answer options, and then replace the defaultValue as answer options, here the options are: thriller, billie jean, bad and the way you make me feel. After that, click OK.

c. On the Component Inspector, click labels, then the Value dialog box appears. Please following the same steps above to add the values by adding the + button.

Step 7 – Add submit button
a. Select Window > Common Libraries > Buttons, then the Libraries buttons dialog pop up.
b. Choose a button and drag it to stage.

c. Double-click the button, and then rename the button as Submit. You also could set the size of the button at the Propertites panel.

Step 8 – Insert a keyframe and delete the elements on the frame

Step 9 – At keyframe 2, insert a dynamic text box
a. Select the Text tool (T).
b. In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), select Dynamic Text type.
c. Draw a rectangular text box, this is the feedback area when quiz-takers choose the right or wrong answer.
d. Select the rectangular text box, and input jg to the Variable box at the Properties panel.

Step 10 – At At keyframe 2, add Back button
Just following the same steps at step 8 to add button rename the button as Back.

Step 11 – Open the Action panel and add scripts
a. Add scripts to Back button.Click the Back button, input the following scripts:
on (release) {
gotoAndStop(1);
jg = “”; }

b. Add scripts to Submit button.Click the Submit button, input the following scripts:
on (press) {
if (box.getValue() == “billie jean”) {
jg = “Sorry, wrong answer! Please select again!”;
}
if (box.getValue() == “bad”) {
jg = ” Sorry, wrong answer! Please select again!”;
}
if (box.getValue() == “the way you make me feel”) {
jg = ” Sorry, wrong answer! Please select again!”;
}
if (box.getValue() == “thriller”) {
jg = “Congratulations! Triller is Michael’s first song to air on MTV”;
}
gotoAndStop(2);
}
c. Add scripts on frame 1. Click frame 1, input the following scritps:
stop();

Step 12 – After these steps, the question is created. You could follow these steps to create more multiple choice questions

If these steps are too complicate to you, you can choose Wondershare QuizCreator to help you, it is a good Flash quiz maker that helps everyone create multiple Flash quiz without programming skills.