This is the 18th post in the Articulate 101 series. It was written by Articulate MVP Dr. Rob Blankenship, who uses Articulate tools to help power EMsono - Online Emergency Ultrasound Education.

The Hotspot question is an excellent way to add more interactivity to your Quizmaker quizzes. Let’s say that we are adding another question to your wildlife quiz we built yesterday. This time, though, we are not testing size, but rather we want to know if our users can correctly identify the clown fish, given three different animals.

The first step we need to do is open Quizmaker and then select New Quiz:

Now, you need to name your Quizmaker Quiz. For this example I named it Hotspot Quiz. Once you have named your quiz, select the Next button and then the Begin button:

You are now in the main Quizmaker program interface where you can add questions, set the quiz properties, etc. I want to add a Hotspot question, so I will click the Add Graded Question and then select the Hotspot option:

The Hotspot question interface will open and can easily be completed in a few short steps. First, we enter the question text in the text box provided:

Next, we click on Create Hotspot:

We then select the correct image to use for the hotspot — in this example is Combined Image.png. Once you have selected the correct image file, click on the Open button to finish inserting the image:

Once inserted, you will see the image and will be prompted to draw a rectangle over the correct area. What you are being asked to do is to draw a rectangle over the "correct" portion of the image:

As you can see below, I have drawn the rectangle over the clown fish. Once you have correctly drawn the rectangle, click the OK button:

You will now be taken back to the question interface and you are done. Simply click OK and your Hotspot question is complete!

You can view the published output or download the source Quizmaker project.

View the Hotspot Demo Quiz

Subscribe to the blog via email or RSS feed to make sure you don’t miss out on tomorrow’s tip.