Joel.Simone

During my Art History Class, Art-5: Art History - Renassiance to Modern, I was inspired to create a small flash quiz based on the instructors study guides. I created one quiz, but I wanted to take it a bit further by creating a compilation of all the quizzes. So this project exercises Flash development and serves as Art History review.

• Project Description
• The Art-5 Quiz (current version)
• Project Journal
• Comments

Project Description

Create a Art History quiz that encompasses all of the slides from my Art History class. The quiz will have an introductory page featuring a table of contents. The the table of contents will feature links to quizzes for each associated chapter, and each quiz will provide a simple scoring system. Also, each quiz will only load when being accessed, so the entire movie does not need to be loaded when the flash movie first launches. And a user may navigate back to the table of contents at anytime.

The Art-5 Quiz

Below is the current version of the Art-5 practice quizes. This quiz is also posted on my Art-5 class page.

Project Journal

• log 1 - First Entry: 9.4@8:18pm
  • I am returing to this project, so I will have to rehash on some old notes. I already have the simple structure for the quiz, and the next step is to create the structure for multiple quizzes and to build the navigation system. I will figure out how I will make the system navigate next.
• log 2 - Setting Up Navigation: 9.5@1am
  • I worked late into the night setting up the navigation, and I figured out a solution. I was tired, and I was making a silly mistake, e.g., using dynamic text as a button link. When dynamic text is used as a button link in flash, the button does not respond correctly. I figured this out just before calling it quits for the night.
• log 3 - Continuing Navigation: 9.13@12am
  • I continued working on the navigation. I set up the main quiz links and optimized the links for my urls. I still need to find a solution for the quiz home link. After I finish the navigation, I may began inserting all of the content, and this will take the most time.
• log 4 - Load Movie Function: 9.16@11:30pm
  • I read that it is not possible to set your flash movie to load only certain aspects of one move at one time. I am not sure how up-to-date this is, but I decided to go with the loadMovie( ) function instead. So I am now loading each test individually. The movies are unloaded with the unloadMovie( ) function when browsing back to the navigation.
• log 5 - Imported All Images For Test: 10.14@10:30pm
  • I imported all of the images for the test, and I set up all of the swf files (test files) to load separately. I still have to place the images for quizzes 1-3, update the answers for 1-4, and insert in mach answers for 1-5. It may be just as easy to do a flash card type solution, and this is something that I may do in the future, but I at least want to finish this project.
• log 6 - Finished the Content: 10.29@1:30am
  • I finished the content for the test, and I have created the link for the trial test above. I still need to finetune a few things here and there, but I think I should move on at this point. I will send an email to my Art-5 teacher, so he may allow students to test it out. I will then make corrections accordingly.