Camtasia: How To Make Interactive Video Quizzes

Create engaging, effective, and interactive learning videos using the powerful quiz feature in Techsmith's Camtasia.
More than just screen-recording and editing software, Camtasia has a number of interactive authoring features built right in, like it's quiz feature. But there’s way more to Camtasia’s quiz feature than just being able to ask your viewer a bunch of questions. With the right thinking and a few tweaks, you can turn a standard Camtasia quiz into an engaging, effective, and interactive learning experience for your eLearning videos, or online course.
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[@benjaminjohn6711]

Michael, your way of teaching is FABULOUS. You are very thorough & clear in your explanations. You don't RUSH as many trainers do. Bravo. Really appreciate it. Thank you.

[@kasraakbari229]

how great this video was, you talk pretty friendly that I didn't want this tutorial to end!

[@prosperci1496]

Great presentation style Michael.... slow enough for a new learner to follow, fast enough to keep it smoothly flowing!!! Well done!

[@anhocvoitumay1652]

Excellent presentation style. I like the way you take your time to explain the video, calm..

[@kiwitinajqs9417]

This would be one of the best tutorials I have seen in a long time. Pleasure to watch ! Thank you.

[@MacVideoMagic]

Thank you, Tina! So glad you enjoyed it.

[@mjhornidge]

Not going to lie. I am seriously inspired by your ability to articulate. I came to this video wanting to create fun learning videos. Now I am wondering how can I become a great speaker like yourself. Teach me!!

[@dpgoguen]

Excellent job. Very clear and easy to follow. Thank you.

[@IvanMana]

Excellent presentation and speaking skills

[@inventpal6176]

Thanks, that was a great introduction of how to start using the quiz feature of Camtasia.

[@faruqhsj]

Brilliant illustration with right pace to explain dear Michael ! So trustworthy training.

[@jakwire]

Michael - can you share a link for an example video quiz?

[@dgmaudiovisual8784]

Congrats, you explain real well. Thank you and keep on going.

[@workingTchr]

That was really cool where you appeared in the Camtasia canvas while talking about it!

[@hanial7720]

Michael, This really great tutorial to watch. I am curious to know what type of microphone did you use for this video?

[@sidragona1304]

Excellent video, well worth the 7 mins or so. Good Job Michael!

[@magik_wand]

Great content. I've never tried building a quiz in Camtasia. I'd always used Captivate for this. Thank you!

[@danielking6264]

Michael - just found you today. Whew! :) Thank you for VERY good video training. Your pacing is just right for following along. Really appreciate the walkthrough of this and the Hotspot feature. Now subscribed and looking forward to learning more from you. Never too old to learn. :) Much thanks. - Daniel

[@thoberlin]

Great video! Where is the link about the learning tools you have talken in your video? Thanks.

[@gleebgreek8060]

Your video on Camtasia is extremely thorough from beginning to end and very informative without the price of having to subscribe to a teaching website, although it would be very cost effective if you did charge. The lessons about Interactive hot-spots and the interactive quiz ability of the the software supplied every answer i had about those features. I can now move forward to creating my videos. I did subscribe and sign up for the emails for extra free information . I wish all my teachers had been this thorough during my secular education. Thanks!

[@pelyhkonst]

Thank you, Michael. And where I can download your Video Learning Toolkit Resource List? I didn't find the link in your video or in the description.

[@fhunjunkie]

Thanks! Very informative.

[@anakey]

Hi, I've just discover this feature and I find it very interesting. Do you know if it's compatible with LMS? We currently use Cornerstone and we can upload SCORMs in zip files, but I'm not sure about this.

[@pattysullivan4378]

Pretty cool! What a great tool to have for fast feedback.

[@robojobot77]

Great breakdown! Thank you.

[@sarrabenamara9196]

that was really helpful .... thank you

[@Ged-Pagan]

A very helpful and really well explained video... thank you

[@jackmaley]

Can the look of the question pop up window be changed?

[@lisabircham8955]

Thanks for this. Do you happen to know if a Camtasia video can be converted to a SCORM file so it can be loaded onto an LMS?

[@timwochat]

Great presentation skills and... great voice! Thanks...

[@shabnammokhtar9927]

Hi Michael, thank you so much. I've been really enjoying your videos. A quick question if you don't mind. Once I've exported the file and play it on a LMS, I can only see the quiz the first time I play it. If i replay the video, the quiz doesn't appear. I need to refresh the LMS for it to load again. Is there a setting that I could use to allow the quiz to appear even if i hit replay? I am using the Mac version of Camtasia btw. Thank you so much.

[@jackiceful]

Question pls: if all project hosted on camtasia server can we easily grab a link to post on a different webpage or a blackboard software as a link or as an embedded video? Thanks for your time

[@georgehirsch9152]

Thank You so much! You are a Godsend to teachers like me who aare doing distance learning!

[@wayneterp]

Can you track if the user answered the questions correctly, save the results and report on that ?

[@benjaminjohn6711]

Hy Michael, you're a fantastic teacher. I understood every word & Camtasia tool & technique you taught in this video. Admirable. Most teachers don't understand their students learning processes. Generally, their presentations are good. Their knowledge is good. But many a time, there is difficulty figuring out some of the things that they teach in terms of articulation, slang, or speed. Easy to learn from your videos. I am an audio & video producer from Singapore. I am into producing e-Learning courses. I understood every word you said. Thank you very, much Michael. Camtasia should employ you to teach educators to learn how to speak in their e-Learning programs. Applaud you. Thanks again

[@edmonpadre2287]

Can pcloud be used instead of screencast or aws? Thank you!

[@wandererontheloose7573]

Hello Michael! I was trying my hands on making interactive video through camtasia. I did all the editing. It looks good. But when I am running it in the browser, there is one problem. I have set the interactive video to jump on a particular marker. When I click on any option it jumps to that marker but the video is paused and doesn't resumes automatically after clicking on the hotspot. Can you identify what the problem could be?

[@cherylwitteman7843]

Are there any issues uploading interactive quizzes to a SCORM-compliant LMS? Thank you so much for putting this together.

[@betteranimation3999]

Thank you very much. As always your answers are full of valuable practical content that makes perfect sense. Please keep up the great work and service you provide to assist newbies like myself and others. Thank you my friend!

[@MacVideoMagic]

Will do!

[@benjaminjohn6711]

My style is kind of similar in teaching. But, I am learning quite a bit from your CALM style of getting education across to students. Bravo Michael.

[@scottduke9713]

Very clear and very professional

[@yonielbaz7664]

it was realy nice and simple and modest way to explain one of the most powerfull tools for educators. i wil be looking for mor of your videos. thank you yoni

[@gaznawiali]

Hi Michael. I want to create a language course to make available on Teachable or Udemy. So far I've created a few slides in Powerpoint but I want to be able to include interactive grammar and vocabulary tests at the end of each lesson. Is Powerpoint able to do that or should I use Camtasia or something else? I'm probably not going to include screenshots or use my webcam. I will only use slides. And which microphone would be best for the project? My budget is about $200. Thank you.

[@annmarieelacqua901]

Can you also upload your interactive quiz to Moodle Cloud instead of Screencast?

[@tracyclark465]

Very informative thank you

[@bobjones7274]

I thought adobe had some way of exporting the responses to specific quiz questions. There are some commercial sites which do have webhooks for this, but they are monthly fee sites.

[@mikebeutner798]

Excellent, Michael. Just excellent. Expect an email from a professor in Louisiana...

[@gomyclass]

Excellent video, thanks

[@FatihVideographer]

Hi ! What kind of video players can open these videos ?

[@damadorian]

Excellent job

[@marwaazab1561]

Can you export to Canvas? Blackboard?

[@enriqueacevedo682]

Hello Michael. I've uploaded a quizz to my webpage. But , is it possible to share it through social such as facebook or youtube?

[@DucMinhTeaching]

hi Micheal, thank you for the video, can you please explain what is the difference between "Add Quiz to Timeline" and "add Quiz to Selected Media". Thank you

[@MacVideoMagic]

"Adding Quiz to Timeline" means your quiz is locked to the point or timecode on the timeline. Works fine, but if you change your mind and start re-arranging clips on your timeline, your quizzes may be out of sync with where you want them to appear. "Add Quiz to Selected Media" sticks your quiz to a piece of media, so if you change things around in your timeline, the quiz will travel with the media clip its pinned to and stay in sync.

[@DangerouslyRelaxed]

This is a GREAT video! Thanks! My question, though, is about uploading this to my server. .. Do you know how much space this will use for a 25-30 minute video? My courses will consist of around 600 videos - all in. Am I looking at a dedicated server that has 4+ TB of memory?? I thought Vimeo would be the way to go because then I could just embed them on my site, BUT that won't work with the interactivity on Camtasia. Am I even making sense? :-) Thanks for any help you can give!!

[@gleebgreek8060]

my estimate is that an hour long video on a DVD is close to 3 to 4 gigabytes. in your situation perhaps 2 gigabytes would suffice. I believe 1 terabyte would be 900 gigabytes. hope this helps.

[@haynesis]

Great vid thanks

[@jakeianmartinez9902]

Hey I remember you. Your from Inquiring minds from TV Ontario. :D

[@seanmcafee9909]

Hi Michael, Yet another great tutorial. Will Camtasia interactivity work with courses on Teachable?

[@MacVideoMagic]

To use Camtasia interactivity on Teachable you would have to export and host the interactive Camtasia project (it's basically a mini-website) on a web server. Then you would use an (html code) to embed your interactive Camtasia project on a page in your Teachable course, if they allow that. You may want to check with Teachable's tech support.

[@bobbiehennessy4636]

This was an excellent video with very pertinent information. Your delivery style is some of the BEST I have found yet with training videos. I appreciate the information and subscribed to your channel. Thanks, Bobbie

[@bertwesler1181]

Excellent presentation thank you. Once you loaded the video onto your server or one of the other options you give him a then function interactively on KZbin?

[@MacVideoMagic]

Unfortunately, no. KZbin only plays videos.

[@bertwesler1181]

@@MacVideoMagic I see. Thank you very much for the quick response I appreciate it and I also very much enjoyed your presentation very clear very accurate and very well said Thank you. Keep up the good work. Also, your fast response just made me a subscriber.

[@betteranimation3999]

Hi Michael, I am not sure if this is the best platform to be asking this question but here goes. Could I use the interactive features on the social media networks? Beat regards, Paul

[@MacVideoMagic]

Thanks for the question! Videos using Camtasia's interactive features (quizzing, hotspots) need to be hosted on a web sever to work. There's a bunch of javascript code that needs to run to make the interactivity work. Social media platforms, to my knowledge, can't support that code. What you could do is host your interactive video on Amazon S3, screencast.com, or your own web server, then link to that from your social media platform.

[@kangkhang7341]

Once uploaded into the web cloud as you said, would the interactive video then work on any platforms I upload the mp4 onto? For example, in Salesforce, Bigtincan, Highspot, Litmos, etc.?

[@MacVideoMagic]

You would need to upload the interactive quiz files to a web server and create a webpage, then link to that page. The mp4 is just the video, no interactive capabilities.

[@andrewratner572]

Hi Michael, Thanks for the great tutorial. One of the great features of Camtasia that I also found is the "hotspot" feature. What I love about that feature is that you can also make a quiz function with that, let's say for a software training. A limitation I see with this, however, is that you can't link any of the data analytics functions with that kind of interactivity. So I was wondering: do you have experience with combining the quiz and hotspot features in such a way that 1) software training would mimic real-time usage, and 2) you can have the ability to gather data? I'd love to see the possibilities. All the best!

[@MacVideoMagic]

Thanks for the time and effort on your comment, Andrew. Sounds like you're talking about using Camtasia for software simulation. I've never done that. Not to say it isn't possible, but it I think it would take a lot of manual effort, depending on how "real-time" you want it to be. If you only have a few hotspots (choices) it might be manageable. There is software specifically for creating software simulations. Adobe Captivate is one of the most popular. To gather data (I assume you're talking about tracking for a learning management system, or to email results) you could connect your hotspot to a quiz. Remember, a quiz is just a location on the timeline or a media clip. So, when the user clicks the hotspot, you set it to jump to the spot on the timeline or media clip containing the quiz. You would need to modify the quiz settings, so they work with your instructional goals. And it would take a lot of organization (as most good interactivity does).

[@FinancingLife]

Also, do you know of any good examples that I could be inspired from ?

[@MacVideoMagic]

Working on a few ideas. 😉

[@TheNotoriousGallery]

Can i make a quizz and upload it to KZbin? And After i make it and upload it to screencast whats next?

[@ton7468]

Is there a video editor similar to Camtasia that will allow me to download MP4 videos? I plan on using these features to make my own video course then selling it on my website.

[@MacVideoMagic]

Do you mean edit MP4 files? What exactly are you trying to do?

[@betteranimation3999]

This is an awesome video, thank you. If I can be half as good as you, I would be extremely happy.

[@MacVideoMagic]

Thank you for the kind words! Glad you liked it.

[@daveking7044]

Is Camtasia still considered to be the leader in interactive quizzes for training videos? It's been 3 years since you posted this video. Thank you!

[@kingofmemphis9265]

I'm looking to create video for people to watch, take quiz and earn a certificate for passing it. I also want to add a link for them to pay for it before they can view it. My website is a free Wix account, so can I embed it there. Is Camtasia the right software for me?

[@ramanaresh9981]

can we upload that video in youtube with interactive quiz. i mean that whether there is any way to upload camtasia video to youtube with quiz . or i cannot ha

[@MacVideoMagic]

You cannot.

[@jackmaley]

Any examples of a video quiz you've done with Camtasia? Thanks!

[@MacVideoMagic]

Not at the moment. I've been getting a few requests for a Camtasia video quiz tutorial, so I'll be putting one together very soon.

[@benresnick]

Hi, I am wondering if there are any examples or instructions for people putting the quiz onto their own website. I read that is an option. Thanks!

[@MacVideoMagic]

Hi Ben, is your site on WordPress?

[@benresnick]

Yes, Wordpress with Divi theme

[@MacVideoMagic]

Hi Ben, will be coming out with a tutorial on that soon. Seems to be a popular request.

[@MrEye4get]

Is Camtasia in the same class as Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere? Pricewise they are close. In what niche does Camtasia fit? It appears aimed more at e-training editing and presentations. I'm confused.

[@MacVideoMagic]

I wouldn't put in the same class with FCPX or Premiere Pro. Camtasia's primary focus is screen recording, then editing those recordings using text, callouts, annotations, animations. Editing camera video is not its strength. You can do basic editing, but in my experience it can have issues with camera files (laggy). I have used Camtasia to create course content involving images, voice-over, text and animation, with a few video clips thrown in. Worked pretty well. And you can use it to create interactive videos, involving quizzes and clickable buttons (hotspots). That's pretty unique. But I wouldn't cut a film on it. 🙂

[@MrEye4get]

@@MacVideoMagic Thank you for the clear and understandable explanation. I do enjoy your videos!

[@rivalproductions3335]

Do you know if there a way to show the viewer the cumulative results of the quizzes from the video at the end?

[@MacVideoMagic]

I know you can have more than one question in a quiz and display the cumulative results of all the questions by selecting Display Results in the quiz settings. Not sure if you can show the cumulative results of all quizzes in your video at the end of the video. I'll look into it.

[@rivalproductions3335]

Were you able to find anything out?

[@MacVideoMagic]

From what I can tell, each quiz in your video is treated as an independent entity. Users can see the results of each separate quiz, but not a results summary of all the quizzes in the video at the end. Only the quiz creator can see a summary of all the quiz results in a video, and that's only possible through Techsmith's Quiz Reporting Service. You set that up through the Quiz Reporting Options in the Production Wizard. It may be worth asking Techsmith to put in a "View Cumulative Quiz Results..." feature into the next version of Camtasia.

[@jennisbell72]

@@MacVideoMagic Do you have more information on the Quiz Reporting Service? I'm not seeing much. . .

[@izzerstennisscorekeeper3971]

Michael, is this still the best quiz maker? I would like to present the material in vids and pix, then quiz. The suggestion if they get the answer wrong is great. And I want them to work on all platforms.

[@MacVideoMagic]

I'm in the process of looking at Camtasia's latest update, 2021. I know when I did this video a few years ago there were issues with playing the quiz on the iPhone. Don't know if that's been fixed.

[@izzerstennisscorekeeper3971]

@@MacVideoMagic Thanks Michael. I have been looking at others'. They seem to focus on the making of the powerpoint or video. I already have my animations and powerpoints and quizzes... now I want them hyperlinked, to give feedback, and I want them to work on any platform.

[@FinancingLife]

Thank you Michael. That was TERRIFIC. I used to do something like that with KZbin but they discontinued that feature and it was never available on smartphone devices. Can you tell be about this: how well does this work on smartphone and small touch displays? I'd love your advice because, like you, I think interactivity is powerful.

[@MacVideoMagic]

Thanks for your comment! I was actually about to investigate how Camtasia's interactivity operates on mobile. Here's a link to a page on the Techsmith site outlining the requirements for using Camtasia's interactive features, including on an iPhone. Hope this helps: support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/227104508-The-TechSmith-SmartPlayer

[@FinancingLife]

Ah thanks. It says that these mobile devices will require a free app in order to become interactive. Darn, that's a barrier I'm not willing to accept at this point. However, you are working on a few ideas and perhaps you'll inspire me!

[@MacVideoMagic]

Yeah, not a fan of having to download an additional app to use interactivity on iOS. I guess that's how you keep the experience consistent for all users.

[@cooperstudiosprocom]

Love the video. I have set up a new concept of interactive musical theatre where the audience can bring their smart devices into the show and answer multiple questions about the show and win tickets for the next musical. I am wondering if this quiz can be placed onto my website and if people that want to participate must give their e-mails . One it is to build up a data base and in order to inform them when the next production is to occur and to inform those people who won tickets..

[@MacVideoMagic]

Sounds interesting. Email me for more info.

[@GrantSR]

In the end, Camtasia just produces what would be treated just like any other page on your website (although way more complicated of a page than just a plain HTML file). So, any web site design that controls who can go to what pages (for instance with a login) can then control who can view each of your learning videos. But that's all I know so far. I do not know which software you can install on a web server to do this kind of thing. Personally, I am looking into Drupal, but I don' t know enough about it yet.

[@GrantSR]

In case anyone is interested, I have already researched using Udemy to host these kinds of interactive lessons. But that is a total no-go. Udemy only allows plain videos to be hosted. You can put a quiz at the end of each lecture but all it can do is just tell the student if they were correct. I asked, and you cannot even have answers link people to different videos, explaining why they were right or wrong. You can only have one link for the entire question that leads to a video about what this question covers. So, you couldn't even build an interactive lesson in Camtasia and then break that up into segments to replicate the same functionality in Udemy.

[@MacVideoMagic]

None of the video/course hosting sites natively support the additional code required to make Camtasia interactive lessons work, except for Thinkific. They support interactive content (Camtasia, Captivate, Storyline) on their paid Business plan. Another option is to host the Camtasia files on a server (Amazon S3, pCloud) and then embed the interactive lesson in your Udemy course using an . Not sure if Udemy allows embeds. I believe Teachable and Thinkific do.

[@amlaaaa479]

Can you make the video stop so students answer the question and it only continues once they have answered it?

[@scottashby6745]

How exactly do you get back to the quiz after you have been branched off to a remedial clip? Am I missing something here? This is no little matter. This is a deal-breaker TechSmith. I assume my learners have to wade back through the entire video until they get back to the quiz that sent them on this journey. Only to be sent off again should they miss the next question too. Talk about CBT jail!!! Does anybody have a solution here? I'm all ears.

[@neshiabe7081]

i like your voice♥

[@manavlahari4472]

osm

[@Mahmoud_Saad]

So boring, So slow, Sorry :/

[@bertwesler1181]

The platform sucks~!

[@kienthucc2636]

No example. Bad content

[@MacVideoMagic]

😕