As well as providing a simple and effective route into publishing an ebook, iBooks Author has a number of tricks up its sleeve to make your titles truly stand out. One such trick is its Review widget, available from the Widgets menu. This offers publishers the chance to include tests within the pages of their book to help readers learn or recap topics covered. While these tests are mainly useful for textbooks and other educational materials, the question styles provide a number of possibilities, and are easy to implement.
In this tutorial we’re going to show you how to add a Review widget to your iBooks Author project. We’ll then show you how to add questions, set the answers to those questions and then preview them on your iPad. There are a number of question styles available in iBooks Author, such as standard multiple choice text questions, visual multiple-choice questions and image-based questions where answers can be dragged to specific points in a picture. This provides flexibility in the type of tests you can create, since you can use any image as part of your questions. You’re also free to include up to six possible answers for each question to make things as difficult as you wish.
When readers view your test, it can be opened in a full-screen view or simply used as it is on the page. Answers can then be checked for each question or provided as a score at the end of the test. This can be handy to help readers retain information and check that they have understood concepts from the previous chapter or your whole book.
To follow this guide, simply add a new page to an existing iBooks Author project or start a new project and test out the Review widget that way. Let’s get started.
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ericrovve
March 22, 2012 at 11:03am
A great app -- and you can even add video to your book, which I've done. But can't publish, that's the only snag! I have to get a US tax form by telephone (EIN). After an hour I've forever learned all their phone music.
