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Creating Question and Answer Events

4/3/2016

You can use RightBooth to create question and answer events. This allows you to present your users with a set of questions that your users answer during the event. Your event file can contain as many questions as you like and you can choose to make users answer all the questions or let them decide for themselves which they would prefer to answer.

Each question can be presented to the user in one of the following ways:

play the user a video
show the user a text question
play both a video and show a text question
present the user with a multiple choice question

Answers can be obtained from the user in one of the following ways:

they record a video answer
they type a text answer
they choose to record a video answer or type a text answer
they select an answer from a set of multiple choices

This article describes how to set up a simple question and answer event containing two questions.

Step 1 - Create a Question Event File

On the RightBooth main screen, click New to start a new event
Click Save as and save this event file as QnA
Go to the Event Designer and click on the Event Type tab.
In the Recording types panel, tick: Questions and un-tick: Video and Photo. This sets our event to be a Question and Answer event...

Step 2 - Create your Questions

In the Event Designer, select the Event questions tab. This panel contains a Question and Answer table, which will be initially empty
Click the Add button to add your first question
For our first question, we will ask the user a text question and also play an accompanying video, so click on the Question type cell and choose Both (meaning video and text)
Click in the Question text cell and enter the question text for Question 1
Click in the Question video cell to browse for the video file on your computer that you want to play for Question 1
We want our users to answer this question by recording a video, so click in the Answer type cell and select Video
We also want to make this question optional, allowing users to choose whether to answer this question, so tick the Skip check box.
As this is not a multi choice question you can leave the Multi Answers and Multi Branch cells empty.
The Branch cell can also remain unchanged at Next

Here we see the completed Question 1 in the Question and Answer grid:

Next we add Question 2. Question 2 will be a text question, requiring the user to type a text answer and we want to force the user to answer the question, so no Skip this time. Here is the completed Question and Answer grid containing our two questions:

Step 3 - Designing the Question Screens

Go to the Screen Editor.
On the Toolbox, click on the Question screen in the Screen list.
Notice that the Question selector appears on the toolbox (see opposite). You can use this to access each of the two questions for design purposes.

Now use the Screen editor to layout each of your question screens.
Each question screen can have its own design and layout.

Below you can see how we've laid out the two question screens so that text and video are separated. Also notice that the Skip button is only available on Question 1...

Step 3 - Designing the Answer Screens

On the Toolbox, click on the Answer screen in the screen list.
Notice that on the toolbox there is now an Answer selector to access each of the two answers for design purposes.

Now use the Screen Editor to design each of your answer screens. As with the question screens, each of your answer screens can have its own design and layout.

Below you can see how we've laid out the two answer screens, making sure that the answer text is not obscured by either the video window or the on-screen keyboard:

One thing to point out: you can alter any question text, answer text or referenced video files directly on the screens in the Screen Designer if you wish, and your changes will be added to the Question and Answer grid.

That's it!
Save the file and you're now ready to run the event and get your users recording video and text answers to your questions.

I now hear you asking, what about the Multiple choice questions and the Multi Answers, Multi Branch and Branch items in the Question Grid?
OK. We'll cover multi choice questions in another article soon.

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Where to find your Event Recordings

1/3/2016

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We've been asked on a number of occasions where (on your computer) you can find the event videos, photos and text messages that are recorded during an event.
By default, each event you create with RightBooth will store its files in a separate sub folder within the Documents folder on your computer:

My Documents\RightBooth6\Events (for RightBooth version 6)

My Documents\RightBooth5\Events (for RightBooth version 5)

You can use Windows Explorer to browse to this folder, but perhaps the easiest way to open and view this folder is to use RightBooth as follows:

Run RightBooth
Open the event for which you would like to view files
Go to the RightBooth Settings
Click on the Folders tab to show the Folders settings (see image below)
Click on the View Folder button to open and view the event files on your computer

Notice in the Folder for saving files box in the screen shot below that the sub folder name is event1, which is also the name of the event file that is currently open in RightBooth.

Because the check box Add event name as sub folder is ticked, RightBooth will automatically add a new sub folder with the same name as each new event file you create.

RightBooth will also show you how many videos, photos and message files are stored in the event folder, in the example below you can see that 41 videos have been recorded

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Creating Question and Answer Events

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