Skip audio on quiz slide

Hello Captivate Community,
I'm a long time lurker / dabbler finally putting Captivate to use in some "real" projects.
I'm working with a quiz slide and I'm wondering if there is any way to control audio. I'd like the learner to be able to skip audio so I figured I could add a button to hide the audio object but I see that there is no way to add a button to a quiz slide.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Rick

Hello Lilybiri,
Thanks for your response. I'm against using the mute button as this is a global setting and would force the learner to unmute for other slides. And I don't think your other suggestion will work for my course flow. My scenario will work like this: Learner arrives at quiz slide and audio plays narrating question and answers. If the learner answers incorrectly they are forwarded to a video remediation. After remediation the learner is returned to the quiz slide to try again. At this point audio plays again and I would like to give the learner an option to skip audio, but I see I am probably out of luck.

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I have disabled the next/skip button in quiz and don't remember how I did it. I need to reenable it. Oh yea Captivate 7.

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Not sure what you mean. The master question slide looks normal and the project question slide does as well. When I launch the project the Next/skip button is grayed out and I cannot click on it. In the properties it looks the same as the other buttons.

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I have a project I have asked questions about in a previous discussion but as this is a new difficulty so I have started a new discussion.
The project in made up of only quiz slides and on each quiz slide there are:
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You didn't watch the other video? It was about playing audio as well...Have also a long blog post about possible scenarios to play/pause audio. It is different, because it is about a real pause, not about replaying an audio clip as in your example:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/toggle-shape-buttons
Question slides are a different beast, you have always to be very careful there. I blogged about buttons on question slides:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/want-a-button-on-question-slide-in-captivate
The question slide objects have highest priority. I should explore this more in depth, but my intuition tells me that perhaps clicking on your shape button triggers the action that is performed as second step on the Question slide (press Y or click on the slide). Does it happen before of after the user clicks the Submit button?
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