Creating Interactive PowerPoints

Start by creating a new PowerPoint Presentation.

It is recommended that you choose one of PowerPoint's preset themes.

Be sure to save the file under a recognisable name.

Create the Introduction Page, where the quiz is explained.

Create a new slide from one of the preset layouts.

If you choose a simple "Title with Content" The short-cut is [cmd] + [shift] + [N]

Open the Slide Master

Go to View > Master > Slide Master

Short-cut: [cmd] + [alt] + [1]

Add your Signature and the date into the footer of the main Master Slide

The master slide of themed layouts generally come with a footer

Add any other small styling to the theme of the Master slides

Rename the new slide layout to represent the Quiz slide layouts you will be making

Right click the Slide Layout

Go to Rename Layout…

Style the Quiz Slides

Add a character to the quiz to appeal to a younger audience

Adding Speech bubbles are best added behind the placeholders

The only thing you can change outside of the slide master are placeholders

Add boxes so that you know where to place your Option Buttons

Holding [alt] and dragging a box copies that box

The boxes will not be seen later and will be covered by a big hyperlinked button

Create more layouts for showing answers to the questions

So, one for a correct and one for a wrong answers

Add boxes to position buttons to guide the user to the next question or the previous question

Close the master view by returning to the normal view

The short-cut is [cmd] + [1]

Make new section and call it question 1

Create a set of question and response slides

This involves one question slide, followed by a correct answer slide and a wrong answer slide

Put them under your new section

Repeat the last step to create several more questions in the quiz

You can also just duplicate your slides, but make sure you make new sections each time to keep things organised

Create buttons for each of the slides

Just close the dialog that opens up when you create the button, we'll return to it later

Use a normal button for the multiple choice buttons and use arrow buttons for those in the response slides

Make sure the buttons stay consistent for all the slides

It is useful to fill the empty buttons with place holding text to inform you where it should link to

Hyperlink the buttons to their corresponding slides

Reopen the Dialog box by right-clicking the box and going to Action Settings

Under the "Hyperlink to" Drop down menu, select the desired slide

The backwards arrow is useful to put as last slide viewed.

For the multiple choice buttons, you can add sound effects by ticking "Play sound" and choosing the sound

Add animations and transitions to the Quiz to make it more exciting and engaging for the audience.

For the Slides with buttons to click, turn off the Advance Slide On Mouse Click

This will prevent the user for accidentally going to the next slide by clicking on the screen. This would mess the branching of your presentation up

Finalise your Project by filling in the questions, and answers.

Be sure to include an ending slide to conclude your quiz