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Re: PowerPoint: Interactive Infographic Template

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TomPigram
Community Member
7 years ago
Hi Allison, I know that my question is vastly off-topic (but for some reason I cannot open a Discussion Topic - though I have tried for days :(). As I know you are a frequent contributor - I would like to ask your kind help with QUIZZES in POWERPOINT. I am writing elearning courses to help less-advantaged peoples in South East Asia - and while I am very good at PowerPoint - it seems I am incapable of writing Quizzes which has either a redo or move on button + a Total corrrect answers and test pass + download Certificate section. I am expecially astounded because I thought until now that powerpoint was very good - but alas its not, it seems in teaching me how to create all these features for an elearning course.

I am at my wits end - and cannot find samples of other peoples success in creating quizzes in powerpoint (with all these features) which I can use to work all this out.

Perhaps the only alternative I have is to learn a new software like storyline/articulate - but all this does is add to my costs.

I would be grateful for any guidance form you or other visitors.

Thanks for your patience in listening to my story.

Best regards, Tom
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  • AllisonLaMotte's avatar
    AllisonLaMotte
    Staff
    7 years ago
    Hi Tom,
    I'm sorry you've been having such a hard time creating a new discussion! That sounds frustrating. If that issue continues, I would suggest logging a case with our Support Team: https://articulate.com/support/contact/case

    The only way I know to create quizzes in PowerPoint is by using Articulate Quizmaker. If you'd like, you can try it for free by starting a free trial of Articulate 360: articulate.com/360/trial

    I understand that subscribing to our software would be an added cost for you, but it would likely save you a lot of time!

    In the meantime, if there's anything else I can do to help, please let me know!
    • TomPigram's avatar
      TomPigram
      Community Member
      7 years ago
      Thanks Allison. I have bought a copy of Quizmaker to have a play around :) In the meantime, my business partner is using the authoring tools supplied by an LMS that we are trialling to see what he can do. Building your own business outside the mainstream of a large company can be quite costly and daunting - and as we are doing this job to be nice people, it just makes the whole process a lot more costly. So we wont be fast to getting our courses up now - but eventually we will :)

      Thanks for your input - I think even whan i wrote my request - I was already fairly convinced that I had no option than to spend more.

      Do you happen to know if there are any Quizmaker templates uploaded at this site that you would recommend I can try? just in order to make my learning phase a bit faster>

      Thanks again so much ::)
  • PeteBrown1's avatar
    PeteBrown1
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Hi Tom

    I think that if PowerPoint did the things you've specified easily there'd be no need for specialist quiz products like QuizMaker!

    That said, most, if not all, of what you've described could probably be done in PowerPoint using VBA macro functions. For example, in broad terms you could:
    1. Specify a global variable, e.g. TotScore
    2. Increment TotScore by 1 whenever someone clicked specific buttons (i.e. the correct answers) on any slide in the presentation
    3. If TotScore was greater than your desired passing score you could set another variable PassStatus to 'Passed' otherwise set PassStatus to 'Not Passed' and display that on a certificate slide.

    This wouldn't be foolproof. Anyone who knew their way around PowerPoint could probably reverse-engineer the correct answers by poking around the backend of PowerPoint.

    Anyhoo, just my two cents' worth based on what you asked. Someone else may have a better idea.

    Good Luck!
    • TomPigram's avatar
      TomPigram
      Community Member
      7 years ago
      Thanks Pete Brown - its a reasonable option to continue to play with pptx...but like you said, Quizmaker was made to fill a gap :) So this exercise has cost more than I budgeted - but this is how projects go sometimes - even if you are doing the work for noble reasons :)

      All the best
      • stewartmilton's avatar
        stewartmilton
        Community Member
        7 years ago
        Tom, i hope you don't me jumping in. PPT was never really designed for quizzing as such and Pete's advice is bang on. There are 2 aspects to think about - quizzing and the results/analysis. At the moment I am creating courses for approx 1700 learners, the questions have been created in Storyline 3 and the courses containing these have been uploaded to our LMS (BlackBoard) as Scorm files. When learners complete these courses and quiz questions the results are recorded in grade centre.

        Now dependng on these results I have set up conditions on our LMS and if a user meets them i.e. more than 50% then BlackBoard provides a completion certificate for the user. If you have smaller numbers of learners then you may be able to provide the lessons without an LMS but for larger scale courses an LMS is essential to manage the users, record scores, produce reports/certs and to meet audit/compliance regulations from your organisation or other parties.