Need Help With Branching

Feb 27, 2012

I need help with branching. I created a slide where the user inputs certain options. by selecting different options. I want the user then to go back to this slide later on and results to show up based on their choices. So, if they chose the wrong option, when they go back, there is an 'X' through it. 

Can I trigger animations in power point to appear when viewing a slide for the second time only, and the first time they are viewing a slide?

Or, is there is a way to save the "data" on what options they chose and be able to pull that data back out when I need it?

I feel that I am reaching the limits of my power point and articulate prowess. 

3 Replies
Jeanette Brooks

Hello Kai! By using hyperlinked choices on a slide, you could certainly take the learner to a feedback slide, based on what they click... you could make the feedback slide look similar to the original, except with an X over the wrong choice). The challenge, though, is that this really only works if you take the learner to the feedback slide directly from the choice slide, like the flow shown below.

Unfortunately, it's not really possible to "remember" what the learner chose and then take them back to the appropriate feesdback slide from a later point in the course. That sort of logic doesn't really exist in PowerPoint/Presenter.

Do you have Quizmaker? Depending on the kind of content you're building, maybe you could author the content in Quizmaker, which allows you to show a result slide based on the learner's response(s).

Kai Gillespie

Thanks Jeanette. I tried using Quizmaker, but you can only have one question per slide, which doesnt match my needs. I want to recreate the attached form into a interactive lesson about the process of hiring independent contractors.

I essentially want the learner to fill out the form, hand it in, and then get the form back with the feedback based on their answers. My original idea was to go back to the slide where they originally filled out the form and have feedback on which questions they got wrong and why. I had an eureka moment thinking this storyline through and it bums me out that I can't figure out how to create it.  

Jeanette Brooks said:

Hello Kai! By using hyperlinked choices on a slide, you could certainly take the learner to a feedback slide, based on what they click... you could make the feedback slide look similar to the original, except with an X over the wrong choice). The challenge, though, is that this really only works if you take the learner to the feedback slide directly from the choice slide, like the flow shown below.

Unfortunately, it's not really possible to "remember" what the learner chose and then take them back to the appropriate feesdback slide from a later point in the course. That sort of logic doesn't really exist in PowerPoint/Presenter.

Do you have Quizmaker? Depending on the kind of content you're building, maybe you could author the content in Quizmaker, which allows you to show a result slide based on the learner's response(s).

Jeanette Brooks

I see what you mean, Kai -  thanks for sharing that PDF. And you're right, there's not currently a way to do exactly what you have in mind. (It seems, though, that even if it were possible, another challenge would be the issue of squeezing all 15 questions onto a single slide, plus the question-specific feedback for each one, while still making all the text large enough to read easily.)

One alternative might be to spread the questions across a few multiple-response questions in Quizmaker, sort of like the example shown in this screencast. You could cover 15 questions with 3 slides that way, and then provide a quiz review button on the result slide that allows learners to go back and review their graded quiz. Although there's not a way to display the question-specific feedback during the quiz review, you could perhaps follow up with a remedial key that provides supporting information about the correct answer for each question. Maybe use a Labeled Graphic to show an image of the worksheet, with a marker denoting each correct answer, which the user could click to learn more about why that answer is correct.

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