Creating a quiz with hyperlink answers

This type of quiz can be used as a tutorial to develop high order thinking skills

1. Question

a. Answer

b. Answer

c. Answer

d. Answer

We are going to write a sample

test question that contains a

question with a number bullet and

4 answers with letter bullets

• Start a blank slide

• Click the text box icon and draw a text box

• Type the word Question

• Click the Number Bullet Icon

• Your slide should look like the entry below

1. Question

1. Question

1. answer

• Press Enter

• Type the word, answer

• Press the Demote Icon

We will now change 1. answer to a. answer

1. Question

1. answer

• Right click the word “answer” and select Bullets and Numbers from the pop up menu

1. Question

a. answer

• Select the a. b. c. box then OK

• Place the cursor at the end of “answer” and press return

1. Question

a. Answer

b. Answer

c. Answer

d. Answer

• Continue pressing return and typing the word “Answer” until you have a template like the one on the left.

• Next, click the slide sorter button.

• From the Slide Sorter view, click the first slide and press CTRL C

• Next press CTRL V 3 times to make 3 more slides

1. What is your teachers name?

a. Joe

b. Ralph

c. Frank

d. Rubin

• Change the text in one of your question slides to make a valid test question.

1. What is your teachers name?

a. Joe

b. Ralph

c. Frank

d. Rubin

• We are now going to create a separate slide for each of the answers, a, b, c, d

• Next we will link the answers to each answer slide.

• When the student clicks on the answer it will take them to that slide

Sorry, Joe is the name of the principal.

• Lets start with the Joe slide

• Create a blank slide

• Enter text to let the student know that Joe is the wrong answer. (Sorry, Joe is …..)

• Now we will enter an Action Button to take the student back to the question slide

Sorry, Joe is the name of the principal.

• Click Autoshapes

• Click one of the action buttons

• Draw the action button

• Click the drop-down button

• Select Slide …

• Click the number of the Question slide. (Our Question is on slide 8)

• Click OK

Sorry, Joe is the name of the principal.

Click to return to question

• Now when the student clicks the action button it will return to the question slide

• Type text to explain the button

• Our next task is to “Hide” the Answer slide so it doesn’t come up during the presentation.

To hide a slide so it does not show during your show:

• Make sure the slide you want to hide is active

• From the Slide Show Menu, select Hide Slide

• Repeat this process for each of the answer slides

1. What is your teachers name?

a. Joe

b. Ralph

c. Frank

d. Rubin

Linking the answers to the answer slides

• Highlight “Joe”

• Click the Link Icon

• Select the answer slide for a. Joe

• Repeat this process for each of the other answers

Assignment

Use the skills you have just learned to create a quiz slide show, or

Use the skills you have just learned to create a lesson that teaches something.

Make sure you use each of the skills we have learned in this lesson