How To Make A Quiz In Powerpoint 365 For Mac

In this tutorial, we will show you how you can install the Multiple Choice Quiz in PowerPoint and then how you can create your own quiz. Download the Multiple Choice Quiz Add-in Microsoft offers many different add-ins for the Office suite of applications to make work more dynamic, productive, and streamlined.

When I conducted the quiz contest, many readers wanted to know the details of how exactly it was done. So here are the details.

Practical steps with additional guidance. What is needed?

You need PowerPoint 2013. You also need to and install it. Read the earlier articles about Office Mix to get a quick introduction. Creating the Multiple Choice Test First of all finalize your template, slide design and so on. Make the title slide and add an explanatory slide with instructions about the responding to the test.

Create questions and answers – one question per slide. Publish it for personal viewing first, test it out and then publish it to the target audience. When they respond to the test, you can analyze the results. Survey This can be used for a simple multiple choice survey as well. Create the content for the questions I suggest that you first write down the questions and answers in Word – each on a separate paragraph.

Do NOT use any formatting. Just type it in Word and save it. Create one slide for each question Add a new slide and choose Quizzes Videos Apps from the Mix tab. This opens the Office App Store.

Do not get confused. Just choose Multiple Choice option. In the next screen, choose Trust It. You have to do this for EVERY question. This is due to the way it is implemented. Sounds cumbersome but never mind that right now.

Just get on with it and add questions. Now the MCQ is added as a sort of textbox with content on the current slide.

In this case the title “Write related things here” is NOT the part of the quiz. The bounded box below is the Question and Answer area.

Rest of the slide is still available to you. You can add diagrams, pictures, related text, tables, shapes, or anything else which is required to explain the question.

The question and answers are shown in light / dark gray color. You cannot change those colors. Now type the Question and Answers. Mark the correct answer and click Preview to see how it looks. There is a problem while typing.

The textboxes given here somehow slow down the typing speed. So if you type fast, you will miss characters and end up spending too much time in correcting mistakes. Therefore, I prefer to type the questions and answers in Word and just copy paste them into this Q&A panel. Add a hint if required If you want, click on the bulb and give them a Hint. For formal tests, hints are not used. For informal tests, hints may be necessary to make it more interesting and less strict.

Feedback: Explain why the answer was right or wrong Each answer can have an explanation or Feedback. Click on the speech bubble icon to add the feedback text.

This is shown when that answer is chosen and submitted. Single or multiple answers This can make the question more confusing to answer in a test scenario. But it is a good option for a survey scenario. Shuffling answers This is a good idea to prevent the participants from blindly sharing the right answers with each other. This option randomly reorders answers every time the question is shown. How many attempts you want to allow?

If the examination is strict, you should allow only 1 attempt. Because the right answer is shown immediately, there is no point in allowing multiple attempts. Even if you allow multiple attempts, the analysis shows how many attempts were required for each question.

This way you can still judge the performance without any compromise – giving higher weightage to lower number of attempts. Preview the results One important thing while previewing is to avoid vertical scrolling. As far as possible restrict the choices so that scrolling is not required. If you genuinely need more choices then you have no option. But in general, providing too many choices is also a counterproductive practice. Add supporting slides Ideally, first slide should be title, second should be instructional slide. Followed by quiz slides and ending with instructions about how the evaluation is going to be done and communicated.