Integrating Technology in the Foreign Language
Classroom
Jean LeLoup & Bob Ponterio
SUNY Cortland
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PowerPoint Multiple Feedback Slides (PPT 2007)
We have already seen how to set up a PowerPoint quiz using a single pair of slides to provide general right answer and wrong answer feedback for any question in the quiz. You may wish to give answer specific feedback for each of the student's responses. To do this, we need to set up a separate feedback slide for each possible answer.
The setup
Here below we see a group of slides.
The first slide is an introduction. There are two questions (slides #2 & #7) offering 4 possible answers. When the student clicks on an answer, we want to jump to the
slide that provides the appropriate feedback for that particular response. Great job! or No. From the
negative feedback slides, we want to return to the question slide, but from the Great job! slide, we can go on to the next question. Of
course, we never want to accidentally fall through to a feedback slide
inappropriately as this would certainly confuse the student. Instead,
we want to skip over those feedback slides to whatever comes next.
To accomplish this, we will turn off the default PowerPoint feature that moves to the next slide whenever the mouse is clicked. Instead, we will create Action Buttons that explicitly jump to our desired location.
Here is how we prevent accidentally falling through to another slide. We will use only Action Buttons to move from one slide to another. To turn off the default behavior of PowerPoint, we go to the the Animations ribbon. Under Advance Slide, turn off On Mouse Click by unchecking this option. Then click on Apply To All so the transition will be applied to all slides in the presentation. Now we need to use Action Buttons for all slide transitions. With this method, we do not need to hide any slides because nothing will happen automatically. However, we do need to be sure to place appropriate Action Buttons on each slide to control the program flow.
| On the question slides, we can use Action Buttons covering the answers to jump to the appropriate feedback slide. We also need to adjust the transparency of these Action Buttons (right-click / Format Shape / Transparency). |
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From the wrong answer feedback slides, we make buttons that jump back to the Last Slide Viewed. We place the correct answer feedback after all the wrong answer feedbacks, so we can use a button that goes to the next slide, the next question.
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