Over the last half-term I’ve observed some good practice using PowerPoint to create simple quiz activities, utilised as either a starter or consolidation exercise.

For my last Geography lesson, before the first exam, I produced the Mega Quiz below, based on our Paper.1. It looks massive, but it was simply a case of duplicating a set of ten slides at a time. I set up the quiz to progress every twenty seconds, so that I only had to manage the class. As the students completed the quiz, I played an album in the background…

On my first attempt with one class, I went through the answers by forwarding the slides by hand. On reflection, I decided I could time the whole presentation, so they could self-mark as well. As a result, I applied a transition of twenty seconds to all slides for my following class, though I now feel the transitions for answers could have been ten seconds to speed the process.

At the end of the quiz, I then reviewed the question numbers that students got wrong.

You can download this PowerPoint at slideshare, if you wish to adapt the template.

Any other ideas for quirky PowerPoint quizzes?

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Written on Wed, 23 May 2007 at 6:42 pm

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