1. Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA
Pam Miller

2. Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA
Security
The security must be set to Medium for the macros to work.
Check Tools, Macro, Security.
You should set it to Medium, then Save, Close, Open, Enable macros and then View.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

3. Opening a PowerPoint quiz made with VBA
You must enable the macro for the quiz to work.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

4. Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA
Now …
Look at a PowerPoint quiz made with VBA
Save the ‘perfect quiz’ in read-only safe place
Consider and change the testing file
Play and adapt
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

5. Protecting the coding

6. Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA
Save as PPS
If you save your work as a PowerPoint Show or PPS no one can get into the VBA coding and change it.
File, Save as
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

7. To an object To part of an object
Attaching a macro …
To an object
To part of an object

8. Attaching a macro to an object
Right click on the object. Select Action Settings, Mouse Click, Run macro, select macro.
It must be an object and not text, i.e. it must be a text box/object.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

9. Attaching a macro to part of an object
To attach a macro to part of an object, add a small object to the small area. Do it in colour, position it, add the macro and then adjust the settings removing the fill and the border.
You could first attach a macro to the large ‘wrong’ area and then another macro for the small ‘correct’ area.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

10. VB Editor
Getting VB Editor

11. Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA
Getting VB editor
Click on View, Toolbars, Visual Basic.
You need the Visual Basic Editor.
Click on the Visual Basic Editor
Now click on VBAProject, and then on Modules and then on Module 1 and the editing box appears.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

12. Getting VB editor another way
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

13. Macro name Message Input box prompt Title for input box
Changing …
Macro name
Message
Input box prompt
Title for input box

14. Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA
Changing macro name
You can change the macro name.
It must be one word with no spaces.
The name will change in the Run macro box.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

15. Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA
Changing the message
You can change the message.
Type it inside the quotation marks.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

16. Changing input box prompt
You can change the prompt.
Type it inside the quotation marks.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

17. Changing title for input box
You can change the title of the input box.
Type it inside the quotation marks.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

18. Calculations
Done for you

19. Doing calculations – they have been done for you
Look at how the calculations are added and subtracted. They are based on the number of positive and negative responses.
If you do not want the quiz results do not attach the macro ‘Feedback’.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

20. Selecting the correct answer On click Not moving forward

21. Moving forward on instruction from macro
Look at the coding where you indicate viewing the Next slide.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

22. Moving forward using action buttons
Using an action button allows you to specify which slide you wish to link to.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

23. No moving forward at all
To prevent any meaningless moving forward using a mouse or clicking, select Slide Show, Set Up Show, Browsed at kiosk.
But if you do this no animation which needs a click will work, so if you have animations make them automatic.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

24. Displaying message

25. Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA
Displaying a message
An easy effective macro is to show a message. Copy the coding.
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

26. Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA
Displaying a message
Be creative
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA

27. Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA
Be creative
Be creative
Be creative
Adapting a ready made PowerPoint quiz with VBA