Powerpoint Quiz.

The next topic on the Moodle site is Student-Centred technologies, and the first technology covered was PowerPoint Quizzes. PowerPoint Quizzes allow students to “design and develop rudimentary Quizzes using the hyper-linking capability” of the program of PowerPoint (Central Queensland University, 2009). Whilst engaging with the courseware I decided that I would edit the quick quiz that Debbie Wehmeier, Sheila Challacombe and I developed as part of our Ensuring Student Success PowerPoint presentation on the Year Two Diagnostic Net. Prior to knowing that buttons could be added to PowerPoint presentations to create quizzes, we just had the quiz questions displayed separately throughout the slides of the presentation. Therefore, I added buttons to the bottom of each slide so that the slides were hyperlinked and switch between each other. I was unable to add buttons for the answers of the quiz questions as the quiz was not being taken in a multiple choice manner. However, whilst adding the buttons to the bottom of the slide I did fiddle around and add answers with buttons just so that I could see whether or not I could figure that process out, and I am happy to say I was successful.

If you would like to see how the quiz has been edited by using buttons throughout the slideshow, you can do so by following the link below to my MediaFire account.

Year Two Diagnostic Net Quiz-
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=bdd4851035de116ad1014a7a667fa2b4adc057435123f8e25621d66e282a0ee8

Personally, I found the opportunity to make richer quizzes in PowerPoint engaging, and feel that they definitely improve the quality of a presentation, along with, test for audiences understanding of the information that has been delivered. However, within a classroom setting I feel that the quizzes which can be made on ClassMarker would be more beneficial for learning managers when students are completing summative assessment, in comparison to PowerPoint Quizzes, as ClassMarker saves a learning manager time by immediately marking the quiz for you. Therefore, I think that PowerPoint quizzes would be useful when students are required to involve their audience when giving their peers a presentation on a topic that they have researched.

Reference List:
Central Queensland University (CQU). (2009). FAHE11001- Managing E-Learning: Moodle site. Rockhampton, QLD, Australia: Scot Aldred.