Powerpoint Teaching Game - Advice Needed

[garyclay]

Hi,

I'm making a game for use with young children for use in classrooms. I am
restricted to using Powerpoint.

I need to be able to show the children an item and tell them the price and
they then have to click on the correct coins needed to pay.

Is there a way I can do this without simply having 4 options showing
different coins so that a child can actually choose each coin individually?

I am unsure how I could have the programme work such that child A might
choose the 10 pence coin first but child b might choose 50 pence coin first
etc etc and there is no way I can make a slide for each possible outcome!

Any ideas

 

[John Wilson]

You need to use triggers on the "correct" coins each of which causes a
covering shape to exit over the "reward" which could be a further action
button to trigger a response. The "reward" will only be active when all the
coins are clicked and all of the "covers" are removed.

See this demo
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/conditional_triggers.html
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[PPTMagician]

In addition to John's excellent suggestion for triggers, you might want to
consider the Drag and Drop Macro to "drag and drop" the coins into designated
space. It does have some issues because its a macro, but once moved the
coins stay where they're dropped.

http://davefoord.uniblogs.org/2007/04/16/drag-and-drop-exercises-in-powerpoint/

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Thanks,
Glenna Shaw
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
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