ppt quiz - recognising/scoring an ordered sequence

[mathslogic]

Have found some really useful guidance here. Wonder if anyone knows how I can
score an answer to a "multiple choice" question, where the responses are
ordered into a predetermined sequence. I have been using the VBA for moving
responses to put them into correct order, (similar to checkers game) but
would like to give student feedback prior to them advancing slide.
Is this too fancy? Should I be thinking of buying one of these quizmakers?

 

[David Marcovitz]

Have found some really useful guidance here. Wonder if anyone knows how I can
score an answer to a "multiple choice" question, where the responses are
ordered into a predetermined sequence. I have been using the VBA for moving
responses to put them into correct order, (similar to checkers game) but
would like to give student feedback prior to them advancing slide.
Is this too fancy? Should I be thinking of buying one of these quizmakers?

I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do. Are you saying that you are
using VBA to move objects around, but you want to be able to judge that you
have moved them to the right order? You should be able to do this. Do you
have your code for moving responses (or an example PowerPoint you can post
to a Web site)? We then might be able to look to see where some scoring code
could be added.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[mathslogic]

I was playing with vba off your site David, where the checkers move around
the grid; and realised that would be great to apply say to 5 statements which
my pupils have to put in the correct order so used your "movehim" and
"moveto" scripts originally to just play about with the statements, but
realise that pupils will want feedback that they are correct. So the 5
statements are in text boxes which are moved by a click to another place to
sequence correctly. Currently very basic (but nonetheless powerful) stuff!
Thanks

 

[David Marcovitz]

I think what you want to do is similar to what Preschool Mike was asking
about recently. You can see some of the solutions suggested by searching for
the threads about his problem (which he solved):

http://tinyurl.com/mmsza

The scorekeeping certainly adds a lot of complexity over the simple bit of
code at Example 5 under More Tricks on my site (
http://www.loyola.edu/edudept/PowerfulPowerPoint/MoreTricks.html). However,
it is very doable. In Preschool Mike's question, we decided that the best
idea would be to having the scoring happen at the end so we checked whether
the movable things were in the right place at the very end. If you want to
track the score as you go, that is doable but a little different.

--David

I was playing with vba off your site David, where the checkers move around
the grid; and realised that would be great to apply say to 5 statements which
my pupils have to put in the correct order so used your "movehim" and
"moveto" scripts originally to just play about with the statements, but
realise that pupils will want feedback that they are correct. So the 5
statements are in text boxes which are moved by a click to another place to
sequence correctly. Currently very basic (but nonetheless powerful) stuff!
Thanks

--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[mathslogic]

Thanks for the directions - am figuring out how Preschool Mike managed - it
looks very similar to my request.
Have got the book btw - and am applying some of the coding to my ppts.
Many thanks again

 

[David Marcovitz]

Great. It took us a few rounds of questions and answers to get to what
Preschool Mike wanted to do so feel free to ask us a few rounds of questions
and answers as well.
--David

Thanks for the directions - am figuring out how Preschool Mike managed - it
looks very similar to my request.
Have got the book btw - and am applying some of the coding to my ppts.
Many thanks again

--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland