Powerful PowerPoint for Educators: Using Visual Basic for Applications to Make PowerPoint Interactive

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Another possibility is to in dicate that a menu item has been visited by putting
a sym bol next to it, such as a check mark or a smiley face. You might cre ate a tu to-
rial and quiz like the one shown in Figure 7.5 (page 110). This simple tu torial has
three parts: The Ex 
ecutive Branch, The Leg 
islative Branch, and The Judicial
Branch. Students may choose these parts of the tutorial in any or der. Smiling
sunshines next to the but tons in dicate those sections of the tu torial that have already
Learn First, Ask Ques tions Later: The Tu torial and Quiz 109

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been completed. The smiling sunshines (or whatever sym bols or pictures you like)
can be created with any tra ditional PowerPoint tools (drawing, clip art, in serting a
pic ture, etc.).
Figure 7.5. Ex ample Tu torial and Quiz PowerPoint Slides
In the figure, slide numbers are shown in the up per left corner of the slide,
and the boxes indicate which pro cedures are tied to which but tons. Notice in the
figure that some of the but tons do not use VBA; they use traditional PowerPoint
hyperlinks. Fig ure 7.6 shows the VBA code. Note that the quiz por tion of this
example is fairly simple (it doesn’t keep score), but you can use any of the
110 Quizzes and Tests

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examples from this chapter and plug the code into the
Ini 
tial 
ize
pro ce dure
(add that code to earlier
Ini 
tial 
ize
procedures; never cre ate two separate
Ini 
tial 
ize
pro 
cedures) and add the 
ReturnToMenuFromPart1
,
ReturnToMenuFromPart2
,