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

Ex er cises to Try
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In the section “Try Again and Again: Answer Again Af ter It’s
Right,” we cre 
ated a sim 
ple multiple-choice quiz that only
counts the student’s first try on each question. Try to add two
more mul tiple-choice ques tions to the quiz. Re member that you
will need ad ditional vari ables
q3answered
and 
q4answered
as 
well as 
RightAnswer3
,
WrongAnswer3
,
RightAnswer4
, and
WrongAnswer4
pro ce dures.
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In the section “Short-Answer Quiz Questions,” we added
short-answer questions to our multiple-choice quiz. Try add ing
two more short-answer questions to your quiz. Re member that
you will need additional
Ques 
tion
,
RightAnswer
, and
WrongAnswer
pro ce dures.
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In the section “How Did You Do: Reporting Results to the
Teacher,” we cre ated a slide with the re sults that was ready to be
printed. Fol low the di rections in that section to add two addi-
tional ques tions to your quiz. One should be a mul tiple-choice
question, and the other should be a short-answer question.
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In the section “Learn First, Ask Questions Later: The Tu torial
and Quiz,” you created a simple tu torial and quiz with the shapes
hidden and shown—to indicate which sections of the tu torial
were completed—and a Quiz but ton that is hid den un til all sec-
tions of the tu torial are fin ished. Add a fourth section to your tu-
torial and use one of the more com plex quiz structures (at least
something that keeps score) for your quiz.
116 Quizzes and Tests

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8
More Tricks for Your
Script ing Bag
In tro duc tion
In Chapter 7 you used all the tricks you had learned in pre vious chapters to
create quiz zes and tests. This chapter will add to your scripting bag of tricks to
help you do more with the ex amples from pre vious chapters, create some of your 
own ex amples, and un derstand some of the things you have already used. You
will learn more about