Interactivity in PowerPointUSING VISUAL BASIC

Set up your slide with the components you want

Invisible shapes for hotspots

Quiz questions and answers

Save as a macro-enabled presentation

File > Save As

View your developer tab

File > Options > Customize Ribbon

Add Visual Basic Code

Developer > Visual Basic

Insert > New Module

Each subroutine (sub) you write will

be a separate macro in your

presentation

To add a macro to an shape/text box

Select it

Go to Insert > Action

Choose “run macro” and pick the name of the

relevant subroutine

More complicated: adding a score

Variable to keep track of how many correct answers given

Each time an question is answered correctly, this increases by one

Show this value when the user has finished the quiz

More complicated: If each question is on a new slide

Moves on to the next slide once they have answered the question

More complicated: personalisationDeclare a username variable as a string (text)

Include the username in their welcome messageFind out their name