Adding an interactive game to a PowerPoint presentation

Why settle for making boring PowerPoint presentations containing just text and pictures? It is incredibly easy to make an interactive quiz game using the What2Learn game generator and add the game to your presentation. This provides a great means of adding interest for your audience as well as for testing and enhancing understanding of the information your presentation has provided.

The instructions provided here are based on Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 – your version may differ slightly.

Click here to see an example PowerPoint presentation with a What2Learn game embedded.

Step One: Make a game using the What2Learn game generator. This is quick and easy to do – simply select the game engine you want to use and fill in a form stating the questions and answers you want.

Step Two: Copy the embed code for your game and paste it into a text-editing application like Notepad. The embed code can be found to the right of your game. Then find the ‘value’ reference (highlighted below) and copy it.

Step Three: In PowerPoint, show the Control Toolbox by pressing View then Toolbars then Control Toolbox. Select ‘More Controls’ from the control toolbox toolbar.

From the next list of options select Shockwave Flash Object and make a box on your PowerPoint slide where you would like the game to appear.

Step Four: Right-click on the box you have drawn and select Properties. You then need to paste the your game’s value reference from Step Two into the Movie field of the Properties Window.