Is there a way to present quiz scores interactively in keynote?

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Is there a way to present quiz scores interactively in keynote?

I am putting together a Christmas family quiz in Keynote. Questions are illustrated with pictures, sounds or movie clips.

Participants should be divided into two (or three or so) teams, and as they answer the questions, they are given points that add to a total score, which increases as the quiz progresses and the we work our way through the slides.

It would be great if there were a way to add scores and show them in the presentation as the presentations moves forward! It can be done by quitting and then returning, but that is not very aesthetic.

Another issue: is there an easy way to move among the slides during a presentation other than the next before or after?

Many thanks for any effort!

BR

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Pages '09 v 4.1

Posted on Jul 11, 2012 7:36 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 11, 2012 12:26 PM in response to Martjenko

Assuming the answers are multiple choice, you could make each answer a hyperlink. The correct answer on the first question would take you to question two, with a score of "1" indicated on the slide. An incorrect answer would take you to a different version of question two, with a score of "0" indicated on that slide. Use similar hyperlinks for the correct and incorrect answers on both versions of question two, etc.

The number of slides needed will rapidly become unmanageable as the number of questions increases so it is only really feasible for short quizzes.

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Martjenko Author

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Jul 12, 2012 1:25 PM in response to John De Banzie

Hi,

Thanks for your proposal! :-)

I suppose it also very much hints that there may not be any "interactive" way of allocating scores as the presentation goes on - editing the file while running it.

Actually, I want the questions not to be limited to multiple choice. I ran a first quiz last Xmas, and in my opinion it looked quite nice in Keynote. But the scoring feature would be a definite improvement, also adding nerve.

If it were included in the presenter's "cockpit" view, that would seem a good solution, I think.

I tested if I could run two screens with one presentation in each, or one with the keynote presentation and a numbers presentation in the other, but it seems running keynote turns off the multiple screen ability, or am I wrong?

Anyway, I can always resort to scribbling down the points on a paper, and then presenting them in numbers or excel afterwards, or perhaps halfway through and then at the end.

BR

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