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ADDING A STUDENT SELF-CHECK QUIZ TO A MIX
Updated 10/29/2015
Think your students need a little extra to confirm that they’re “getting it” from your lectures?
Office Mix has an option to add interactive quiz style questions! This how-to guide will walk you
through the steps of adding multiple choice and true/false questions to a Mix.
1. Open the PowerPoint file/Mix in the PowerPoint program. Click the Mix tab.
2. Prior to adding questions, review your Mix to familiarize yourself of the content. (It can
be confusing to your students if you ask a question about a slide that you removed or
edited earlier!)
3. Because each question will take up a slide, in the slide thumbnails menu, select the slide
immediately before where you want the question slides to be placed. Right click and
create several new (blank) slides.
Figure 1. Creating blank slides for questions.
Adding a Multiple Choice Question
1. Click one of your new slides. Depending on the slide design/theme, you may have the
ability to add “Quiz Question 1” as a title for the slide.
Figure 2. Blank question slide with title.
2. In the Mix tool bar, click the Quizzes Videos Apps button.
Figure 3. Quizzes Videos Apps button in Mix.
3. Under Quizzes and Polls, click to add the Multiple Choice Quiz to your Mix.
Figure 4. Multiple Choice Quiz app in Mix.
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4. Agree that you Trust It to add a multiple choice question to your slide.
5. The Question Interface will appear, taking up the majority of the space on the slide.
Figure 5. Multiple Choice Question Interface—1) Question text box, 2) Hint bulb, 3) Single / Multiple
Choice options, 4) Number of Attempts options, 5) Answer options text boxes, 6) Add additional answer
button, and 7) Feedback text bubbles and correct answer checks.
6. Type the question in the given text box (shown in area 1 in the figure above).
7. Click the Hint bulb (shown in area 2 in the figure above) to add a hint for your students
(for example, the slide/section to find the answer)—this is optional.
8. Select if there is to be only one answer or multiple answers that should be chosen
(shown in area 3 above).
9. Choose whether or not students will be able to retry until they correctly answer a
question (shown in area 4 above).
10. Enter potential answer options in the text boxes given (area 5) and click the Add
another answer button (area 6) to have more text boxes provided.
11. Remember to select the check mark(s) next to the correct answer(s) (shown in area 7).
In this same area, you can click the speech bubble icon to add feedback for both correct
and incorrect answers.
12. Click the Preview button (at the bottom of the question creation interface) to preview
the question. If you like it, there is nothing else to do with the question—it will be saved
with your Mix when you upload it to the website. If you’d like to change something,
click the Edit button (again, it’s at the bottom of the question interface).
13. Repeat this process to add additional multiple choice questions to your Mix.
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Adding a True/False Question
1. Just as with adding a multiple choice question, click one of your new slides. If the theme
allows, you may want to give the question a title.
2. In the Mix tool bar, click the Quizzes Videos Apps button.
3. This time, click the True False Quiz app button and agree to Trust It.
Figure 6. True False Quiz button.
4. The Question Interface will appear, taking up the majority of the space on the slide.
Figure 7. True False Question interface—1)Question text box, 2) Hint bulb, 3) Correct answer check
mark and feedback text bubbles.
5. Type your question in the question text box (area 1 in the above figure).
6. Click the Hint bulb to supply a hint for students—this is optional.
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7. Make sure to select the check mark next to the correct answer. You can also click the
feedback text bubble to supply feedback for either answer (such feedback is optional but
helps students learn why an answer is correct or not).
8. Preview the question by clicking the Preview box. If it is good, go on to create another
question using the same method. If it isn’t, click the Edit box to return to the Question
creation interface.
9. Repeat the process to add more true/false questions.
Once you’ve added all the quiz questions you’d like to, if there is nothing left to add/record to
your Mix, you can upload it to the Mix website (this process is covered in the “Making a Simple
Audio/Video over PowerPoint with Mix” how-to guide). Please note: If you create an mp4
video, because mp4s are not interactive the quiz questions will not be visible as part of the
video. For the quiz to show to students, the Mix must be uploaded and linked to through the
Office Mix website.
*For further assistance, contact the Innovation in Learning Center at (251) 461 - 1888, or visit
our website at usailc.org.
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