Template for Jeopardy-Like Quiz in OpenOffice Impress

An important part of learning is the review, and the more fun, the better. I use a vaguely Jeopardy-like review game in class to go over whatever we've covered that day. I have a template and make up the questions during lunch or break to address the content for that day.

I use Interaction for the squares in the first slide that go to each slide that has the question and answer. (Right-click on an object and choose Interaction, then select Go to Page or Object,  and select the slide to go to).

Here's what it looks like.

So if you'd like to create your own quizzes, here's what to do.

Download the Template in Presentation or Presentation Template Format
If you want to be able to choose File > New > Presentation and have the jeopardy template show up as an option:
1. Download this file. Right-click on this link and choose to save the link target to your computer.
2. In OpenOffice.org, choose File > Open and open it.
3. Choose File > Templates > Save, select a category, name the template, and click OK.
4. Choose File > New > Presentation, select From Template, and select the category you saved the template in. Click Create.
5. Make your changes and save the presentation

If you just want to open the file, fiddle with it, and save a version as your own copy:
1. Download this file (presentation format) or this file (template format). Right-click on this link and choose to save the link target to your computer.
2. In OpenOffice.org, choose File > Open and open it.
3. Choose File > Save As, save the document as a .odp file.
4. Make your changes to it. Save the presentation.

Entering Your Content

Just type the category you want at the top of each column of numbers, and then the appropriate category,  question and answer in each slide.

Modifying the Appearance
1. Choosing View > Master > Slide Master.
2. Change the formatting.

• To change the background color, choose Format > Page, Background tab, and select a new color.

• To change the color of any of the text, just select it, and choose Format > Character to change any formatting. You can also use the dropdown font and font size lists on the toolbar, and the A-shaped font color icon.

• To change the bullets, select the bullets and choose Format > Bullets and Numbering. Select the format you want (Graphics tab is a good one) then click OK.

4. Get back out of the master view by choosing View > Normal.
5. Change effects.

• To change the slide transitions, click on the Slide Sorter tab. Then click the Slide Transitions item in the right-hand pane. Select the slide or slides to change the transition for, and from the list at the right, select a different transition. Click the Normal tab to go back to normal view.

• To change how the bullets come in, in normal view click the Custom Animation item at the right side of the window. Select the effects that appear in the white box in the lower right corner. Expand the top-level effect and select each one. Click Change then select a different effect.

6. Change the color of any of the objects in the first slide.

• To change the color of any of the objects that are in the background, select them BY DRAWING AROUND THEM WITH YOUR MOUSE. If you click on them, they will run the Interaction.  So draw around them with your mouse, then from the dropdown lists at the top, select Color, Gradient, Hatching, or Bitmap, then the fill of your choice.

7. If you want to change the text inside any of the squares. Just double-click in the text itself, not in the square, and retype.

8. If you want to change what any of the objects do -- when you click each they currently go to a particular slide with a question and answer. If you want them to go to a different slide, or perform a different action, follow these steps.

• Select the object by drawing around it with your mouse pointer, not by clicking on it.
• Right-click on it and choose Interaction.
• In the window that appears, either select a different slide for it to go to when clicked, or from the dropdown list select a different action and enter any additional necessary information. For instance, one of the options is to open a particular file. You would then enter the path to the file.

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Comments

[Alan C. Baird]

I just tried the 4 tips in:

http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/12/finding_and_rep.html

and they don't work in 2.4.0. (That URL doesn't allow comments.)

[Solveig]

Hi Alan,

I tested them recently with 2.0 on Windows but I'll try again.

Solveig

[Alan C. Baird]

Solveig, my bad. I just discovered that I neglected to click More Options and Regular Expressions, extra steps that are not intuitive to a Word user. Feel free to delete these comments.

[JZA]

I wonder if a macro can auto-generate this. Shouldn't be very hard and useful to make examns on the education.

[Solveig]

Hi JZA,

Possibly -- I don't do macros but seems like it would be nice to be able to pull questions out of a database or text file.

solveig

[Fred Juan DIAZ]

Your work is very interesting.
When we (physics teacher team and I) tried to use this kind of test, with students, we found that an essential functionnality was missing in OOoImpress : possibility to go back to previous page (the page we came from).

So, we wrote an issue

http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=84362

I was surprised to see votes showing that few people considered this as important.

If this issue was solved, it would be easy to build a lot of quizes.

Friendly
Fred Juan DIAZ

[เฟอร์นิเจอร์ตกแต่งบ้าน]

great.