Are your PowerPoint presentations lacking impact and failing to engage your audience? You’re not alone. I experienced that before. I used to spend hours carefully crafting the perfect PowerPoint presentations only to be met with disinterested faces.
In a world where attention spans are getting shorter, traditional PowerPoint presentations often struggle to hold the interest of the audience. So here’s the hard truth: unless you adapt and embrace interactivity in your PowerPoint presentations, your valuable hard work and content run the risk of getting lost in presentations.
Fret not, as in this comprehensive guide, we will share with you expert tips on how you can make your PowerPoint go from basic to advanced through making it interactive animations, transitions, hyperlinks, quizzes, games, and many more. And perhaps the sweetest part of the deal is that you will also have access to a downloadable playbook of 66 pages with a wealth of tutorials, templates, cheat sheets, resources and tools to elevate your PowerPoint skills from average to extraordinary through interactive PowerPoint presentations.
Are you prepared to impress those who once found your presentation dull? If your answer is a resounding ‘yes,’ then let’s begin.
Guide to Create Interactive PowerPoint Presentations
- Understanding Interactive PowerPoint
- Expert Tip #1: Use Animations, But Use Them Judiciously
- Expert Tip #2: Animate Using PowerPoint 3D Stock Elements
- Expert Tip #3: Combine Animations With Triggers for Visual Excitement
- Expert Tip #4 Try Non-Linear Slide Transition
- Expert Tip #5 Master The Superpower of PowerPoint Morph
- Expert Tip #6: Hyperlinks Can Link to So Many More Places than Just Websites
- Expert Tip #7 Turn Static Data Visualization Into Interactive Ones
- Expert Tip #8 Incorporate Annotations Before and During Slideshow
- Expert Tip #9 PowerPoint Slides Turned Quizzes
- Expert Tip #10 Run Gradable Assessments inside PowerPoint
- Expert Tip #11 PowerPoint as A Creative Canvas for Brainstorming
- Expert Tip #12 Collaborative Multimedia Uploading
- Expert Tip #13 Create Playable Games In PowerPoint (Without Animations or Hyperlinks)
- Expert Tip #14 Run Real-Time Polls in PowerPoint
- Expert Tip #15 Try Interactive Bitmoji for Virtual Classrooms or Meetings
- Recap
Understanding Interactive PowerPoint
What Are Interactive PowerPoint Presentations?
Interactive PowerPoint presentations are simply PowerPoint presentations that are made interactive to convey information in a more dynamic and engaging manner.
Benefits of Creating Interactive PowerPoint Presentations
The fact that you are still reading this suggests that you don’t need further convincing on the benefits of interactive PowerPoint presentations.
However, if you do, here are some quick statistics:
68% of individuals hold the belief that interactive presentations have a greater potential for being remembered.
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This means that a simple action of making your PowerPoint slides interactive has a profound impact on how your presentation is received by the audience. From our years of experience creating interactive PowerPoint presentations, they generally:
- Increases engagement, motivation and knowledge retention.
- Result in better impression and more impactful messaging being conveyed.
- Allow presenters to better tailor their content or offerings to the audience or clients because they can gather real-time feedback.
- Open up room for creative storytelling and showcases.
How to Make an Interactive PowerPoint Presentation
Creating an interactive PowerPoint presentation involves deciding if you want to make your slide content interactive or if you want your audience to interact with your slides.
Interactive PowerPoint presentations can generally be divided into two main dimensions: interaction with slide content through interactive elements and fostering interaction with the audience.
Interaction with Slide Content:
In the first dimension, PowerPoint presentations are made interactive through enhancing the slides content with interactive elements, usually native to PowerPoint.
We will cover interactive elements including:
- Animations
- Transitions
- Hyperlinks
- Interactive data visualization
- Annotations.
They function to enhance slide interactivity through adding movement to static objects, enabling non-linear slides navigation, as well as adding a dynamic touch to data and information presentation.
Audience Interaction:
In the second dimension, PowerPoint presentations are made interactive through interaction between the presenter and the audience, usually with the help of PowerPoint add-in tools. We will cover:
- Quizzes
- Assessments
- Brainstorming
- Collaborative multimedia uploading
- Polls
- Games
Once you have decided which strategy you would like to use, you can then follow these step-by-step guide and the following expert tips to turn your PowerPoint slides into an interactive experience!
Expert Tip #1: Use Animations, But Use Them Judiciously
The first and most straightforward way of making your PowerPoint presentations interactive is through adding animations to your slides. However, so many people use PowerPoint animations the wrong way. PowerPoint animations are more than just making bullet points or images appear or fly in during your presentation.
Here are a few cool and unconventional ways to add interactivity to your PowerPoint presentations and draw your audience’s attention the way you want through animations:
- Use Motion Path to Guide Your Audience’s Focus: Use custom animation like “Motion Path” to guide your audience’s attention or teach things in motion like planet orbiting in the solar system and kinetic energy in physics.
- Use Emphasis Animations for Object Emphasis: Use animation effects like “Grow/Shrink” or “Pulse” to images or objects to make them enlarge or pulsate when clicked for emphasis.
- Progress Bar Simulation: Use animations like “Fly In” or “Wipe” to create progress bars or loading screens that show the progress of your presentation or inform the audience when your presentation will start.
- Handwriting Effect With PowerPoint Annotations: Annotate your slides with PowerPoint Draw and use either the “Wipe” animation or “Ink Replay” animation to reveal the annotations to simulate a handwriting effect.
- Character Animations or Storytelling: If you’re telling a story or conveying a narrative, use character animations to simulate character movements or actions in your slides. For instance, make a character walk across the screen using custom animation like “Motion Paths”. You can also get creative by duplicating the characters in your slides and make adjustments to their position, posture or expressions, then use PowerPoint “Morph” to simulate change in expression or movement. More about PowerPoint Morph later!
- PowerPoint Timer: Even though there is no native timer in PowerPoint, you can use animations like “Spin”, “Disappear” and “Fly Out” to simulate a real-life countdown clock. Read here for a complete tutorial on how to add timer to PowerPoint using animations.
Expert Tip #2: Animate Using PowerPoint 3D Stock Elements
Did you know that PowerPoint has free animated 3D elements you can use? We recommend you to try them up to instantly upgrade your presentation from ordinary to extraordinary.
❓How? Simply go to Insert > 3D models > stock 3D models > animated models. And you will find a wide range of free 3D models ranging from food and animals to plants and characters, and many more. You can also select different animation scenes by heading to the Animations tab.
Pro Tip: There are a couple PowerPoint animations associated with these 3D models, which can be used to further enhance the original 3D animation effects, such as Arrive, Swing, Turntable and Jump Turn. Try them out to make your 3D models appear as if they are spinning or flipping in three dimensions!Remember, using animations excessively in your PowerPoint presentation will only reduce the appeal and professionalism of your slides. The key is to use them judiciously and purposefully. Before you hit the “Animations” tab, ask yourself, “Does this animation enhance the message I want to convey to my audience?”
If you are an educator, here are 8 more quick and easy PowerPoint animations to use in any lessons.Download our Interactive PowerPoint Playbook for a free PowerPoint animation cheat sheet. 👇
Expert Tip #3: Combine Animations With Triggers for Visual Excitement
You can take your PowerPoint animations up a notch by incorporating combining animations with triggers to create interactive pop-ups with extra information. These on-click pop-ups are valuable when presenting a map or when you want to explore specific aspects of an object or topic in more detail. You can also use these pop-ups as markers to alert the audience to exciting elements within different parts of the slide, as such:
❓How? To create on-click pop-ups in your PowerPoint slides, first add shapes that will become clickable buttons, one to “open” the pop-up and the other to “close” the pop-up. Then, add text boxes with extra information you want to show, as well as entrance and exit animations. Combine the animations with “triggers” to activate the animations when the open or close buttons are clicked on.
For a more detailed tutorial on this pop-up animation, download our Interactive PowerPoint Playbook above. 👆
Expert Tip #4 Try Non-Linear Slide Transition
A quick way to add interactivity to your PowerPoint slides is by using PowerPoint transitions. The first we want to discuss is PowerPoint Zoom. PowerPoint Zoom enables you to zoom in and out of and navigate to specific sections or slides on click, anytime during your presentation.
To access the PowerPoint Zoom feature: click on Insert in the PowerPoint ribbon > Zoom > then choose Slide, Section, or Summary Zoom. Each of these PowerPoint Zoom option serves slightly different functions:
- Slide Zoom: zooms into specific slides
- Section zoom: zooms into specific sections
- Summary Zoom: creates a summary slide for the different slides or sections in your PowerPoint presentation for easy navigation.
❓ How? To set up PowerPoint slide zoom, select the starting slide where you wish to implement the Zoom effect. Next, click Insert > Zoom > Slide Zoom. Here, you can pick the specific slide or slides you want to zoom in on. Click the Insert button, and thumbnails of the chosen slides will be added to your current slide.
To learn how to use PowerPoint Section Zoom and Summary Zoom, read this article for a complete tutorial of PowerPoint Zoom.Alternatively, for a more manual setup process, you can also set up a navigation menu at the beginning of your presentation that allows the audience to jump to different sections or slides using hyperlinks.
Read more in the Hyperlinks section below.
Expert Tip #5 Master The Superpower of PowerPoint Morph
Like PowerPoint Zoom, PowerPoint Morph empowers presenters to create dynamic transitions that elevate the visual storytelling in their presentations. But PowerPoint Morph brings storytelling to a whole new level and adds a layer of intrigue to your slides by simulating object transitions or evolution across slides. It functions similarly to animations but offers a smoother and more organic visual experience, without the need for complex setup steps.
Personally, we think the outcomes generated by PowerPoint Morph are more professional and polished-looking as compared to traditional animations.
Here is a simple PowerPoint Morph tutorial alongside a free template to get you started.We’d also like to share with you the numerous applications of PowerPoint Morph contributed by our colleagues and PowerPoint professionals at ClassPoint:
- Timeline
- Moving background
- Split text
- Rotating wheel
- Rotating cogs
- Photo gallery
- Slide Zoom with Morph
- Creative reveal
- Zoom focus
- Parallax effect
- Continuous slide transition
- Phone frame
- Movie frame
- Netflix
- Flip Card
Gain access to free templates for all these PowerPoint Morph applications and effects by downloading our Interactive PowerPoint Playbook. 👇
Pro tip: For more customizability and versatility, try ClassPoint’s Draggable Objects in replacement of PowerPoint morph to drag objects freely in slideshow mode.For a more advanced Morph transition look, you can consider using 3D animated models, or customized shapes.
Here is a quick tutorial on how to create a 3D morph animation In PowerPoint.Expert Tip #6: Hyperlinks Can Link to So Many More Places than Just Websites
Much like PowerPoint Zoom, hyperlinks enable presenters to create interactive menus and navigation structures, allowing audiences to jump to specific slides or sections effortlessly. However, while PowerPoint Zoom primarily focuses on creating a visual and interactive overview of content within a single presentation, hyperlinks extend this capability to connect with external resources, web content, or even additional PowerPoint files.
There are a few ways you could add hyperlinks to your PowerPoint presentation to transform it into an interactive experience effortlessly:
4 Ways You Can Add Hyperlinks to PowerPoint:
- Slide Transition: You can navigate to specific slides in a non-linear manner by simply inserting a hyperlink into your current slide. Head over to Insert > Link > This Document and select the slide you want to link to. You can apply hyperlinks to text, shapes, or pictures.
- Interactive Navigation Menu: Adding an interactive navigation menu at the beginning of your presentation allows clear navigation between different slides and sections in your presentation. Head over to Insert > Link > This Document and select the slides you want to link to.
- Action Buttons: With hyperlinks, you can also create Action Buttons in your PowerPoint presentations to make your PowerPoint slides behave like interactive web pages, allowing users to navigate, explore, and engage with the content in a dynamic and user-friendly manner. Head over to Insert > Action Buttons and choose from the selection.
- Embedded Content: You can also hyperlink your PowerPoint slides to embedded content like PDFs, spreadsheets, and even web pages. Simply click Insert > Object and select the file you would like to embed in your PowerPoint slides. This way, you can remove the hassle of toggling between various files or windows during your presentation.
Expert Tip #7 Turn Static Data Visualization Into Interactive Ones
PowerPoint animations can also be applied to visual representations of data such as graphs, diagrams, charts and infographics to enhance the audience’s comprehension of the information. There are two main ways to create interactive data visualization:
- Interactive Data Visualization Using PPT Animations: The first way is applying PowerPoint animations for data reveals in graphs, charts and infographics. When presenting data, applying animation effects to graphs and charts to reveal data points or steps sequentially allows the audience to better follow the logical progression and intricate relationships of your content.
Below is a list of 10 PowerPoint animations most suitable for different kinds of graphs and charts:
Graph/Chart TypePowerPoint AnimationPie chartWheelBar chartWipeLine chartDrawArea chartWipeGantt ChartMotion pathFunnel ChartAppearTree MapZoomWaterfall ChartAppearBubble ChartGrow/ShrinkScatter PlotZoom
- Interactive Data Visualization Using PPT Animations and Triggers: The second way is combining PowerPoint animations with triggers, whereby specific data or extra information will be revealed when triggered by clicks on certain elements in the slides.
Refer to our previous notes on ‘Triggers and Pop-Ups’ on how to set up interactive data visualization using pop-ups in PowerPoint.
Expert Tip #8 Incorporate Annotations Before and During Slideshow
Another unique way to interact with your PowerPoint slides is through the use of annotations. With annotations, you as the presenter can interact with your slides to draw your audience’s attention to specific details, highlight key points, and tell a more coherent story.
There are 3 ways you could use annotations in PowerPoint:
- PowerPoint Draw Tab: To utilize the PowerPoint Draw Tab, click on the “Draw” tab in your PowerPoint ribbon and begin annotating anywhere on your slides using built-in features like the pen, highlighter, and Ink to Shape. However, please note that PowerPoint Draw only allows annotation in Edit mode.
Pro Tip: You can apply the “Ink Replay” or “Wipe” animations to simulate a handwriting effect for your annotations or drawings using PowerPoint Draw.- PowerPoint Pen Tools: Another option for native PowerPoint annotation tools that permit annotation during slideshow mode can be found by clicking the pencil icon located in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen during a presentation. You can use the pen, highlighter, or laser tools to annotate any part of your slides during the presentation.
- ClassPoint Toolbar: The ClassPoint toolbar serves as an enhanced, free alternative to PowerPoint’s existing pen tools. It offers a broader range of additional annotation features, including text boxes, shapes, spotlight effects, fully customizable pens and highlighters, and more. This enables you to transform your PowerPoint slides into a creative canvas that will captivate your audience throughout your presentation.
Expert Tip #9 PowerPoint Slides Turned Quizzes
The traditional way to add interactive quizzes to PowerPoint is through an unfavorable process of combining complex animations with triggers and hyperlinks. Let’s be honest, it takes an eternity! Even though PowerPoint offers an extensive range of presentation tools, it does not have audience interactivity built at its core.
The good news is, audience interactivity can actually be effortlessly achieved with the various PowerPoint add-ins as listed below:
Interactive PowerPoint Add-InQuizGamePollQ&AClassPoint✔️✔️✔️Mentimeter✔️✔️✔️Hypersay✔️✔️Poll Everywhere✔️Slido✔️✔️✔️Slide Lizard✔️✔️✔️Zeetings✔️Aha Slides✔️✔️✔️
We will get to polls and games in a bit. For now, let’s show you how you can turn your PowerPoint slides into an interactive quiz in a just a few clicks with PowerPoint add-ins like ClassPoint, which offers a wide range of interactive quizzes from Short Answer and Word Cloud, to Multiple Choice questions.
How to Create An Interactive Quiz in PowerPoint In A Few Clicks
Once you have downloaded ClassPoint, you will have a suite of additional interactive quiz features added to your PowerPoint ribbon.
To turn your PowerPoint slide content into interactive quizzes, simply click on any of the interactive quiz features and add them to your slide. Enter PowerPoint Slideshow mode and you can start the quiz immediately.
Read here for an in depth tutorial and 50 use cases on creating interactive quizzes in PowerPoint.Expert Tip #10 Run Gradable Assessments inside PowerPoint
With the versatile PowerPoint add-in, ClassPoint, you can also create assessments and collect real-time responses right inside PowerPoint. This is wonderful news for teachers! All you have to do is set up interactive Multiple Choice questions and enable Quiz Mode.
ClassPoint’s Quiz Mode introduces an automatic grading feature to your Multiple Choice questions within PowerPoint presentations created with ClassPoint. This feature not only automates the grading process but also includes automatic star ratings, the option to select difficulty levels, and provides a quiz summary along with an exportable quiz report, making it the perfect tool for classroom formative assessments in PowerPoint!
Here is how to set up an assessment with automatic grading in PowerPoint.Expert Tip #11 PowerPoint as A Creative Canvas for Brainstorming
The uses of interactive PowerPoint add-ins like ClassPoint are not only limited to teaching and learning. Give your PowerPoint meetings and presentations a strong start with a collaborative and dynamic brainstorming experience. You can enhance your PowerPoint presentations and turn them into an interactive brainstorming experience by incorporating Word Cloud in PowerPoint, inviting participants to instantly contribute ideas, keywords, or concepts. This allows everyone to dynamically visualize emerging trends and interesting ideas.
To start a brainstorming session in PowerPoint, click on the “Word Cloud” button in your PowerPoint ribbon once you have downloaded ClassPoint to add the “Word Cloud” feature in your PowerPoint slides. Then enter PowerPoint slideshow mode to start brainstorming!
Read the full Word Cloud tutorial and ways you can incorporate Word Cloud in your lessons here.Expert Tip #12 Collaborative Multimedia Uploading
With interactivity-driven PowerPoint add-ins like ClassPoint, you can venture beyond the confines of uploading media in traditional PowerPoint by turning your PowerPoint presentations into a collaborative arena of multimedia contribution. With features like Image Upload, Video Upload and Audio Record, you can gather and source multimedia contributions from your audience to enrich your presentations and foster a more engaging and interactive environment, enhancing the overall impact of your message.
❓ How? To add collaborative multimedia upload features in PowerPoint, click the Image Upload, Video Upload or Audio Record buttons in your PowerPoint ribbon and add them to your slide.
Enter PowerPoint Slideshow mode and you can start gathering multimedia from the participants immediately.
This collaborative multimedia upload feature in PowerPoint is particularly well-suited for creative projects, both in educational settings and the workplace. Here are different ways you can use image upload in your presentation.
Here is a quick access to the detailed tutorials for Image Upload, Video Upload and Audio Record.Expert Tip #13 Create Playable Games In PowerPoint (Without Animations or Hyperlinks)
Much like interactive quizzes, PowerPoint games add a layer of interactivity and fun to PowerPoint presentations. However, what sets PowerPoint games apart is their ability to introduce competition through gamification.
Here are 3 ways you can instantly gamify your PowerPoint slides with gamification elements:
- Set Up a Point and Reward System: Define how your participants can earn stars and points, and award stars to them when they have accomplished a goal during your presentation.
- Add Levels and Badges to PowerPoint: Every game benefits from having levels and badges, and your PowerPoint game is no exception. You can create a simple game within PowerPoint by incorporating questions into your slides and defining the points and scores needed to progress to higher levels. When it comes to badges, you have the creative freedom to tailor them to your audience. For example, in an educational setting, badges can be skill-focused, while in a social gathering, they can take the form of fantasy characters that participants aspire to collect
- Add a Leaderboard to PowerPoint: Leaderboards are essential to keep track of scores or points during a PowerPoint game. You can of course create a manual leaderboard using PowerPoint’s tables and hyperlinks, but an easier and more straightforward way of implementing a leaderboard in your PowerPoint is using add-ins like ClassPoint and Vevox.
With these fundamentals of gamification in place, you are now ready to create fun and exhilarating games in PowerPoint.
Here is a full walk-through on how you can create a PowerPoint game in a few simple steps.Below we will share with you the tips and steps to create the commonly played games in PowerPoint, as well as free PowerPoint game templates you can customize.
Trivia Games
First up, we have trivia games. Everyone is familiar with trivia games. They are engaging quizzes where participants answer questions on a wide range of topics to test their knowledge and compete for points or prizes.
🎮 To create a trivia game in PowerPoint: Add trivia questions to your PowerPoint slides and interactive quiz buttons from ClassPoint to turn the questions into interactive quizzes. Then, enter Slideshow mode to start the game. Award stars to participants who answered the trivia questions correctly and display the rankings on leaderboard. You can also spice up the game by dividing your participants into groups using Name Picker and let different groups compete against each other!
Read the full tutorial and download the free trivia PowerPoint template here.Popular American Game Shows
Now let’s talk about the 3 all-time favorites in American game shows: Family Feud, Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, and how you can turn them into PowerPoint games that you can play with your family, friends or even co-workers during game nights!
Family Feud
“Family Feud” is a well-known television game show where two families, each typically comprised of five members, engage in friendly competition as they attempt to guess the top answers from survey questions. These survey questions, previously answered by a group of 100 individuals, usually offer multiple potential responses and can be presented in multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank formats.
🎮 To create a Family Feud Game in PowerPoint: Create the clue/question slides and incorporate concealed survey answers. Then, add interactive quiz buttons from your PowerPoint ribbon to your slides.
Our recommendations? Use Word Cloud or Fill in the Blanks question format as they are especially suitable for Family Feud games. Start the game and reveal the answers one by one after contestants’ responses by using ClassPoint’s Draggable Objects. Keep track of the scores of each family or team manually or using a leaderboard.
Here is how you can turn any of the items on your PowerPoint slides into objects you can drag in slideshow mode in a few clicks.Read the full tutorial and download the free Family Feud PowerPoint template here.
Jeopardy
“Jeopardy!” is another iconic American game show. The traditional show format features three rounds: Jeopardy!, Double Jeopardy!, and Final Jeopardy!. In each of these rounds, three contestants select clues from a game board with various categories and cash values. These clues are presented as answers, and participants must respond in the form of a question. You can simplify the game and modify the game ruleswhen playing in PowerPoint.
🎮 To create a Jeopardy Game in PowerPoint: Start by creating a game board using PowerPoint table; make it 6 columns for different quiz categories and put 5 clues under each column, in increasing point value and difficulty. Next, select at least one clue from the game board to designate as the ‘Daily Double’. Start the game by collecting responses using Short Answer, the best companion for Jeopardy game in PowerPoint. Once you have received responses from the participants, reveal the answers by using ClassPoint’s Draggable Objects, or you can do so using hyperlinks. Keep track of the scores manually or using a leaderboard.
Read the full tutorial and download the Jeopardy PowerPoint template here.Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune, also an American TV game show, involves contestants solving word puzzles by spinning a wheel to win cash and prizes. It consists of three rounds: toss-up, main game, and bonus round, typically with three contestants. The main game includes spinning the wheel, guessing consonants for cash, and solving the puzzle. Special tokens and wedges add excitement. The bonus round is a timed puzzle-solving challenge. Likewise, you can simplify the game by choosing not to play the toss-up and bonus rounds when playing in PowerPoint.
To create a Wheel of Fortune Game in PowerPoint: First, set up the Wheel of Fortune using ClassPoint’s Name Picker spinning wheel, adding in awards in the wedges in Class List.
Next, set up the puzzle boards and populate them with covered up letters. Start the game! To run the “Wheel of Fortune” using the Name Picker, enter slideshow mode, and click on “Name Picker” in the ClassPoint toolbar at the bottom of your screen. Then, start spinning! Reveal the letters upon each correct guess by using ClassPoint’s Draggable Objects. And keep track of the scores manually or using a leaderboard.
Read the full tutorial on setting up toss-up and bonus rounds, and download the Wheel of Fortune PowerPoint template here.Download our Interactive PowerPoint Playbook for a wealth of free interactive PowerPoint templates and tutorials. 👇
Classroom Games & Quests
This article wouldn’t be complete without mentioning games educators can easily set up and play in PowerPoint. Classroom games and quests can easily inject an element of fun and competition into the classroom, and turn traditional sleep-inducing lectures into dynamic, immersive experiences.
Below are 5 examples of classroom quests you can set up easily in PowerPoint and play with your students:
#1 Scavenger Hunts
Scavenger hunts are games where students seek hidden questions or tasks that guide them to valuable rewards like bonus points or badges. You can create a Scavenger hunt board with clues, and allocate a certain amount of points to each tasks. Then, use this leaderboard in PowerPoint to keep track of the stars you have awarded to your students who have accomplished the tasks. Students can also up-level and earn badges, just like in real-life games.
#2 Current Event Question Hunt
Engage students and test their current event knowledge by posing questions related to current events or topics in the form of interactive quizzes in PowerPoint. Correct answers can earn students points and a higher position on the leaderboard. For extra credit, teachers can introduce bonus questions on learning management systems or social media, encouraging students to answer outside of class.
#3 Mission QR Codes
You can also turn classroom quests into exciting missions using mission QR codes linked to quiz questions in PowerPoint. You can easily set this up by first creating quiz question sets in your PowerPoint, and then taking a screenshot of your ClassPoint class QR code. Finally, scatter these QR codes throughout your classroom and you will soon witness your students eagerly engaged and on the edge of their seats. You can also encourage students to learn beyond class hours with mission QR codes using PowerPoint add-ins which allow asynchronous learning like Mentimeter.
#4 Drag and Drop
Utilizing drag and drop features in classroom quests adds a dynamic and interactive dimension to the learning experience. We recommend integrating your classroom quests with this interactive puzzle using Draggable Objects. That way, you can add more anticipation and suspense when you reveal the clues or hidden information to any of the quest games you created. We bet your students cannot wait for you to reveal the next piece of clue or task!
Here are 8 exciting ways you can teach with drag and drop in your next lesson.And don’t forget to add a spinning wheel of names to your PowerPoint to spice up any of these classroom games with suspense and anticipation. Whether it is selecting participants for a quiz, grouping team members, or even choosing a random student to answer a question, the spinning wheel of names can instantly elevate the classroom atmosphere and turn your PowerPoint into an interactive, unforgettable tool your students love!
For more classroom game templates, check out:
5 Interactive PowerPoint Game Templates for Unforgettable Lessons
Expert Tip #14 Run Real-Time Polls in PowerPoint
Think of a memorable presentation you have attended? Did it use live polls? We bet it did! Live polling instantly enhances interactivity by allowing presenters to engage their audience directly within the presentation.
Traditional poll tools require presenters to switch between tabs during presentation. Thanks to PowerPoint add-ins such as ClassPoint, Mentimeter and Poll Everywhere, this is no longer the case. And by eliminating the need to switch between different applications or tabs, the presentation experience becomes more fluid and engaging.
Here is a complete tutorial on how to run a quick poll in PowerPoint.Expert Tip #15 Try Interactive Bitmoji for Virtual Classrooms or Meetings
I mean, who doesn’t love Bitmoji? Bitmoji took the internet by storm during the pandemic when meetings and classes transitioned online overnight. Employers and teachers needed a way to inject fun and a human touch into these seemingly cold screens of Zoom and Google Meet. Bitmoji continues to thrive in popularity even now, thanks to its ability to create a lively and interactive atmosphere that enhances participant engagement and retention.
Bitmoji can serve as virtual hosts or guides, leading participants through content, quizzes, or activities. They can even be integrated into quizzes or polls, providing a unique way for participants to express themselves or make choices.
Here are 3 unique ways you can create and use an interactive bitmoji classroom in PowerPoint, using hyperlinks and PowerPoint Morph.Recap
Now that you have a collection of strategies and tips at your disposal, you are better prepared to leave your old and dusty PowerPoint toolkit behind and embrace these refreshing ideas. Whether your ultimate aim is to create a captivating classroom experience, deliver a memorable business pitch, or simply wow your friends and peers during PowerPoint nights, don’t forget to:
- Add animations, but use them sparingly.
- Make use of non-linear transitions and storytelling.
- Turn simple transitions into stunning visual experience with PowerPoint Morph.
- Make creative use of polls, quizzes and games.
- Make your presentation human with Bitmoji.
- Build anticipation with interactive presentation tools like annotations and drag and drop.
- Try out these 160 fun PowerPoint ideas for your next presentation!
Read this step-by-step guide to create a quick interactive PowerPoint presentation.To read more about Interactive PowerPoint Presentations, you can download our Interactive PowerPoint Playbook, which includes comprehensive guides, tutorials on various interactive PowerPoint presentation methods, cheat sheets, and a wide range of resources for mastering the art of creating interactive PowerPoint presentations.
The question now is, are you ready to unlock your full presentation potential and create PowerPoint masterpieces that will leave your audience in awe? Our tools and guides are here to provide you with ideas and inspiration, but true success lies in you being truly committed you want to make your presentations shine! Download the playbook now to get started.
Further Readings:
How to Make an Interactive PowerPoint Presentation: An Easy Step-by-Step Guide
Try These 160 Insanely Fun PowerPoint Ideas for Your Next Presentation
200+ Mind-Blowing PowerPoint Night Ideas (Templates Included)
