Creating jpeg quizzes with PowerPoint

Now that PowerPoint allows you to easily save your slides as jpegs, it's a simple job to create these quizzes for mobile phones or any mobile device using PowerPoint. Just watch for the way PowerPoint numbers the slides so that you don't get caught out with slide1 being followed by slide11 (rather than slide2). To prevent this, you may want to re-number the slides slide01, slide02 etc.

Download the resources here.

My previous post on creating jpeg quizzes using MS Paint can be found by clicking here. It also contains the videos showing the quiz on a mobile phone.

Making jpeg quizzes

For some reason, I made these videos and never blogged about them. Luckily, Dave Foord has so it saves me having to say anymore: http://tinyurl.com/dfjpegquiz

A tutor came across Dave's blog and ran with the idea to produce a set of 92 quiz cards. Superb!
http://tinyurl.com/tesljpegquiz

Hope to gather more resources like this in future.

Regarding transfer of these files to a learner's mobile phone:

1. If the phone has a memory card, this is easily done through a usb memory card reader.

2. The learner may have a cable to attach the phone to a PC for file transfers

3. Bluetooth is a possibility but it would take a while to move 92 cards across, unless the phone is paired via Bluetooth with the computer.

4. If the phone has a data contract, then downloading the cards is a possibility, or even viewing them online.

With regards to doing the same thing using PowerPoint, as Dave Foord has pointed out, you have to rename the first 9 slides as slide01 (zero one) to slide09. My only worry is that people try to cram too much into a slide and so it won't work on a small screen. The beauty of Paint is that it's clunky and that keeps things in perspective, enabling the creation of jpeg quizzes that work on a small screen! If using PowerPoint, remember to change the size of the slide to better suit the portrait format of most phones. Not crucial since the learner can just turn their phone on its side, but navigation is sometimes easier when the phone is the right way up!