The Use of Custom Animation Triggers

[Guest]

I would like to give a learner in my PowerPoint CBT class an option to
choose from one to four leadership styles as an answer to a scenario
question. I will use a "Pick-Multiple" technique with associated triggers to
highlight the boxes checked for the different leadership styles. My challenge
is how do I determine what one or four boxes were checked on one slide to
determine where I branch the learning process so I can offer feedback on the
particular choice(s)?

Example:
The learner can pick one or four of the following classic leadership styles
to address a problem with one of her employees:
Supporting
Coaching
Directing
Delegating
They click on a box next to each style and I produce a check-mark by using
PowerPoint Triggers in Custom Animation.
Now I want to examine the learner's choice(s) of boxes and take him to
another slide based on the choices made.
Is there any easy and built-in-to-PowerPoint way for me to test those
checked boxes so I know what slide to go to next?

Thanks for any assistance you may be able to provide.

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

Oooooh. Wouldn't that be good! Lemme see.

Hmmmm. I don't have time to test it. But why not have one of four buttons
appear after each click response based on which trigger is clicked. Each of
the four results (only one of which will appear) can be hyperlinked to your
particular slide. The suer will only see one and not know they are getting
only one response box. And since it says something like "Click to continue",
they will never know. Make sense?

Click Supporting, then button appears hyperlinked to "supporting sldie.
Click Coaching and the box appears hyperlinked to Coaching slide? it would
have to be easier than vba.

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.powerpointworkbench.com

Australia

glen at powerpointworkbench dot com

Please tell us your PowerPoint / Windows version,
whether you are using vba, whether
your cows are in the corn paddock, or
anything else relevant.

 

[Guest]

Greetings Glen,

And thank you for your insightful and very prompt reply. Please bear with
me, an experienced PPT user, but alas, not one very savy in the finer
conditional processes like I'm attempting to accomplish.
Let me see if I can articulate my understanding of your suggestion. There
are four small boxes now with accompanying text as outlined in my original
posting. I come along as User #1 and I think the answer should be clicking on
Boxes #2 and #4, so I click once on each of those boxes. Now there are
displayed checkmarks on each of these boxes indicating what choices the user
has made.
Were you saying that instead of displaying checkmarks as trigger responses
to the box clicks, that I display a button for each response he makes? Re:
"But why not have one of four buttons appear after each click response based
on which trigger is clicked. Each of the four results (only one of which will
appear) can be hyperlinked to your particular slide. The suer will only see
one and not know they are getting
only one response box."
It's in here that I'm getting confused. It seems as if you're saying have
one of four buttons appear after each response, then "each of the four
results only one of which will appear.
If you allow me Glen, I can attach the slide in question to an e-mail to
you, so you can get a visual of what I'm trying to do, because when I sat
there and contemplated the number of choices among four elements, it started
to stagger my mind. Think about it, the user can choose just one box, all
four boxes, two different sets of two boxes, and I believe three or four
different combinations of three boxes. That is why I thought if I can't check
to test what particular boxes have been activated or displayed triggers, how
will I know where to branch.
Sorry for rambling on, but I guess I'm just one of thos "show & tell" kinda
guys. Let me know if I can send anything to your e-mail address, and maybe
that will help my explanation.

Thanks again.

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

Ramble away.... you are talking to an aussie!

I'd love a copy, and I can have a quick play with it. Or send you a sample I
did in San Diego. You can have check boxes as well. The only limitation is
how complicated it all gets! And it gets a lot more complicated if you want
someone to choose more than one choice!

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.powerpointworkbench.com

Australia

glen at powerpointworkbench dot com

Please tell us your PowerPoint / Windows version,
whether you are using vba, whether
your cows are in the corn paddock, or
anything else relevant.