Tips on Creating Interactive Branching in PowerPoint E-Learning

Adding some interactive decision-making to your rapid elearning course is a good idea.  Leslie from Education Breakthrough has a great screencast on how he created a branched interaction in PowerPoint.  This can be applied for rapid elearning courses if you’re using a tool like Articulate Presenter as well as something you can do in PowerPoint and present as a .pps file.

Learning PowerPoint: interactive branches and scenarios

Some key points from the tutorial:

  • He sets up the scenario.  You have a set of criteria with which to evaluate some people.
  • You evaluate the people.  As you return to the original slide, you notice the person visited has been marked off.
  • He provides a tour of the interaction and a flow chart to show how it works.
  • Here’s a link to the PDF that explains how he built the branched interaction in PowerPoint.

Check out the tutorial.

Click here to view the tutorial.

One thought on “Tips on Creating Interactive Branching in PowerPoint E-Learning

  1. […] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Tracy Parish, Jay Lambert. Jay Lambert said: RT @hamtra: Tips on Creating Interactive Branching in PowerPoint E-Learning http://bit.ly/fbQlct (great demo & resources) via @tomkuhlmann […]

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You may use these HTML tags and attributes:

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>