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Jul 25, 2023

How to Create an Interactive Quiz in Google Slides

Want to create engaging quizzes for your students or audience? Learn how to do it in Google Slides with this step-by-step guide. Remote learning's evolution has made it crucial for educators to adapt

Want to create engaging quizzes for your students or audience? Learn how to do it in Google Slides with this step-by-step guide.

Remote learning's evolution has made it crucial for educators to adapt and find engaging teaching methods. One excellent method to engage your audience and test their knowledge in a fun way is through an interactive quiz.

Google Slides is one of the primary platforms used for remote learning resources. You can combine the best of both worlds by adding quizzes directly to your Google Slides presentations to seamlessly educate and assess.

Google Slides doesn't have a dedicated quiz feature. Despite this, once you break down the elements of a quiz, you can easily make it in Google Slides.

A quiz typically comprises a question, multiple choices, landing pages for correct and incorrect answers, and a detailed explanation of the correct answer. Once you create these using basic tools in Google Slides, you can link them together to create a fully interactive quiz.

Before diving into creating the quiz, take a moment to outline it. Decide on the number of questions, their formats, the number of choices, and each choice's reaction. Another integral part of the outline is the link roadmap. For example, what links should be available if the student chooses the wrong answer? Should the quiz instantly display the correct answer?

A proper outline is all the more critical if your quiz is going to have many questions. This way, you can create the first question, duplicate it, and then edit the duplicates.

You can take a look at our sample Google Slides Quiz to get an idea of what an interactive quiz can look like. Open the link and start the slideshow. Note that the choice landing slides and the answer slides are only available through the links in the slideshow.

Once you have an outline in mind, you can start creating your quiz. The first step is to create the question slides. Open Google Slides, create a new presentation, and let's get started.

This slide will have two elements: the question and the choices. The best way to do this is to use the Title and body slide layout. Navigate to the Slide tab and select Apply layout. From there, select Title and body.

Type the question in the title, then add the choices in the body. Number the question by adding something like Q1. It's a good idea to do this for every slide, so you can quickly identify them in the future.

You can put the choices in separate text boxes if you want to have the choices as distinct objects. Go to the Insert menu, select Text box, and then draw a text box over the slide. This allows you to freely position each choice and add different animations to them.

For each question, you'll need to create landing slides for both correct and incorrect choices. Since the question has one correct answer and the other choices are incorrect, you need only two slides.

You could go beyond this and create individual incorrect answer slides for each choice and offer unique feedback on each. However, we will stick with generic landing pages for this example.

Now it's time to add navigational buttons. You can add a button to take the viewer back to the question and another to the slide containing the complete answer. You can add these elements as text boxes like before or use shapes to mimic buttons.

In this example, we've used two rounded rectangles. One is to return to the question, and the other is to reveal the full answer. Alternatively, you can also draw your own shapes in Google Slides.

Regardless of the answer the viewer chooses, the learning process is not complete until you provide them with the full answer to the question. Create a slide and type in the full answer or a walkthrough on how to solve the problem.

A return-to-question shape would make the slide a button; the viewer won't have to go through the slides to get back to the questions. Insert the shape, or copy the one from the previous slides.

Now that you've got one instance of each slide type, you can duplicate them for each question.

A coherent slide arrangement contributes to a seamless learning journey and prevents confusion. It's best that you arrange all the questions back to back and skip the rest of the slides.

This way, clicking on the presentation will take the viewer to the next question. The rest of the slides will only be accessible through the links.

You can rearrange the slides by grabbing their thumbnails and dropping them in the new position. To skip a slide, right-click on its thumbnail and select Skip slide.

It's time to turn your presentation into an interactive quiz! For each button and choice you've added, create a link that directs you to the corresponding slide.

Repeat this for the various clickable elements. On the question slide, the correct choice should link to the correct answer landing slide, and the incorrect choices should lead to the incorrect answer landing slide.

The landing slides should have two links themselves: one to reveal the full answer and another to return to the question slide.

Finally, the full answer slide will only have one link, which will take the viewer back to the question.

Congratulations! Your Google Slides quiz is now ready! Before sharing the quiz with your audience, it's crucial to test it out yourself. Go through each question, try out the different choices, and use the navigation buttons to ensure everything works smoothly.

Once you're sure everything is as it should be, you can go ahead and share your presentation.

Creating and including interactive quizzes in your Google Slides presentations empowers you to better engage and educate your students in remote learning scenarios. You don't need to pay for a third-party extension to make a quiz in Google Slides. Everything you need is already there.

Following the step-by-step guide outlined here, you can design quizzes that capture the viewers' attention and allow them to self-assess their comprehension for a better learning experience. Whether you are an educator, trainer, or content creator, now you can take your Google Slides presentations to the next level with interactive quizzes.

Amir is a writer and junior editor at MUO. His love for writing and an affinity for organizing information took him to primarily write in the Productivity vertical. He enjoys driving, listening to music, and gaming in his free time. Amir has been writing tech articles for over 4 years and is currently pursuing a PharmD.