Not allow users to scroll through the whole presentation

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A friend of mine came to me with a power point presentation and wanted
to know if I could develop a visual basic application for him that
would allow him to give someone a copy of the powerpoint viewer and his
presentation on CD and let them view the presentation. The thing is he
is giving it to his students (he is a teacher) and he wants to be able
to make sure everyone who watches it sit's down and listens to the
whole thing because he has a code at the end that proves the student
has watched it. Rgith now they could just advance all the way to the
end and grab the code and he would never know they didn't watch it. I
have a feeling that this can be done in powerpoint without havign to
make an application in visual basic so I thought I'd come here and ask
first.

The only requirements I have is that the user can not advance forward
in the slideshow it must do it on it's own. The users must be able to
pause it though or be able to go back. Thanks for your help i apreciate
it!
 
You sure can.

Go to slide sorter view and un-check advance on mouse click and check use
automatic timing. Now just set the transition time to give them plenty of
time to read/hear each slide.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
 
Put navigation buttons on each slide (Next, Previous, etc.), then click the
"Slide Show" menu, select "Set up show", and select the "Browsed at a KIOSK"
option. This takes away all control. You can also animate the navigation
buttons on after all the other information on the slide comes up.

By the way, all animations MUST be set to "Automatic" since "On mouse click"
had been disabled.

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
 
All due respect to Austin, but students are smarter than their grades
sometimes show. Setting automatic timings can be bypassed easily by
pressing the arrow keys.

If you go to Slide Show > Set up show and set the show to Kiosk, only the
Escape key will work (they won't get to the code at the end). The teacher
will need to place "Previous" and "Next" navigation buttons on each slide
via the Slide Master, to allow going backward and forward, but the only way
to get to the last slide is to navigate through all slides. There is no way
to guarantee that they have read anything, however. <G> If he wants to
control the timing, he should not put the navigation buttons on the slides.
But that will preclude pausing and re-viewing previous slides. I guess he
could put a "Previous" button on each slide and leave off the "Next" button.
That would allow re-viewing slides, but they would have to sit through all
that follows again.

That said, students are still smart. If they have access to PowerPoint,
they can open the presentation in Normal View and "grab the code and go."
 
Yeah, I agree with you I mean anyone can do anythign to a computer if
htey know what they are doing. The thing is most people won't. He even
agreed that SOME but not many people wuold be able to find away around
it. Anyhow I will let him know and see what he wants to do. Thanks for
your feedback. Anyone have any other tips/ideas?
 
rxero said:
A friend of mine came to me with a power point presentation and wanted
to know if I could develop a visual basic application for him that
would allow him to give someone a copy of the powerpoint viewer and his
presentation on CD and let them view the presentation. The thing is he
is giving it to his students (he is a teacher) and he wants to be able
to make sure everyone who watches it sit's down and listens to the
whole thing because he has a code at the end that proves the student
has watched it. Rgith now they could just advance all the way to the
end and grab the code and he would never know they didn't watch it. I
have a feeling that this can be done in powerpoint without havign to
make an application in visual basic so I thought I'd come here and ask
first.

The only requirements I have is that the user can not advance forward
in the slideshow it must do it on it's own. The users must be able to
pause it though or be able to go back. Thanks for your help i apreciate
it!
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rxero said:
A friend of mine came to me with a power point presentation and wanted
to know if I could develop a visual basic application for him that
would allow him to give someone a copy of the powerpoint viewer and his
presentation on CD and let them view the presentation. The thing is he
is giving it to his students (he is a teacher) and he wants to be able
to make sure everyone who watches it sit's down and listens to the
whole thing because he has a code at the end that proves the student
has watched it. Rgith now they could just advance all the way to the
end and grab the code and he would never know they didn't watch it. I
have a feeling that this can be done in powerpoint without havign to
make an application in visual basic so I thought I'd come here and ask
first.

The only requirements I have is that the user can not advance forward
in the slideshow it must do it on it's own. The users must be able to
pause it though or be able to go back. Thanks for your help i apreciate
it!
Click to expand...
 
rxero said:
A friend of mine came to me with a power point presentation and wanted
to know if I could develop a visual basic application for him that
would allow him to give someone a copy of the powerpoint viewer and his
presentation on CD and let them view the presentation. The thing is he
is giving it to his students (he is a teacher) and he wants to be able
to make sure everyone who watches it sit's down and listens to the
whole thing because he has a code at the end that proves the student
has watched it. Rgith now they could just advance all the way to the
end and grab the code and he would never know they didn't watch it. I
have a feeling that this can be done in powerpoint without havign to
make an application in visual basic so I thought I'd come here and ask
first.

The only requirements I have is that the user can not advance forward
in the slideshow it must do it on it's own. The users must be able to
pause it though or be able to go back. Thanks for your help i apreciate
it!
Click to expand...
Here comes a non-PowerPoint solution: Do a test the next day to check
whether they learned what they were intended to learn! Even if you automate
everything: the will sit down and wait - but maybe in front of the TV with a
nice cold Coke, until their teacher's stopped presenting ... ;-)

You can't force anyone! Develop faith in the students, make the presentation
interesting, etc.

Kind regards,
Ute
 
There you go using common sense. What is the world coming too?

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team


Ute Simon said:
rxero said:
A friend of mine came to me with a power point presentation and wanted
to know if I could develop a visual basic application for him that
would allow him to give someone a copy of the powerpoint viewer and his
presentation on CD and let them view the presentation. The thing is he
is giving it to his students (he is a teacher) and he wants to be able
to make sure everyone who watches it sit's down and listens to the
whole thing because he has a code at the end that proves the student
has watched it. Rgith now they could just advance all the way to the
end and grab the code and he would never know they didn't watch it. I
have a feeling that this can be done in powerpoint without havign to
make an application in visual basic so I thought I'd come here and ask
first.

The only requirements I have is that the user can not advance forward
in the slideshow it must do it on it's own. The users must be able to
pause it though or be able to go back. Thanks for your help i apreciate
it!
Click to expand...
Here comes a non-PowerPoint solution: Do a test the next day to check
whether they learned what they were intended to learn! Even if you automate
everything: the will sit down and wait - but maybe in front of the TV with a
nice cold Coke, until their teacher's stopped presenting ... ;-)

You can't force anyone! Develop faith in the students, make the presentation
interesting, etc.

Kind regards,
Ute
Click to expand...
 
Or build the test into the last several slides.

If you want to get really nasty about the whole thing, you could set-up an
array that fills with the time spent on each slide. Then, on each slide
change, check that they have spent the minimum time required on each slide
prior to the current one. If not, you could give them a nasty message and
restart the show.

You could also build a front -end that requires them to login, records the
time they started, the time spent on each slide, the answer to the test
questions, and the time they exited the show. Then export all this to an
excel table for your review.

But I like Ute's idea the best.

B

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Ute Simon said:
rxero said:
A friend of mine came to me with a power point presentation and wanted
to know if I could develop a visual basic application for him that
would allow him to give someone a copy of the powerpoint viewer and his
presentation on CD and let them view the presentation. The thing is he
is giving it to his students (he is a teacher) and he wants to be able
to make sure everyone who watches it sit's down and listens to the
whole thing because he has a code at the end that proves the student
has watched it. Rgith now they could just advance all the way to the
end and grab the code and he would never know they didn't watch it. I
have a feeling that this can be done in powerpoint without havign to
make an application in visual basic so I thought I'd come here and ask
first.

The only requirements I have is that the user can not advance forward
in the slideshow it must do it on it's own. The users must be able to
pause it though or be able to go back. Thanks for your help i apreciate
it!
Click to expand...
Here comes a non-PowerPoint solution: Do a test the next day to check
whether they learned what they were intended to learn! Even if you automate
everything: the will sit down and wait - but maybe in front of the TV with a
nice cold Coke, until their teacher's stopped presenting ... ;-)

You can't force anyone! Develop faith in the students, make the presentation
interesting, etc.

Kind regards,
Ute
Click to expand...
 
Wow you people are really creative. Well you see like it's ok if they
don't watch it they won't know what they are supposed to know win the
real world situations they will encounter. It's a legal training CD so
I hope a lawyer in study would be intelligent enough to watch something
like this. Anyhow I will relay this info to him. THanks again! :)
 
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