Creating Your Own PowerPoint Jeopardy Game Playing jeopardy is a wonderful way to review vocabulary. Creating a game board using PowerPoint is relatively easy and makes the activity even more exciting and professional. Below you will find the instructions on how to design your own jeopardy board. Before we begin, a few tips: HELPFUL TIPS: Save your file in your CBA folder as CBA Jeopardy 1 # where the # is a number I have given you. This way no one will know who created the file they are playing. If you have time to make a Double Jeopardy (with double amounts on the game board slide), save it in your CBA folder as CBA Jeopardy 2 #. When your game is complete, ask me where to save it so others can play it. Create a template so that you do not have to recreate the game each time. Use the vocabulary terms found in the CBA frameworks. If you are making a challenging Jeopardy (or Double Jeopardy), pick more difficult terms. Be sure to match the difficulty of the term to the dollar amount. Set your font sizes, background colors, and other slide preferences for ALL of your slides by going to: View Master Slide Master. NOTE: Anything placed on the master page CANNOT be hyperlinked or changed in the slide show. Highlight an object or text and use CTL + K as a shortcut for setting a hyperlink. After you have created an answer slide, Use Edit Select All Copy (CTL + C) and paste the material into new slides to edit (or copy the entire slide and make changes to it). This will speed up your board creation. CHECK YOUR WORK. A missed hyperlink will interrupt your game. Requirements: 1. Opening slide 2. Game board slide 3. 1 question and 1 answer for each category and amount (30 total) 4. Hyperlink from each amount to the slide containing that question 5. Button on each question slide to the answer slide 6. Button on each answer slide to the Score Card slide 7. Button on Score Card slide to game board slide
Steps to Create your Own Jeopardy Game Step One: Choose an appropriate color and fonts for your Jeopardy game and set it using the Background setting or a Design Theme. (Reminder You can set your colors, fonts, etc. in the Slide Master for ALL slides.) Then create a Title Slide for the game, listing the title of the game (Jeopardy) and the subject (CBA). For added interest, find an appropriate sound effect. DO NOT add it anywhere except the title slide. Make it play automatically, but only once. The second slide should be the game board. Insert a table with 6 columns and 6 rows. The top row will be used for your categories. Using your cursor, pull the table to fill the screen. Adjust the height of the top row to best fit your category names (the unit names from the frameworks). The other rows will adjust automatically. Step Two: Give each column a category name using an appropriate font and color Highlight all of the columns and rows and center the text. Place a number in each box like the example below.
Step Three: Insert New Title Slide as slide 3. Type in a question like the example below. Since you may be creating more than one Jeopardy game, you can use placeholder text as in the example, then save this file as a template to be used when creating your games with actual content. Go back to slide 2, the game board. Highlight the appropriate point value and then go to Insert Hyperlink. You need to use Place in this Document on the hyperlink dialog box to select the question slide you wish this link to go to. You have now successfully created a link for your jeopardy game. Step Four: Insert a new Title Slide after the question slide as an answer slide. This slide should have the answer to the question on the previous slide. (Every question slide needs an answer slide.) You may want to prompt your players to answer in the correct format by putting the answer in the form of a question, such as What is bold? rather than just Bold. Step Five: Important: You need to insert a shape or action button on the question slide that will take the player to the answer slide. It is important that you do this on each question slide and then hyperlink it to the answer slide for that question. You want the game to limit the player to certain areas of the slide to click on so they don t accidentally go to the wrong slide. Each question should have a button that takes them only to the answer for that question.
IMPORTANT: You also need to set the Advance Slide On Mouse Click to off on each slide so that it doesn t advance when the player clicks the mouse anywhere else on the slide. You only want the hyperlinked shapes or buttons to work and you want to specify where each click takes the player. You will also need to draw a box or insert a button on the answer slide and link it to the Score Card slide, which will be the very last slide. (Actually, since you are disabling the Advance on Mouse Click option, this slide can go anywhere you want it.) It is important that you do this on each answer slide and then hyperlink the button to the score board. The Score Card slide should have a button that hyperlinks to the game board slide. Step Six: Repeat these steps for the entire Jeopardy board. You will need to make question slides for every point value for every column. (Total of 30 question slides 6 for each point value and 30 answer slides to go with each question slide.) HINT: Create a Generic answer slide that you can copy and paste. After you have completed the board, run it as a slide show and make sure that all hyperlinks are working. (HINT: Make your first question slide and your first answer slide and set the hyperlinks or at least insert the buttons or shapes, then copy those two slides. Then all you have to customize are the text and links on each slide.) It is helpful to have the category and amount on both the question slide and the answer slide to help you keep track. During game play, the pen (pointer options) can be used to write on the score card to keep track of who is winning. These annotations should be discarded (after a screen capture) when the game is over. Make sure that you save your work every day to your CBA folder so that you will not have to start over. Here are some screen shots that might help you visualize what you are creating: