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Creating question slides using PowerPoint Polling on a Mac

The PowerPoint Polling tool allows you to create polling questions within a PowerPoint

presentation easily.

On a Mac, you will see a TurningPoint toolbar. This toolbar is not embedded within

PowerPoint ribbon.

Building your question slides

1. Open TurningPoint 8 and sign in with your McGill username and password.

2. From the TurningPoint dashboard, under Participants section, select Auto and

under the Content section, select None.

3. Click PowerPoint Polling. PowerPoint opens with the TurningPoint 8 toolbar.

4. Open a new or existing PowerPoint presentation.


5. Click New from the TurningPoint 8 ribbon and select a question type. In this example, we will choose a Multiple Choice question.

6. Type the question and up to 10 possible answer choices.


7. Repeat step 5 and select a different type of questions as many times as needed to create the PowerPoint Polling presentation.

8. Once you are done, save your presentation:

a. Click File

b. Click Save As and save your PowerPoint presentation to the location you typically save your files.

9. Close PowerPoint. The TurningPoint 8 Dashboard opens.

If a slide is copied and pasted, it is necessary to Refresh icon. The Refresh icon

must be clicked anytime an edit is made to a slide.

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Setting the correct answers and adding objects

Setting the correct answers

1. In the Slide Preferences Pane, click to expand Scoring Options.

2. Select the correct answer from the drop-down menu.

Setting a correct answer automatically sets all other answer choices to incorrect.


Adding correct answer indicator

Add a Correct Answer Indicator to give participants a visual confirmation of the correct

answer after polling has closed.

1. Click the Objects icon from the TurningPoint 8 toolbar.

2. Mouse over Correct Answer Indicator and select the indicator of your choice.


Adding countdown timer

A countdown timer provides participants with a visual cue that polling is about to close as

it counts down to zero. When the countdown expires, the countdown timer disappears, and

polling is automatically closed.

1. Select the polling slide.

2. From the TurningPoint 8 toolbar click the objects icon , mouse over Countdown

and select the desired countdown timer.

There are five types available.

3. To adjust the time, click the Countdown Timer image and change the number on

the slide.

To change the current countdown on the slide, select a different countdown

from the Objects menu.

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Chart/ changing chart type

A chart displays the results of participant responses.

1. Select the polling slide.

2. From the TurningPoint 8 ribbon click the object's icon , mouse over Charts and

select the desired chart.

There are four chart types available.

To change the current chart on the slide, select a different chart from the Objects

menu.

To insert a Graph chart or to change the current chart on the slide to a Graph

chart, uncheck Use Excel from the Objects menu. Click Objects Icon, mouse over

Charts and select the desired chart.

The colors of Graph charts can be edited from the Slide Preference Pane. The

colors of Excel charts can be edited from PowerPoint Chart Tools.

To remove the chart, simply delete the object from the slide.

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