KlickerUZH v3.0: Integration with Microsoft PowerPoint

Integrating a classroom interaction tool like the KlickerUZH with a presentation tool like Microsoft PowerPoint enables lecturers to control everything related to their lecture from a consistent place. We are planning to develop an add-on for PowerPoint that allows users to start and execute a prepared KlickerUZH session (e.g., switch to the next block) and to display the evaluation results within PowerPoint (e.g., embedded on a slide).

This will address the following roadmap item:

Have you used classroom interaction tools with PowerPoint integration before (e.g., Sli.do)? What are your experiences and needs in this regard?

This post is part of a series on our new KlickerUZH v3.0 concept. See KlickerUZH v3.0: Release Information for more information on the overall concept.

The PowerPoint Add-in allows you to:

  • Start and control sessions (i.e., activate next block) from within an integrated sidebar
  • Embed the evaluation view of questions directly on slides (e.g., question 1 on slide 3, etc.)
  • Embed the leaderboard of a specific session on slides
  • Embedded evaluations display the results in real-time, also while in presentation mode

To use the PowerPoint Add-in, you will need to create questions and session within the browser version of the KlickerUZH v3.0 and can then log in to your account within the PowerPoint sidebar. Only session control and evaluation can be performed from within the Add-in.

We are currently working on publishing the Add-in in the internal catalog of the University of Zurich. We are also still investigating the possibilities of publishing the Add-in for users outside our home organization (i.e., not @uzh.ch).

If you have any specific requests that you do not see within our current implementation, please let us know.

The first part of the Add-in (KlickerUZH Evaluation) has been published for all employees of UZH and should be available from the start of next week (20.11.23).

KlickerUZH Evaluation allows you to:

  • Embed the evaluation view of questions directly on slides (e.g., question 1 on slide 3, etc.)
  • Embed the leaderboard of a specific session on slides
  • Embedded evaluations display the results in real-time, also while in presentation mode

The publication of KlickerUZH Control (the sidebar for quiz control) is still in progress and will be communicated separately.

A warm thank you to our central IT department / Microsoft Services (https://www.zi.uzh.ch) for their support with the publication :confetti_ball: