HOW-TO
How to Add a Quiz to PowerPoint (Live and Scored)
The simplest way to add a live, scored quiz to a PowerPoint deck — and let the room answer from their phones.
By The Deckly Team6 min read
PowerPoint is great for slides but was never designed to collect live answers from a room. You can fake a quiz with animations and click-triggers, but nothing gets recorded and only one person can 'answer' at the front.
Here is how to add a real, live, scored quiz to a PowerPoint deck — one where everyone answers from their own phone and you see the results instantly.
The manual way (and why it falls short)
The built-in approach is to make each answer a clickable shape with animations that reveal 'correct' or 'incorrect'. It looks fine in rehearsal, but it does not scale to an audience: nobody's answer is captured, you cannot see a distribution, and there is no report afterwards.
For anything beyond a single demo click, you need the audience to respond on their own devices.
The live way, step by step
Here is the fastest route to a quiz the whole room can answer.
- Upload your existing PowerPoint (or PDF) to Deckly — your slides stay exactly as they are.
- Find the point in the deck where you want to check understanding.
- Insert a quiz activity: multiple choice for one answer, multi-select for several, and mark the correct option(s).
- Present as normal. When you reach the quiz slide, a join code appears.
- The audience enters the code in their browser and answers on their phones.
- Watch responses arrive live, reveal the distribution, and discuss before moving on.
Making it scored
Mark the correct answer when you build the question and Deckly scores responses automatically. Add several scored questions and you can show a leaderboard, which works well for training days and events.
Because scoring is captured, you also get a report you can review afterwards rather than relying on memory.
Tips for a smooth quiz
A few small choices make a live quiz feel effortless.
- Keep questions short enough to read on a phone at a glance.
- Put quizzes at natural pause points, right after a key concept.
- Show the join code early so latecomers can still take part.
- Do something with every result — reteach, discuss, or decide.
Key takeaways
- PowerPoint's built-in animation 'quiz' captures nothing and doesn't scale to an audience.
- Upload your deck, insert a quiz activity, and let people answer from their browsers.
- Mark correct answers to score automatically and enable a leaderboard.
- Every scored session produces a report you can review later.
Frequently asked questions
Can I add a quiz to PowerPoint without rebuilding my slides?
Yes. Upload your existing PowerPoint to Deckly and insert quiz activities between the slides you already have. Your original design is untouched.
Can the quiz score answers automatically?
Yes. Mark the correct option when you build the question and responses are scored automatically, which also lets you show a leaderboard across several questions.
How do participants answer the quiz?
They enter the session code shown on the quiz slide into any modern browser and submit their answer from their own device — no app or account required.