A complete collection of interactive PowerPoint classroom game templates: multiple choice, card flip, spinning wheel, Monopoly, RPG and more — 13 free teaching games with step-by-step tutorials for online and in-person classes.
The scariest part of online teaching is the student on the other side of the screen quietly turning off their camera and drifting away. This series collects 13 interactive teaching activities I built with PowerPoint during my online-teaching years — from simple multiple-choice questions and card-flip games to a full Monopoly board and an RPG adventure. Every one comes with a step-by-step tutorial and a free downloadable template.
What they all have in common: you only need PowerPoint. No extra software to buy, no new tools to learn. Most of them are powered by PPT’s “trigger” feature — once you’ve learned it, you can invent your own variations.
Each activity is labelled with its best use case, so you can pick what your lesson needs: a spinning wheel or guessing game for warm-ups, multiple choice or card flips for practice, Monopoly or Snakes and Ladders for review, balloon darts or lucky punch for reward time.
Once your activities are interactive, make the slides themselves look better and run your classroom more efficiently:
This post introduces the 'Lottery's Big Adventure RPG' activity from the 10 PPT Activities for Online Teaching series — a pixel-art-style adventure game built in PowerPoint that puts course content inside a dungeon-crawling experience, giving students the feeling of clearing stages.
This post covers the Snakes and Ladders activity from the 10 PPT Activities for Online Teaching series — combining PowerPoint with myViewBoard for a team competition game that adds a luck element to make things even more exciting.
This post covers the Lucky Dip activity from the 10 PPT Activities for Online Teaching series — click an animal on the board and it punches a hole through to reveal a question or reward hidden underneath.
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