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Make your PowerPoint presentations interactive

by Willem Karssenberg
Posted on 05 February, 2010

Mouse Mischief is a tool that Microsoft makes available free of charge, and that allows teachers to work with Microsoft Office PowerPoint to make interactive presentations. With Mouse Mischief, teachers can add multiple choice questions to their presentations, and large groups of students can answer the questions using mice connected to the teachers PC.

Mouse Mischief not only gives students the ability to engage, have fun, and learn in new, interactive ways, but it also provides teachers with a more affordable alternative to purchasing expensive student response systems, commonly known as clickers, by letting students use affordable wired or wireless USB mice that their school already own.

You can find more info and the download at:
http://www.microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/

I've tried it myself and it's really fun!
My findings (in Dutch) on my weblog:
http://www.trendmatcher.nl/2010/01/microsoft-mouse-mischief.html
You can translate with Google translate?

Tags: interactive, mouse, mice, poll, vote

by richa singh posted on 07 February, 2010

Wow! I had no idea about this. I am installing the program now and check it out. Will post my findings here.

by Willem Karssenberg posted on 26 February, 2010

I've bought a 10 ports usb hub with adapter. To that I could add 5 more usb hubs with 4 ports each. That way I can connect up to 25 mice!

by Willem Karssenberg posted on 27 February, 2010

@Pat,

It's not possible to connect other computers (wireless or not) to the computer running Mouse Mischief.
The whole idea is that it is meant for countries / situations where there is not enough budget for a computer per pupil.
Mouse Mischief enables more children to work together using just one computer and some extra mice...

by Richard D. Solomon PhD posted on 07 February, 2010

Unfortunately, Microsoft Mouse Mischief is only for the PC. Does anyone know of a similar product for the Mac?

by Powerpoint Info posted on 06 February, 2010

@Willem Karssenberg thank you for the tip. Mouse Mischief seems to be a great tool. Most of the PowerPoint users have been making use of features like action buttons, triggers and motion path animations to create such interactive slideshows.

by Shivali Gupta posted on 24 February, 2010

Hi, thanks for the information . I like making powerpoint presentations but seriously had no idea about this tool. I will definitely try this out in my next presentation.

by David Cox posted on 26 February, 2010

How would one go about connecting wired mice to the teacher's computer?

by David Cox posted on 27 February, 2010

Thanks for the info, William. I think I can go with it from here.

by Cassandra posted on 09 February, 2010

Hi Willem. Great information on the Mouse Mischief feature. Thank you for sharing with the community. If you are interested in staying on top of cool PowerPoint features, be sure to follow www.twitter.com/office and the Office [Word, PowerPoint, etc.] page on Facebook, www.facebook.com/office. I am sure the folks over in the Office communities would appreciate your expertise!

Cheers,
Cassandra
MSFT Office Outreach Team

by Pat Bullman posted on 26 February, 2010

My students have their own wireless laptops. Can they just use their own equipment with this program? Do I need to have them download a program to interact with my computer and this Mouse Mischief enabled ppt ? I haven't downloaded the program yet because I really wasn't sure how to adapt it to the wireless PC's my kids have?

by Pat Bullman posted on 27 February, 2010

Thanks.

by Partha Bhattacharya posted on 26 February, 2010

Great info' Willem. Thanks for sharing.

Partha Bhattacharya
http://www.2webvideo.com

by Kerry Adams posted on 11 March, 2010

Thanks Willem, Great information and feature.

by Dionne Winter posted on 26 August, 2011

Mouse Mischief, sounds great. So you are saying you can use any normal wireless (my choice over wires) mouse and download free software with power point 2007 or 2010 also? No other software to download to purchase required?

While you can do similar with Camtasia Screencapture software (ALSO FOR MAC) , Camtasia comes at a cost and higher learning curve. It also offers many more features. Anyway back to mouse mischief, for classroom, or audience interactivity during power point does not seem you can beat that.
~Thanks, Dionne