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You can also turn on weighting so that students who get a question wrong are more likely to get asked another question and conversely students who get questions right are less likely to be asked in future. You can set the weighting limits to whatever you like or simply turn weighting off.

To use:

Download a copy of the spreadsheet (exe file)
Save it to your area
Open the file and select the ‘Vars tab’ (at the bottom)
Enter your students names (with a weighting of 1 next to each name) in the shaded area
Switch back to the ‘Magic 8 Ball’ tab
Test it’s working by clicking the magic 8 ball and it should shake and select a student randomly
If you are using weighting when you click the ‘Correct’ button the students weighting goes down, if you click the ‘Incorrect’ button the students weighting goes up
Save the spreadsheet ready for use in the class
You need to remember to save the spreadsheet each time you close it so that the weightings are updates