How to make a bell.mp3 ring when I want it to

[Truman]

I am creating an instructional ppt for my students. I want to have a bell ring to signal my student when I want my him/her to pause the slideshow, switch to an open document, do the instruction and then return to the slideshow and continue to the next instruction. I know how to embed the mp3 but I don't know how to make it sound when I hit the space bar to give the signal. Any ideas?

[JohnWilson]

Click the ANIMATION tab and choose "Animation pane"

Double click on the animation for play sound

In the dialog that opens click TIMING and "Animate as part of click sequence"

Make sure start says "On Click"

Test!

[Truman]

Unfortunately that would not work in this case as its not me showing a presentation. The student is on his/her own laptop either in my computer lab or at home and needs to ring the bell sound when the next click happens. Like this:

Screen appears with an example of the page that's being worked on.
With the page, comes an instruction for the student to complete in the other word processor that they are working with but they need to know when to switch to the other live program to do the operation so upon the next click of the mouse the bell sounds giving them that signal.

I'm not ringing the bell, they are.

Any ideas on how to get the bell to ring when the student clicks the mouse on their own computer?

Thanks