Log in and open the course that you would like to add a PowerPoint to in the authoring tool.
Click on the "Add Page" button.
From the Categories, click on Power Point.
Click on the "PowerPoint Slide" icon to select it, then click on "Add Selected Page" at the bottom right.
You will see that the PowerPoint Slide page has been added to your course. You will now fill out the setting steps.
Step 1: Title
Title: Type in a title for the slide. (This will get replaced when you add your PowerPoint Slides to your course, so you may want to come back to this step after uploading your slides).
Step 2: PowerPoint Slide (Flash SWF)
Click on the folder icon to access your media manager.
If you have uploaded any PowerPoint presentations previously, they will appear here in the media manager. Here are examples of PowerPoint presentations that I have uploaded to my media manager in the past:
If you are uploading a PowerPoint presentation for the first time, click on the "Upload new PowerPoint" button at the top of the media manager. You can upload PowerPoints with .ppt or .pptx extensions.
Click on "Browse for Media" to look for your PowerPoint presentation on your computer.
After you locate the PowerPoint, click on it to select it, then click on "Open."
You should now see your PowerPoint presentation listed on the upload screen.
Now click on the "Upload Files" button. Your PowerPoint presentation is now being converted for use in eLearning Studio.
Locate your PowerPoint presentation in your media manager (either by doing a search, or clicking through the pages and locating the presentation alphabetically).
When you hover over the powerpoint, you will see the following options appear: Add all slides, open, edit tags, delete. If you know you want to incorporate ALL the slides in the PowerPoint in your course, click on the "Add all slides" button.
If you plan on using only one slide from your PowerPoint presentation, click on the PowerPoint presentation icon (or the "open" button) to open the presentation. You are now viewing each of the slides in the presentation:
Click on the slide you would like to add to select it, then click on the "Insert Selected" button to add it to your course.
Now that you are back in the authoring tool, you will see that your PowerPoint presentation/slide has been added to the page and also appears in the table of contents.
View from the Table of Contents:
Each slide from your PowerPoint presentation has it's own page in the course. By default, the page has been given the title of the PowerPoint, however, at this point, you can click on each page in the table of contents and change the title if you wish.
Don't Forget!
If you have specific settings you wish to indicate in "Step 4: Advanced," make sure you go back and fill them in.
If this is a flash and mobile course, make sure you go into each slide page and fill out "Step 5: Alternate Mobile Content." Learners that access this course from a mobile device will not be able to view the PowerPoint presentation, so you will need to provide alternate material that covers the same information. A good option is to upload the same PowerPoint presentation as JPGs and use those in place of the converted presentation. For more information on how to do that, read this post.
You are finished! You can now save, clear your cache, and preview your course to see the how the PowerPoint presentation will appear to your learners.
More Information
You can learn more about PowerPoint pages in our wiki.
You can also refer to this post to learn more about using audio in your PowerPoint:
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