Re-use existing presentations for classrooms: manual advancements

Feb 11, 2015

Hi all

we have a set of elearning presentations, with a pretty high use of triggers, timeline events, and recorded audio comments.

We would like to re-use those courses for classroom sessions with a teacher. The idea would be to re-use all the graphical material, but disable all the timeline events to make them manual. Basically, turn our presentations to pure Powerpoint-like.

Is there an easy way (ideally, a magic option) to disable the timeline and handle animations manually (ie, on click) ? Considering the amount of courses we have, reworking them to clean up the timeline and set manual triggers everywhere is not an option..

Thanks!

7 Replies
Cédric Mallet

Hi Wendy

thank you for your response. This will prevent the slide from advancing to the next one, but what I need is to disable any automatic event inside the slides. 

For instance, in a slide with a background displayed from the beginning, something X appearing at a given time, then something Y later, I would like to have X and Y appearing when the teacher clicks, regardless of the timing.

I don't think this is something I can do. I have seen threads mentioning using an extra layer with the "pause timeline on the base layer" option, but this does not solve my problem: I want to handle all the events manually, not wait for them to happen.

Julie Stelter

Hi Cedric,

This is a relevant questions for me as well. My question is less technical and more about design. I have a client who wants to take 4 lengthy asynchronous courses and use them like a PowerPoint in a classroom. I'm a bit of a purist so I don't like the idea (not yet expressed to the client). Since the course was designed to be read and/or listened to, it's not appropriate for a lecture format.

So our current strategy is to use the course as a flipped learning opportunity. The student would take the course, or parts of it, as homework and then attend a discussion and activity session in place of the lecture. The instructor then has the responsibility to take the course content to the next level of application and analysis. The student has the responsibility to learn the content and be ready to dive deeper in the classroom.

I think this will work in my situation. Would it work for yours?

Cheers, Julie

 

Cédric Mallet

Hi Julie

this is an interesting approach, resolving a technical issue with an adapted educational method.

Unfortunately this is not something we can do: our courses are technical trainings with pictures, diagrams and schematics, many of which are interactive. The base idea was just to benefit from this material "out of the box" instead of building Powerpoint presentations that would use the same images. We also have some slides with many triggers illustrating the way the systems work.

I'll keep the idea for the future !

Crystal Horn

Hi there, Oggie!  Do you have certain items on the slide that you want to reveal when the user clicks something?  Emily mentions one way of handling this scenario, by starting out with those objects in the Hidden state.  Then, when the user clicks something on the slide, the state changes to Normal on one or more objects.

If you can share what you've got so far, we're happy to have a look!  Just attach your .story file in this discussion.

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