Presenter 360: Publishing a Course for Web Distribution

When you want learners to access a Presenter 360 course over the internet or a private intranet, and if you don’t need to track their progress, then web publishing is for you. (If you do need to track learners' results, publish for LMS.)

1. Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location
2. Enter Additional Project Info (Optional)
3. Adjust the Player Properties and Quality Settings
4. Publish
5. Distribute Your Published Course

Step 1: Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location

1. Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Publish.
2. When the Publish window appears, select the Web tab on the left.
   
   
3. Enter the Title the way you want it to appear in your published output. It defaults to the name of your project file. (Changing the title won't affect the name of your project file.) The maximum length for a project title is 80 characters.
4. Use the Description field to give learners a synopsis of your course. 
5. Use the Folder field to indicate where you want to publish your course—for example, your computer desktop. Click the ellipsis button (...) to browse to a location. Presenter will create a new folder in that spot with all the files needed to operate your course.
   
   Important: Always publish to your local hard drive. Publishing to a network drive or a USB drive can cause problems with your published output due to latency. After publishing to your local hard drive, upload the output to a web server for testing and deployment.

Step 2 (Optional): Enter Additional Project Info

Click the ellipsis button (...) next to the Title field to define additional project information. Currently, this information is for your reference only. It won’t be visible in your published output.

1. The Title and Description fields are the same as those on the Publish window (see the previous step).
2. The image below the Title field is the course thumbnail. By default, Presenter uses an image of the first slide in your course, but you can choose a different image. Just click the hyperlinked text below the image, then select a different slide or click Picture from File to choose an image on your hard drive.
3. Enter values for Author, Email, Website, Duration, Date, Version, and Keywords if you'd like.
4. The Identifier applies only to content published for LMS.

When you're finished customizing the project information, click OK to return to the Publish window.

Step 3: Adjust the Player Properties and Quality Settings

Use the Properties section of the Publish window to make last-minute changes to your player, adjust the quality settings, and assign a presenter bio to your course.

1. The Player property shows the name of the player currently assigned to your project. (The player is the interface learners see around the perimeter of your slide content.) To make adjustments to your player, click the player name to open the player editor.
2. The Quality property lets you control the compression settings for audio clips, videos, and pictures in your course. The quality settings default to whatever you used the last time you published a course. To change them, click Quality, make your adjustments, and click OK.
   • Choose Standard if you want to use the default settings: optimal video quality of 5, audio bitrate of 56 kbps, and image quality of 80%.
   • Choose Custom if you want to define your own quality settings. Drag the slider for any of the three values to change the compression. Higher values give you higher-quality output but also larger file sizes (which means longer download times). Lower values give you smaller file sizes and faster download times, but the visual and audio quality will be lower as well.
     
     Tip: Image compression only applies to JPG files.
   • Mark the Optimize Audio Volume box to normalize audio throughout your course for consistent volume across content slides, interactions, and quizzes.
     
     Tip: If your course audio already has consistent volume, you can speed up the publishing process by unchecking this option.
3. The Presenter drop-down lets you choose a presenter bio for the course. The presenter bio will appear in the sidebar of your published course. Click the ellipsis (...) button if you need to manage your library of presenter bios. (In order for the presenter bio to display in your published course, you'll need to enable the presenter panel in your player. Click here to learn how.)

Step 4: Publish

When you're finished making selections, click the Publish button. When the publishing process is complete, you’ll see the Publish Successful window with several follow-up options.

View Presentation	This launches the published course in your default web browser. Important: Since your files have been prepared for web delivery, you might encounter unexpected behavior when viewing the course on your local hard drive. It’s best to upload your published output to a web server for proper testing.
Email	This opens a new email message with a zip file of your published course attached. This option is helpful if you need to send your course to a web server administrator for deployment. We don’t recommend emailing a published course to learners. Security restrictions on their computers will prevent some features in your course from working properly. Upload the course to a web server instead, then give learners a link to the presentation.html file.
FTP	This opens a window where you can enter your FTP credentials and transfer your output to a web server.
Zip	This creates a zip version of your course files in the same location where your course was published.
Open	This opens a file viewer where you can see the files Presenter just created. After you move the files to a web server, send learners a link to the presentation.html file, which is the file that launches your course.

Step 5: Distribute Your Published Course

Now that you've published your course, it's time to upload it to a server and give it a test run. Then send learners a link to the presentation.html file.