Presenter 360: Publishing a Course for LMS Distribution
If you're using a learning management system (LMS) to track e-learning content, you'll want to use the LMS publishingoption in Presenter 360. Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location Enter Additional Project Info (Optional) Adjust the Player Properties and Quality Settings Choose Reporting and Tracking Options Publish Distribute Your Published Course Step 1: Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Publish. When the Publish window appears, select the LMS tab on the left. 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. Use the Description field to give learners a synopsis of your course. 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. The 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. After publishing to your local hard drive, upload the output to your LMS for testing. Step 2 (Optional): Enter Additional Project Info Click the ellipsis button (...) next to the Title field todefine additional project information. Currently, this information is for your reference only. It won’t be visible in your published output. The Title and Description fields are the same as those on the Publish window (see the previous step). The image below the Title fieldis 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 clickPicture from Fileto choose an image on your hard drive. Enter values for Author, Email, Website, Duration, Date, Version, and Keywords if you'd like. The Identifier is a unique string of characters assigned by Presenter that your LMS uses to identify your course. If you're republishing a course that's already in your LMS, don't change the value in this field. 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. 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. 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, then drag the slider on 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. 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: Choose Reporting and Tracking Options Click the Reporting and Tracking button to open the following window, where you can choose how your LMS reports and tracks learners' progress. Select the Reporting tab on the left side of the window and choose a specification from the LMS drop-down. Ask your LMS administrator if you're not sure which spec to use. Presenter supports Tin Can API (xAPI), SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, and AICC. Complete the fields in the section called LMS Course Information and, if you're publishing for SCORM, the section called LMS Lesson SCORM Information. If you choose Tin Can API as your reporting specification, you'll see a field called Launch URL. Enter the full URL for the presentation.html file if you plan to host the content on a server that's separate from your LMS. The first Identifier is a unique string of characters assigned by Presenter that your LMS uses to identify your course. If you're republishing a course that's already in your LMS, don't change the value in this field. If you choose Tin Can API and need to change this value, avoid special characters and spaces. In the LMS Reporting section, choose the wording you want your LMS to display for learners' statuses in reports. (This section isn’t available for Tin Can API content.) Click the Tracking tab on the left side of the window and choose one of the following options: Track using number of slides viewed: Mark this option to trigger course completion when learners view a specific number of slides. Track using quiz result: Mark this option to track learners based on their quiz results. If your course has multiple quizzes, choose the one you want to track. (This option will be grayed-out if your course doesn’t have any result slides.) Click OK to save your changes. Step 5: 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. However, it’s best to upload the published course to your LMS 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 an LMS administrator for deployment. FTP This opens a window where you can enter your FTP credentials and transfer your output to a server. Zip This creates a zip version of your course files in the same location where your course was published. This is the most common choice when you publish for LMS. Upload the zipped course to your LMS. Open This opens a file viewer where you can see the files Presenter just created. There will be multiple files and folders for a published course. Tip: If your LMS requires you to identify the file that launches your course, point to index_lms.html for SCORM/AICC content or presentation.html for Tin Can API content. Step 6: Distribute Your Published Course Now that you've published your course, it's time to upload it to your LMS. The steps for this are different for each LMS. Contact your LMS administrator if you need help uploading, launching, or tracking content.52Views0likes0CommentsPresenter 360: Managing Slide Properties
You have total control over each slide in your course, including navigation, player features, presenters, and playlists. To access these properties, go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Slide Properties. When the Slide Properties window opens, change the behavior of individual slides or all of them. It's your choice. Viewing Larger Slide Thumbnail Images Changing How Slides Advance Locking the Player Controls for Some Slides Assigning Different Presenters to Different Slides Adding Playlists to Slides Adding Branched Navigation Hiding the Previous and Next Buttons Managing Player Features for Each Slide Customizing the Course Menu Viewing Larger Slide Thumbnail Images To see a larger version of a slide thumbnail, just hover over it. Changing How Slides Advance By default, slides advance automatically upon completion, but you can change it so learners control when slides advance. To change this behavior for an individual slide, do either of the following: Click the Advance hyperlink next to any slide thumbnail. It'll toggle between Auto and By user. Select the slide and click the Advance hyperlink on the right side of the window. It'll toggle between Automatically and By user. To edit multiple slides at the same time, do any of the following: All slides: Press Ctrl+A to select all the slides, then click the Advance hyperlink on the right side of the window. Consecutive slides: Select the first slide in the series, hold down your Shift key, and click the last slide in the series. Then click the Advance hyperlink on the right side of the window. Non-consecutive slides: Select the first slide, hold down your Ctrl key, and click the others. Then click the Advance hyperlink on the right side of the window. Tip: The duration of each slide is controlled by its audio, video, and animations. Slides that don't have audio, video, or animations default to the number of seconds you specified in Presenter Options. Locking the Player Controls for Some Slides There may be times when you need to lock the player controls for a slide to prevent learners from navigating away too soon. Locking a slide means learners can't advance by clicking the player controls or the slide titles in the menu. To navigate away from a locked slide, you'll need to provide one or more hyperlinks that jump to other slides in the course, or set the slide to advance automatically (see above). To lock a slide, do either of the following: Click the padlock icon next to any slide thumbnail. It'll toggle between locked and unlocked. Select the slide and click the Navigation hyperlink on the right side of the window. It'll toggle between Locked and Free. To edit multiple slides at the same time, do any of the following: All slides: Press Ctrl+A to select all the slides, then click the Navigation hyperlink on the right side of the window. Consecutive slides: Select the first slide in the series, hold down your Shift key, and click the last slide in the series. Then click the Navigation hyperlink on the right side of the window. Non-consecutive slides: Select the first slide, hold down your Ctrl key, and click the others. Then click the Navigation hyperlink on the right side of the window. Tip: To restrict navigation for an entire course, see this user guide. Assigning Different Presenters to Different Slides Feature the narrator’s photo, bio, and contact information in the sidebar of your published course. It's a great way for learners to connect with the presenter of a course. A course can feature one presenter for the entire course or different presenters for different slides. First, you'll need to add one or more presenters to your library. See Managing Presenters Bios to learn how. To display the same presenter throughout your course, simply choose that presenter when you publish. If you'd rather feature different presenters on different slides, do either of the following for each slide in the Slide Properties manager: Click the Presenter hyperlink next to any slide thumbnail. It'll reveal a drop-down list. Choose one of the presenters from your library. Choose None if you don't want to display a presenter for the selected slide. Select the slide and click the Presenter hyperlink on the right side of the window. It'll reveal a drop-down list. Choose one of the presenters from your library or choose None if you don't want to display a presenter for the selected slide. To edit multiple slides at the same time, do any of the following: All slides: Press Ctrl+A to select all the slides, click the Presenter hyperlink on the right side of the window, and choose a presenter from your library. (An even easier way to feature the same presenter throughout an entire course is to choose that presenter when you publish.) Consecutive slides: Select the first slide in the series, hold down your Shift key, and click the last slide in the series. Then click the Presenter hyperlink on the right side of the window and choose a presenter from your library. Non-consecutive slides: Select the first slide, hold down your Ctrl key, and click the others. Then click the Presenter hyperlink on the right side of the window and choose a presenter from your library. Tip: In order to feature a presenter in your course, you must enable the presenter panel in your player. See this user guide to learn how. Adding Playlists to Slides Add background music or sounds to your course. Playlists are separate from slide narration; they play in the background. They can even play continuously across multiple slides. First, you'll need to add one or more playlists to your library. See Managing Playlists to learn how. Then, assign a playlist to a slide in the Slide Properties manager. Do either of the following: Click the Playlist hyperlink next to any slide thumbnail. It'll reveal a drop-down list. Choose one of the playlists from your library. Choose None if you don't want the selected slide to have background audio. Select the slide and click the Audio Playlists hyperlink on the right side of the window. It'll reveal a drop-down list. Choose one of the playlists from your library or choose None if you don't want the selected slide to have background audio. To edit multiple slides at the same time, do any of the following: All slides: Press Ctrl+A to select all the slides, click the Audio Playlist hyperlink on the right side of the window, and choose a playlist from your library. Consecutive slides: Select the first slide in the series, hold down your Shift key, and click the last slide in the series. Then click the Audio Playlist hyperlink on the right side of the window and choose a playlist from your library. Non-consecutive slides: Select the first slide, hold down your Ctrl key, and click the others. Then click the Audio Playlist hyperlink on the right side of the window and choose a playlist from your library. Adding Branched Navigation Build non-linear scenarios with easy-to-use branching options. By default, the Prev and Next buttons on the course player jump to the previous and next slides, but you can branch to any slides in your course. Here's how: Click one of the Branching hyperlinks beside a slide thumbnail or on the right side of the window. Choose the slide to which you want to branch. If you need to switch back to the default branching behavior, choose Previous slide or Next slide at the top of the list. Hiding the Previous and Next Buttons Want to hide the previous and next buttons on your course player? Easy. You can hide one or both on a slide-by-slide basis. Do either of the following: Click the Controls hyperlink next to any slide thumbnail and uncheck one or both boxes. Select the slide and uncheck one or both navigation boxes on the right side of the window. To edit multiple slides at the same time, do any of the following: All slides: Press Ctrl+A to select all the slides, then uncheck one or both navigation boxes on the right side of the window. Consecutive slides: Select the first slide in the series, hold down your Shift key, and click the last slide in the series. Then uncheck one or both navigation boxes on the right side of the window. Non-consecutive slides: Select the first slide, hold down your Ctrl key, and click the others. Then uncheck one or both navigation boxes on the right side of the window. Tip: If you include Articulate Engage interactions in your course, the previous and next buttons for those slides will be controlled by the playback mode in Engage. In other words, the Engage settings will override the Presenter settings for showing/hiding the navigation buttons. Managing Player Features for Each Slide By default, each slide will display the features you've chosen to include in your course player, but you can show or hide the following player features on a slide-by-slide basis, too. Menu Glossary Resources Notes Seekbar Play/Pause Logo To change the player features for an individual slide, select the slide and click the On/Off selectors in the lower right corner of the window. On (default) means that the feature is enabled in the course player. Off (default) means that the feature is disabled in the course player. If you select a default option, the feature will always match the setting in the player, even if you change the player settings later. To edit multiple slides at the same time, do any of the following: All slides: Press Ctrl+A to select all the slides, then click the On/Off selectors in the lower right corner of the window. Consecutive slides: Select the first slide in the series, hold down your Shift key, and click the last slide in the series. Then click the On/Off selectors in the lower right corner of the window. Non-consecutive slides: Select the first slide, hold down your Ctrl key, and click the others. Then click the On/Off selectors in the lower right corner of the window. Tip: If you change your mind, click the Reset hyperlink beside the Features section header to revert back to your player defaults for the selected slide(s). Customizing the Course Menu To customize the menu for your course, click Edit Menu in the lower left corner of the Slide Properties window. The Player Properties window will open to the Menu editor. See this user guide for details on customizing the menu. You Might Also Want to Explore: Managing Presenter Bios Managing Playlists Choosing Player Features Customizing the Player Menu49Views0likes0CommentsPresenter 360: Tips for Managing Project Files
The following tips will help you avoid unexpected results when creating, sharing, and publishing Presenter 360 projects. Create, Edit, and Publish Projects on Your Local Hard Drive Save, Version, and Back Up Projects Frequently Send Projects to Other Developers When You Need to Collaborate Host Published Courses Online Optimize File Paths and Naming Conventions Create, Edit, and Publish Projects on Your Local Hard Drive Working with Project Files Always save and publishPresenter projects on your local hard drive (typically your C: drive). Working on a network drive or an external USB drive can cause erratic behaviordue to latency. For example, it could cause file corruption or prevent you from saving changes. You can place a copy of your project on a network drive or a USB drive for backup purposes, but avoid reopening the file until you've moved it back to your local hard drive. And before moving a Presenter project to a network drive or USB drive, create an Articulate Package, as described below. Creating an Articulate Package An Articulate Package is a zip file that contains a copy of an entire Presenter project, including the PowerPoint file, the Presenter file with audio/video resources, quiz files, and interaction files. Here's how to create an Articulate Package: In PowerPoint, go to the File tab on the PowerPoint ribbon, click Share, and choose Articulate Package. When the Articulate Presenter Package window appears, choose a package location (i.e., where you want to save it). By default, the zip file will be created in the same location where your PowerPoint file is stored, but you can change it. Just click the ellipsis (...) and browse to a different folder. Modify the optionalpackage notes, then click Create Package. When the Publish Successful window appears, you'll have an option to open the folder where the zip file was created. Click Close when you're done. Working with Course Assets Developers often keep course assets (pictures, videos, audio files, documents, etc.) on a network drive or USB drive. And in most cases, that's fine. However, if you see unusual behavior after importing an asset from a network drive or USB drive, it's possible the asset became corrupt as it transferred to your computer. If that happens, delete the asset from your course, copy the original asset to your local computer, then import it again. Here are some examples of strange behavior that can occur when an asset is corrupt: The asset is blank, distorted, or unresponsive. For example, a video refuses to play. Presenter says the file format isn't supported even though it is. The preview feature doesn't work. It loads a blank slide or doesn't load at all. Resources that you attach to your player are missing when you publish. Save, Version, and Back Up Projects Frequently Save your work often. The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+S is the fastest way to save. Do it so often that it becomes muscle memory. You’ll be glad you did. Create versions of your project during its development cycle so you can go back to earlier versions when necessary. Just create an Articulate Package, as described above, then give the resulting zip file a slightly different file name. For example, you might make a new version at the end of each workday and add the date to the file name so you can identify it. Versioning is also a good way to back up your work. Save earlier versions to the cloud, a network drive, or an external hard drive for safekeeping. (But always save the current version on your local hard drive.) Send Projects to Other Developers When You Need to Collaborate If you need to share a Presenter project with another developer, create an Articulate Package, as described above. Then share the zipped file via email, external drive, network drive, etc. Recipients should save it to their local hard drives and fully extract it before opening the project. Host Published Courses Online Viewing published courses on your local hard drive or a network drive isn't supported. Security restrictions in these environments can cause various features in your courses to fail. To avoid unexpected behavior during playback, upload your courses to a web server or LMS. The published output for aPresenter course includes multiple files and folders. For your published course to work properly, these files and folders must remain in the same organizational structure when you upload them to a server. Here's a pro tip: When you need to test a published course or share it with stakeholders, publish it to Articulate 360, then view it in Articulate Review. Optimize File Paths and Naming Conventions Be sure the file paths to your projects and published output are well under the 260-character limit imposed by Microsoft Windows. (The publishing process adds characters to the file path you selected. If it exceeds 260 characters, your published output will be incomplete.) Avoid using special characters, accents, or symbols in your file paths and file names. Learn more about naming conventions in this Microsoft article.49Views0likes0CommentsPresenter 360: Creating a New Project
Articulate Presenter 360 lets you transform PowerPoint slides into online courses. Starting a new project is as easy as creating a new PowerPoint presentation. Starting a New Presentation Changing Your Presentation Size Starting a New Presentation Launch PowerPoint and, if prompted, choose a template. Before you can work with any Presenter features, you'll need to save your new presentation. Press Ctrl+S or click Save on the Quick Access Toolbar. Browse to a location on your local hard drive, give your presentation a name, and click Save. Tip: To avoid unexpected behavior, always save presentations to your local hard drive. For more tips on managing and sharing your project files, see this user guide. Changing Your Presentation Size Presenter supports custom slide sizes, so you can choose any dimensions that work for your content. And the best time to change your presentation size is before you add any content. If you change the size after adding content, some objects may need to be resized or rearranged. To learn more about changing your presentation size, see this user guide.34Views0likes0CommentsPresenter 360: Adding an Interaction to a Slide
Use Articulate Engage to quickly add beautiful, form-based interactions to Articulate Presenter courses. You can create new interactions directly in Presenter or import existing interactions. Creating a New Interaction Importing an Existing Interaction Creating a New Interaction To create a new interaction as a slide in your course, do the following: Select the slide in your presentation that'll come just before your interaction. (You can rearrange slides at any time in PowerPoint, but the interaction will initially be inserted after the slide that's currently selected.) Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Engage Interaction. Select the Engage Interactions tab on the left side of the window that appears. Click Create New on the right side of the window. When prompted, select the type of interaction you want to create, enter a title for your interaction, and click OK. (The title will be shown in the player menu and will also be used for the interaction project file name.) When Engage launches, build your interaction the way you want. To learn more about using Engage, see these user guides. When your interaction is ready, click Save and Return to Presenter on the Engage ribbon. To adjust the properties for your interaction, see Customizing Interaction Properties. Tip: Another option for adding a new interaction to Presenter is to launch Engage, build the interaction, then publish it directly to Presenter. Importing an Existing Interaction If you already created an interaction that you want to add to your Presenter course, do the following: Select the slide in your presentation that'll come just before your interaction. (You can rearrange slides at any time in PowerPoint, but the interaction will initially be inserted after the slide that's currently selected.) Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Engage Interaction. Select the Engage Interactions tab on the left side of the window that appears. Click Add Existing on the right side of the window. Browse to the interaction file you want to import and click Open. Note: If your interaction dimensions don't match your PowerPoint dimensions, the interaction will be centered on the slide and, if necessary, scaled down to fit within the slide. Use the following properties to customize how the interaction behaves with the rest of your course: Remove: This removes the interaction from your presentation. (If you've added more than one interaction, make sure you select the right one in the list before you remove it.) Edit Interaction: This opens the interaction in Engage so you can edit it. When you finish editing, click Save and Return to Presenter on the Engage ribbon. Show in menu as: Choose whether your interaction will display as a single item in the player menu or as multiple items (one for each step in your interaction). Allow user to leave interaction: Choose whether learners will be able to jump to another slide in your course at any time or only after viewing all the steps in the interaction. Prev/Next player buttons go to: Choose whether the player buttons jump to the adjacent step in the interaction or slide in the overall course. (For this option to be available, the interaction's playback mode must be Interactive, including the option to Show previous/next buttons, and learners must be allowed to leave the interaction at any time (see previous bullet point).) When you're finished, click Close. Tip: Another option for adding an existing interaction to Presenter is to open the interaction in Engage and publish it directly to Presenter. You Might Also Want to Explore: Choosing an Interaction Size Adding an Interaction to a Player Tab Customizing Interaction Properties31Views0likes0CommentsPresenter 360: Working with the Player
In Articulate Presenter 360, the term "player" refers to the interface around the perimeter of your slides. It has several optional features, including navigation buttons, a seekbar, a clickable menu, slide notes, a glossary, and more. On laptop and desktop computers, you’ll see the full, standard player. On tablets and smartphones, you’ll see the all-new responsive playerthat adapts to the screen size and orientation of the learner’s mobile device. You can customize the player features, colors, fonts, and text labels. You can even go chromeless with an invisible player if you plan to use your own custom navigation buttons. And the same player settings affect both the standard and responsive players, so you only have to make your customizations once.(The responsive player doesn’t support sidebar videos or color/font properties. See this interactive demo for details.) Here are a few examples of how different player configurations can change the appearance of a course. To access the player settings, go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Player. To learn how to customize each component of the player, explore these user guides: Choosing Player Features Customizing the Menu Attaching Resources to the Player Adding a Glossary Displaying Notes in the Player Changing the Player Colors, Font, and Font Size Customizing the Text Labels Changing the Browser Settings and Player Size Changing the Resume Behavior Enabling Right-to-Left Language Support Enabling Keyboard Shortcuts, Seeking, and Looping Setting the Quiz Timer Format Saving and Switching Players Restricting Which Mobile Device Orientations Learners Can Use29Views0likes0CommentsPresenter 360: Publishing a Course to Review 360
Publish your course toReview 360to collect feedback from stakeholders. It’s a great way to collaborate on a project before distributing the finalized course to learners. Choose to Publish a New Item or Update an Existing Item Change the Course Thumbnail Image Adjust the Player Properties and Quality Settings Publish Distribute Your Published Course Step 1: Choose to Publish a New Item or Update an Existing Item Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Publish. When the Publish window appears, select the Review 360 tab on the left. (If youhave an Articulate 360 tab instead of Review 360,update Studio 360to see all the latest enhancements. We changed the name to Review 360 onJanuary 23, 2019.) Choose to publish a new item or update an existing item: Create a new item: Mark this option to publish a brand new content item toReview 360, then give it a title. (The title defaults to the name of your project file. Changing the title here won't affect the name of your project file.)Note that the title on the player will display up to 80 characters. Publish a new version of an existing item: Mark this option to update an existing content item located in your personal orteam folderinReview 360, then select the item you want to update. (Review 360 keeps track of version history, so you can still view previously-published versions of the content item.) Step 2 (Optional): Change the Course Thumbnail Image By default, Presenter uses an image of the first slide in your course as the thumbnail image on yourReview 360 home page, but you can choose a different image. Temporarily switch to the Web tab on the left side of the Publish window. Click the ellipsis button (...) beside the Title field to open the Project Info window. Click the hyperlinked text below the default image, then select a different slide in your course or click Picture from File to choose an image on your hard drive. Click OK to close the Project Info window. Switch back to the Review 360 tab on the left side of the Publish window to finish the publishing process. 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. 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. 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. 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. Your content gets published and uploaded to Review 360 all at once. How fast this happens depends on the size of your course and your Internet speed. When the Publish Successful window appears, click View Presentation to open Review 360 in your default web browser and manage the course you just uploaded. Step 5: Distribute Your Published Course To give viewers access to your published course: Open your web browser to yourReview 360 home page and click your course to open it. Click Share in the upper right corner. If you want to password-protect your course, mark the box to Set a password and enter a password in the field provided. Copy the shareable link, then send it to your viewers. Be sure to give them the password, too, if you added one. If you don’t want viewers to post comments on your course, click the ellipsis (...) button in the upper right corner and choose Disable comments. Note: Although share links are public, we prevent search engines from indexing our site so they won’t be searchable. However, if you post these links on a public web page, they may be indexed by a search engine. To protect confidential information, set a password or limit access to specific users. Learn more about using Review 360.22Views0likes0CommentsPresenter 360: Setting Presenter Options
Here's how to adjust default settings for publishing, previewing, and saving projects in Presenter 360. Setting Publishing Options Setting General Options Changing the Interface Language Setting Publishing Options Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Options. Select the Publish tab on the left side of the window. Set the following options: Default slide duration: This determines the duration for slides that don't have any timed elements, such as audio, video, or animations. It defaults to five seconds, but you can change it. Just enter a value in the field provided. Default animation timing: This determines the number of seconds between animations when they’re set to occur On Click. It defaults to five seconds, but you can enter a different value in the field provided. You can also override this setting by synchronizing your animations with audio. Include slide master behind interactions: Mark this box to show your PowerPoint slide master behind embedded Articulate Engage interactions to give your course a consistent design. (For this feature to work properly, you also need to make the interaction background transparent in Engage.) Click OK. Setting General Options Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Options. Select the Other tab on the left side of the window. Set the following options in the General section: Automatically save changes: Mark this box to auto-save your changes as you build your course. Presenter will automatically save changes when you click any buttons on the Articulate tab in PowerPoint. Preview range: This setting controls the second option on the Preview drop-down (Preview Next __ Slides). Three is the default preview range, but you can enter a different number in the field provided. Reset Annotations: This resets the formatting options for annotations (fill, outline, and effects) to their default settings for new annotations. Click OK. Changing the Interface Language You can localize the Presenter 360 interface in English, French, German, or Spanish. The language setting is located in the Articulate 360 app that runs in your computer’s system tray (beside the clock). See this article for details.22Views0likes0CommentsPresenter 360: Building a Course with Content Library 360 Slide Templates
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build beautiful e-learning courses quickly in Articulate Presenter 360 using professionally-designed Content Library 360 slide templates. Watch this video demonstration, then follow the activities below to practice. Practice Activities: Add Content Library 360 Slide Templates to a Course Change the Theme Colors Change the Theme Fonts Practice Activity: Add Content Library 360 Slide Templates to a Course Create a new PowerPoint file and save it on your local computer. Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Content Library 360. Use the filters on the left side of the template browser to find some slides you'd like to use in your course. Ctrl+click to select multiple slides at the same time, then click the Insert Slides button in the lower right corner to add them to your course. Easy, right? After importing slide templates into your course, you can edit them like any other slides in PowerPoint. Tip: Slide templates will automatically adjustto fit yourPowerPoint slide size. In most cases, you won't need to make any changes after importing a template, but if you're using anextreme-widescreen or portrait layout, you might need to resize some objects to fit properly. Practice Activity: Change the Theme Colors Now let's customize the slide templates we just added by changing the theme colors. Shift+click the slides you imported in the previous activity to select them all at the same time. Then go to the Design tab on the PowerPoint ribbon, click the Variants drop-down gallery, scroll to Colors, and choose a different theme. (If you're using PowerPoint 2010, go to the Design tab, click Colors, and choose a theme.) Notice that all the slides you imported automatically update with the new theme colors—even if you imported slides from different templates. Brilliant! By using your own branded theme colors, you can make any Content Library 360 template match your corporate guidelines with just a few clicks. Practice Activity: Change the Theme Fonts You can also customize Content Library 360 templates by applying your own theme fonts. Shift+click the slides you imported from the Content Library 360. Go to the Design tab on the PowerPoint ribbon, click the Variants drop-down gallery, scroll to Fonts, and choose a different theme. (If you're using PowerPoint 2010, go to the Design tab, click Fonts, and choose a theme.) Summary In this tutorial, you learned how to add Content Library 360 slide templates to a Presenter 360 course and quickly customize them by switching theme colors and fonts. In the next tutorial, you’ll record narration and synchronize animations.21Views0likes0CommentsPresenter 360: Adding a Quiz to a Slide
Use Articulate Quizmaker to add dynamic quizzes and surveys to Articulate Presenter courses. You can create new quizzes directly in Presenter or import existing quizzes. Creating a New Quiz Importing an Existing Quiz Creating a New Quiz To create a new quiz as a slide in your course, do the following: Select the slide in your presentation that'll come just before your quiz. (You can rearrange slides at any time in PowerPoint, but the quiz will initially be inserted after the slide that’s currently selected.) Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Quizmaker Quiz. Select the Quizmaker Quizzes tab in the upper left corner of the window that appears. Click Create New on the right side of the window. When prompted, enter a title for your quiz and click OK. (This title will be shown in the player menu and will also be used for the quiz project file name.) When Quizmaker launches, build your assessment the way you want. To learn more about using Quizmaker, see these user guides. When your quiz is ready, click Save and Return to Presenter on the Quizmaker ribbon. To adjust the properties for your quiz, such as what happens when learners pass or fail, see Customizing Quiz Properties. Tip: Another option for adding a new quiz to Presenter is to launch Quizmaker, build the quiz, then publish it directly to Presenter. Importing an Existing Quiz If you already created a quiz that you want to add to your Presenter course, do the following: Select the slide in your presentation that'll come just before your quiz. (You can rearrange slides at any time in PowerPoint, but the quiz will initially be inserted after the slide that's currently selected.) Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Quizmaker Quiz. Select the Quizmaker Quizzes tab in the upper left corner of the window that appears. Click Add Existing on the right side of the window. Browse to the quiz file you want to import and click Open. Note: If your quiz dimensions don't match your PowerPoint dimensions, the quiz will be centered on the slide and, if necessary, scaled down to fit within the slide. Use the following properties to customize how the quiz interacts with the rest of your course: Remove: This removes the quiz from your presentation. (If you've added more than one quiz, make sure you select the right one in the list before you remove it.) Edit quiz in Articulate Quizmaker: This opens the quiz in Quizmaker so you can edit it. When you finish editing, click Save and Return to Presenter on the Quizmaker ribbon. When user passes: Choose what happens when learners pass the quiz. You can close the window, go to a URL, or jump to a specific slide in the course. When user fails: Choose what happens when learners fail the quiz. You can close the window, go to a URL, or jump to a specific slide in the course. Allow user to leave quiz: Decide when learners are allowed to skip ahead or jump back to another slide in the course—at any time or only after they've completed the quiz (whether they pass or fail). User may view slides after quiz: Decide when learners are allowed to view slides that come after the quiz in your course—at any time, after they at least attempt the quiz, or only after they actually pass the quiz. Show in menu as: Choose whether your quiz will display as a single item in the player menu or as multiple items (one for each slide in your quiz). When you're finished, click Close. Tip: Another option for adding an existing quiz to Presenter is to open the quiz in Quizmaker and publish it directly to Presenter. You Might Also Want to Explore: Choosing a Quiz Size Adding a Quiz to a Player Tab Customizing Quiz Properties Setting the Quiz Timer Format20Views0likes0Comments