Presenter 360: Adding Content Library 360 Icons
Content Library 360 has 22+ million high-resolution photos, illustrations, icons, and videos. You can access them right from PowerPoint, and they’re all available to use in your presentation without additional charge. In this article, you’ll learn how to add eye-catching icons to your Presenter 360 courses. You can even customize icons with your own colors and effects. Adding Icons to Your Course Customizing Icons Adding Icons to Your Course Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Icons. Type a search term in the field at the top of the media browser and press Enter. (Tip: The browser remembers your last search term during the current session.) Zoom in and out by using the zoom slider in the lower left corner or by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and scrolling your mouse wheel. If you want to find a different kind of media after opening the browser, use the drop-down list in the upper right corner to switch between Photos, Illustrations, and Icons. Select the icon you want to use and click Insert to add it your slide. You can select multiple icons at the same time using Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click, then insert them all at once. Customizing Icons After adding an icon into your course, you can customize its colors to match your course design. Just select the icon on the slide, go to the Format tab on the ribbon, and use the style galleries to edit the fill color, outline color, and effects. For example, here’s the same icon with different styles. And if an icon is composed of more than one shape, you can ungroup it and format each shape individually. Here’s how to ungroup an icon in PowerPoint: Right-click the icon, scroll to Group, and click Ungroup. When PowerPoint asks if you want to convert the picture to a Microsoft Office drawing, click Yes. Right-click the icon again. If the Group option is grayed out, it means the icon is a single object. If the Group option is active, scroll to it and then select Ungroup to see all the components that make up the icon. Here’s an example of an ungrouped icon. Below is the original icon with no formatting on the left. The same icon in the middle has been recolored all at once (without ungrouping it). And the same icon again, but this time ungrouped, with specific formatting for each component is on the right.Presenter 360: Adding Content Library 360 Illustrations
Illustrate your points with images from Content Library 360. Find the perfect pictures for your courses from 22+ million Content Library 360 assets that you can access right from PowerPoint. All assets are available to use in your presentation for no additional charge. In this article, you’ll learn how to add beautiful Content Library 360 illustrations to your Presenter 360 courses. Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Illustrations. Type a search term in the field at the top of the media browser and press Enter. (Tip: The browser remembers your last search term during the current session.) Zoom in and out by using the zoom slider in the lower left corner or by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and scrolling your mouse wheel. If you want to find a different kind of media after opening the browser, use the drop-down list in the upper right corner to switch between Photos, Illustrations, and Icons. Select the illustration you want to use and click Insert to add it your slide. You can select multiple illustrations at the same time using Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click, then insert them all at once.Presenter 360: Adding Content Library 360 Photos
Find the perfect media assets for your courses. Choose from 22+ million Content Library 360 photos, illustrations, icons, and videos that you can access right from Presenter 360. All assets are available to use in your presentation for no additional charge. In this article, you’ll learn how to add gorgeous Content Library 360 photos to your courses. Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Photos. Type a search term in the field at the top of the media browser and press Enter. (Tip: The browser remembers your last search term during the current session.) Zoom in and out by using the zoom slider in the lower left corner or by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and scrolling your mouse wheel. If you want to find a different kind of media after opening the browser, use the drop-down list in the upper right corner to switch between Photos, Illustrations, and Icons. Select the photo you want to use and click Insert to add it your slide. You can select multiple photos at the same time using Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click, and then insert them all at once.Presenter 360: Adding Content Library 360 Videos
Content Library 360 has 22+ million high-resolution photos, illustrations, icons, and videos that you can access right from PowerPoint. All assets are available to use in your presentation for no additional charge. In this article, you’ll learn how to add Content Library 360 videos to slides in your Presenter 360 courses. Note: Content Library 360 videos can be added to slides but not to the player sidebar. Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Videos in the Content Library 360 group. Type a search term in the field at the top of the media browser and press Enter. (Tip: The browser remembers your last search term during the current session.) Zoom in and out by using the zoom slider in the lower left corner or by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and scrolling your mouse wheel. To preview a video before you add it to your course, click the Preview button that appears when your mouse hovers over a video thumbnail. Select the video you want to use and click Insert to add it your slide. When the video properties window appears, make your selections, as described below, and click OK. Property Description Show video Decide whether you want the video to display on the slide or in a separate browser window. Play video Choose to play the video automatically or only when learners click it. Show video controls Mark this box to add player controls to the video so learners can play, pause, rewind, and fast-forward. Start video ___ seconds into slide Decide when you want the video to play. By default, it'll play as soon as learners reach the slide. If you'd prefer to wait a certain number of seconds before playing the video, enter a number in the field provided. Do not compress video at publish Mark this box if you don’t want the video to be compressed in your published course. Video quality may be higher, but the published output will also be larger. Uncheck the box to compress the video in your published course. It’ll be optimized for web playback, resulting in smaller file sizes. This is especially helpful for learners with slow internet connections. This property is available for MP4 videos created with baseline, main, or high profiles. If it’s grayed out, it means the video is another file type or profile, in which case the video will be compressed in your published course. Alternate text Enter a brief description of the video. Screen readers will read the description to your learners. Download our free accessibility e-book for tips on writing good alt text.Presenter 360: Previewing and Publishing a Course
You can preview how your course will look and behave on different devices and orientations with Presenter 360’s new responsive preview options. And you can publish courses to HTML5 for a variety of platforms, including web servers and learning management systems. Watch this video introduction to learn how, then follow the activities below to practice. Practice Activities: Preview Your Course Choose a Publish Option Adjust the Publish Settings Publish and Distribute Your Course Practice Activity: Preview Your Course Presenter 360 uses responsive preview to show you how your course will look and behave on any device and orientation just by clicking a button. Open the PowerPoint folder in your practice files, then open the Presenter_Practice1.pptx file in PowerPoint. Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Preview. (This previews just the selected slide. Use the Preview drop-down arrow to preview a range of slides.) Then click each device icon in the upper right corner of the preview window to see how your slide looks and behaves on each device and orientation. Click Close Preview when you’re done. To learn more about responsive preview, see this user guide. To learn more about restricting which device orientations learners can use when viewing your course, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Choose a Publish Option Presenter 360 supports several publish options, described below. For this tutorial, let’s publish to Review 360 where you can collaborate with stakeholders and subject matter experts. Open the PowerPoint folder in your practice files, then open the Presenter_Practice1.pptx file in PowerPoint. Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Publish to launch the publishing wizard. Click the Review 360 tab on the left side of the window. Before we continue, here’s some quick info on each publish option: Review 360 Publish courses to Review 360 to test how they look on various devices and to collect feedback from stakeholders with an easy-to-use web interface. To learn more about publishing courses to Review 360, see this user guide. Web If you want learners to access courses over the internet or a private intranet, and if you don’t need to track their progress, then publish for web distribution. To learn more about publishing courses for web servers, see this user guide. Articulate Online Articulate Online is our hosted tracking and reporting system for e-learning content. Publish courses to Articulate Online when you need an efficient, cost-effective way to track learners’ progress and results. To learn more about publishing courses to Articulate Online, see this user guide. LMS Choose the LMS publish option if you're using a learning management system (LMS) to track learners' progress and results. To learn more about publishing courses for AICC, SCORM, and Tin Can API LMSs, see this user guide. CD Choose the CD publish option when you need to distribute courses via CD, DVD, USB drive, network drive, kiosk, or email. To learn more about publishing courses for CD or other local media, see this user guide. Word Publish for Microsoft Word when you need a printable version of your course. It’s a convenient way to distribute handouts or provide a transcript for accessibility purposes. To learn more about publishing courses to Microsoft Word, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Adjust the Publish Settings After choosing a publish option, adjust the settings, such as title, description, publish location, quality, tracking options, and LMS specification. For details, see the user guide for each publish option listed above. Since we’re publishing for Review 360 in this tutorial, configure these settings: Select Create a new item and enter a title for your course in the corresponding text field. If you’d like to make any last-minute changes to the player, quality settings, or presenter bios before publishing, click these properties and make your adjustments. Practice Activity: Publish and Distribute Your Course Now you’re ready to complete the publishing process. Click the Publish button at the bottom of the publishing wizard. When the process is complete, you’ll see a Publish Successful window with one or more follow-up options, depending on the publish option you selected. Since we published for Review 360 in this tutorial, you’ll see an option to view the published course in your Articulate 360 account in your default web browser. To learn more about the follow-up options and distribution instructions for each publish option, see these user guides: Review 360 Web Articulate Online LMS CD Word Summary In this tutorial, you learned how to use Presenter 360’s stunning responsive preview features to see how your mobile-ready course looks and behaves on computers, tablets, and smartphones. And you published a course to Review 360 where you can collect feedback from stakeholders. For answers to common questions about publishing courses for mobile devices, see this user guide.Presenter 360: Customizing the Course Player
In Articulate Presenter 360, the player refers to the interface around the perimeter of your slides. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to customize the course player. You can choose which features appear on the player, customize the menu, attach resources, add a glossary, modify the colors and font, change the text labels, adjust the size, and control how the course behaves when learners launch it more than once. You can even make the player invisible. Watch this video introduction, then follow the activities below to practice. Practice Activities: Open the Player Properties Choose Your Player Features Customize the Menu Change the Colors, Font, and Font Size Customize the Text Labels Change the Player Size and Resume Behavior Save Your Customized Player Practice Activity: Open the Player Properties First, we need to open the player properties. Open the PowerPoint folder in your practice files, then open the Branching_Interaction_Practice1.pptx file. Go to the Articulate tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Player. Notice the three main sections of the player properties window: Player categories appear on the ribbon across the top of the window. The selection pane on the left side of the window is where you make modifications. The interactive preview pane on the right side of the window updates automatically as you makes changes. Practice Activity: Choose Your Player Features The player properties window always opens directly to the Features category where you can choose which features to include on your player, such as tabs, title, sidebar, logo, duration, volume controller, and seekbar. Let’s move the menu to the topbar, disable the presenter panel, turn off the elapsed and total time, and remove the volume controller. Select the Menu tab and move it to the topbar left. Uncheck the Presenter box. (Notice that the sidebar automatically disappears because there’s no content left in it.) Uncheck the boxes for Elapsed and total time as well as Volume. To learn more about the player features, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Customize the Menu In this activity, we’ll customize the menu by demoting and hiding some slides. Click Menu on the player properties ribbon. Select slide 2 and click the right arrow at the bottom of the window to indent the slide (or demote it to a sublevel). Demote slides 3 and 4 in the same way. Select slide 2 and click the eye icon at the bottom of the window to hide the slide from the menu. Hide slides 3 and 4 in the same way. (Hidden slides will still be published with your course. They just won’t show in the menu.) To learn more about customizing the menu, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Change the Colors, Font, and Font Size In this activity, we’ll change the color scheme for our course player, choose a different font, and increase the player font size. Click Colors & Effects on the player properties ribbon. Select a different color scheme. Change the player font to Articulate Light. Increase the player font size to 120% To learn more about changing the player colors, font, and font size, see this user guide. Note: Currently, the color and font options only apply to the standard player, not the responsive player. See this interactive demo to know which player properties are supported in the responsive player. Practice Activity: Customize the Text Labels In this activity, we’ll make a change to one of the player text labels. Click Text Labels on the player properties ribbon. Scroll down to the Menu Tab label. Click the custom text field for the Menu Tab label and change it to Table of Contents. Click Update Preview below the text labels list and watch the Menu tab change in the preview pane. To learn more about customizing the player text labels, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Change the Player Size and Resume Behavior In this activity, we’ll change how the player scales in learners’ browsers and how the course behaves when learners launch it more than once. Click Other on the player properties ribbon. Set the Player size property to Scale player to fill browser window. Change the resume behavior by setting the On restart property to Always resume. To learn more about controlling the browser size and player size, see this user guide. To learn more about changing the resume behavior, see this user guide. To learn about enabling right-to-left language support, see this user guide. Practice Activity: Save Your Customized Player Finally, let’s save our custom player, so we can use it with other courses. Click Current Player on the ribbon and choose Save as. Give your custom player a name and click OK. If you don’t want to keep the custom player we created in this tutorial, click Current Player on the ribbon and choose Delete. To learn more about saving custom players, switching to a different player, and sharing custom players, see this user guide. Summary In this tutorial, you learned how to customize the course player in Presenter 360, including features, menu, colors, font, text labels, size, and resume behavior. To dive even deeper into player customization, see this user guide. In the next tutorial, we’ll publish a course.
