Using PowerPoint presentations in Blackboard without saving
them as HTML
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Instead
of saving your PowerPoint presentations as HTML, you can also use original
PowerPoint presentations. Some notes about PowerPoint presentations
that are not saved at HTML:
- Students
need to have PowerPoint or the PowerPoint Viewer to view
the presentation
- When using plain
PowerPoint presentations, students are essentially downloading
the entire presentation to their harddrive.
- Be
aware that allowing students to download your presentation means
that they have full access to that presentation. If you added presenter
notes to individual slides, those will also be available to students.
Since they download the file to their harddrive, they can keep and
edit that presentation for their own use.
- The downloading
process will differ depending on which browser students are using.
- If
you do NOT want to give up the entire presentation file, but you do
want your students to have access to a printable version of your presentation
you should consider creating a PDF file of the handouts view. But be
aware that you need an additional program (for example Adobe Acrobat)
to do so.
In the following examples,
you will attach a Microsoft Word file to a Blackboard document. Let's use
your syllabus again, so that you can see all the different options you have
to add your syllabus to your course.
- Click the Control Panel
button.
- From the Content
Areas section, choose Course Material.
- Click on the folder
where you would the presentation to reside.
- Click Add Item.
- In the Name
field, select "Other -- Add Text Below."
- In the or specify your own name field, type the
document title: <Presentation as .PPT file<The content will be in the attached file, but you
may still want to use the Text field to enter a brief description of the file you are
attaching. Type the following in the Text
field:
This is a PowerPoint
presentation. You need to have PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer installed
on your machine in order to read it.
- In the Item Attachments
area, click the Browse button and locate the PowerPoint file
- In the Name of
Link to File area, type Presentation (PowerPoint document).
- The Name of Link to File becomes the linked text that
the user clicks on to open the file.
- Leave the Special
Action set to the default "Create a link to this
file." Leave the options in the Options
area set to their defaults.
- Click Submit. A receipt will indicate the successful submission.
- Return to the Student View of the course by clicking
the CourseID in the navigation path in the upper left corner
of your course.
- Click on the Course Material button
in the navigation menu of the Student View.
- Within the appropriate folder, click on the link to
view the presentation. The word processing program will launch and open
the file on your computer.
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Depending on the combination of browser and word processor
you are using, the file may launch differently.
Netscape browsers will typically ask whether
you want to Open or
Save a Microsoft Word document (select Open), and open the document in a separate
Microsoft Word window, leaving a greyed-out pane in Blackboard.
Microsoft Internet Explorer will open a Microsoft
Word document within the browser itself instead of launching Word
separately. Various combinations of browsers and applications can
affect how a document will be launched.
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- Close the document if it opened in a separate window
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