Using Adobe Presenter

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1 Using Adobe Presenter Adobe Presenter is used to create narrated PowerPoints which are saved as shtml-flash files. If you use PowerPoint slides with titles, the titles will be navigational so that the students can move within the interactive menu. If you do not use slides with titles, the navigation menu will be presented as Slide 1, Slide 2, etc. The audio for each slide is saved separately, so if you have to edit a slide you don t have to edit the entire presentation. This also makes it easy to add slides without having to redo the narrations for the entire presentation. When Adobe Presenter is installed, it will add a tab in PowerPoint. Preferences Click the Settings in the Tools group and then click Presenters to see your information. Click the Edit button to edit your information, which can include a picture. 1

2 Record your narrations Click the Record button in the Audio group (the presentation will automatically go to Slide Show view). Speak the sentence in quotation marks in a natural voice until the input level button turns green and then click OK The recorder window will appear. You can move this to a location on your screen so that it doesn t cover your presentation contents by dragging the gray Adobe Presenter-Record Audio title bar at the top. The recorder box will not be recorded and will not appear in your presentation. Press the red record key to start recording. Press The Stop Recording button when done (or the pause button), and then click the Next button to move to the next slide. 2

3 If your slide has animations, the Stop Recording button will change to a Next Animation button. Press this button to go through the animations and when done, click the Next button. You can press the green play button to play back the audio on that particular slide. If you don t like it, press the Record button and record over the existing recording. When you are done recording, press the OK button 3

4 Publish your presentation Once the recording is completed, finish the presentation by clicking the Publish button on the Adobe Presenter toolbar in the Presentation group. Settings Click the Settings button to change the design theme, add a title to the presentation, and set the playback options. Click the Theme editor to set options for the presentation. Once you have set your theme options you can click the Save As button and give your edited theme a name and save it in the list of available themes. 4

5 Publish your presentation to the Adobe Server (preferred) or Blackboard Adobe Server Click the Adobe Connect tab in the Publish Presentation dialog box, and then click Edit Servers. In the Settings dialog box, click Servers and then click Add. In the Add Server dialog box type UNL Adobe Connect for the name and for the server name. Click OK twice. You only have to do this once. Click the Publish button. When the presentation is processed you will receive an with the links. Click on the link and the presentation will open in your browser. Copy the URL and paste it into your content item in Blackboard. 5

6 You can see all of your recordings by going to Log in with your Blackboard login and click the My Content tab under the Content tab. To find the URL for a presentation, click the presentation to open the information window 6

7 Add Your Narrated PowerPoint to Your Course Go to the content area in your course that you want to add the narrated presentation to. Under Build Content choose Web Link Give the presentation a name and copy the web link from the into the URL field. 7

8 Set any other setting such as availability. I suggest having the web link open in a new window so that the students can easily close the new window when they are done and be back in your Blackboard course. 8