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Using PowerPoint in Online Courses
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PowerPoint and WebCT
PowerPoint and WebCT
This tutorial details and demonstrates the steps necessary to add PowerPoint slide shows to WebCT. The process involves five steps.
General Rules of Thumb:
• No illegal characters in file names (e.g., punctuation).
• Keep file names simple. It is best to keep file names short with no spaces.
• Use titles in your PowerPoint slides since they will be used as the titles for the Web-friendly version.
II. Creating a Zip file using WinZip
In Step I you learned how to convert a PowerPoint presentation into a web-friendly collection of HTML pages and GIF/JPEG images that you can place in your WebCT course.
Since WebCT allows you to upload only one file at a time, uploading the entire collection of HTML files and GIF/JPEG images created in Step I would be incredibly tedious and take a significant amount of time.
You can spare yourself from this process by creating a zip archive of the files created in Step I.
This step will detail the process of creating a zip archive, a single file which you can upload into WebCT (covered in Step III) and unzip using WebCT's built-in unzip tool (covered in Step IV).
Follow these steps to create a Zip archive of your PowerPoint web files to upload into your WebCT course...
Note: These instructions are relevant to users of WinZip on Windows.
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Figure 2a: Naming the Zip archive file
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- Double-click the My Computer icon on your Windows desktop and navigate to the location of the web files that were created during the conversion in Step I.
- Click once on the .htm file that was created during the conversion in Step I.
While holding the Ctrl key, click once on the folder of image files (,which ends in _files,) that was created during the conversion in Step I.
For example, if your PowerPoint presentation is called MyPresentation.ppt, click once on MyPresentation.htm and hold the Ctrl key while clicking on the MyPresentation_files folder.
- Next, right-click on either the MyPresentation.htm file or the MyPresentation_files folder and select Add to Zip.
It is important that both the MyPresentation.htm file and the MyPresentation_files folder be selected during this operation.
- WinZip should launch, with the Add window displayed and waiting for your input as shown in Figure 2a.
Enter a file name for the .zip archive in the input field under Add to archive:.
The three-letter .zip extension will be automatically added if the file name you enter does not end in the extension .zip.
Once the file name has been entered, click the Add button.
- WinZip will display the list of files that are contained within the .zip archive you just created.
The collection should include some .htm files, .gif and .jpg images, and one or two .xml metadata files.
You are now ready to proceed to Step III, where you will learn how to upload the .zip file from your computer into WebCT.
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Proceed to Step III