So you want to turn your PowerPoint presentations into an engaging Custom Course? We've got you covered!
Create Your PowerPoint Course
1. Develop your slides: Create and design your slides with the content you want to present. Ensure that your slides are informative, visually appealing, and effectively convey your message.
2. Specify slide transition time: Determine the duration you want each slide to stay before transitioning to the next one. Open your PowerPoint presentation and navigate to the Transitions tab. In the Timing group, under Advance Slide, set the desired time duration in minutes or seconds (in mm:ss:ms format). For example, if you want each slide to stay for 30 seconds, enter 00:30:00. To maintain a consistent pace across your slides, click "Apply to All." This means, having 6 slides in total will give a runtime of 3 minutes (30 secs per slide).
3. Add background music: If you want to include background music to enhance the course experience, go to the Transitions tab and select the Sound dropdown. Choose a template sound from the list or click "Other Sound" to browse and select your music file from your computer. Once you have chosen the desired music, click "Apply To All" to apply the background music to all slides.
4. Add narration to your Slides: Navigate to the Record tab and click on the "Record" tab in the ribbon at the top of the screen. Under the Record tab, you'll find various options to customize your recording. You can decide to add a cameo of yourself while you record, start recording from the beginning, or choose to record from a current slide. Additionally, if you need to demonstrate something outside of your PowerPoint slides, you can use the screen recording feature.
5. Utilize recording options: During the recording, you have several options to enhance your narration.
See the duration of your recording per slide (1)
Retake video or narration if needed (2)
Record button to start and stop recording (3)
Pause the presentation if required (4)
Turn on/off your camera (5)
Turn on/off your microphone as needed (6).
Once you have completed the recording and are satisfied with your narration, review the presentation to ensure everything is as desired. Make any necessary adjustments or edits if required.
6. Save your presentation as an MP4 video: After finalizing your recorded presentation, go to the "File" tab and select the "Save As" option. Choose the MPEG 4 Video (*.mp4) format to save your presentation as a video file.
7. Upload your video to Workhub: Create a new Custom Course.
To add the PowerPoint video as a lesson, click on the Create New Lesson tab. Upload this video as a MP4 file and save the lesson.
Don't forget to:
Give your lesson a name (1)
Specify the Run Time (2)
Upload your file (3)
Make sure to hit that Save Lesson button, you don't want to lose your hard work (4)
Create the Quiz
The Quiz will unlock once the video has finished playing
Add a Quiz Question
Click the Add Question Button or Edit the existing quiz question by clicking into it
Include a quiz question in the Quiz Question field and add the possible answers for the question.
Make sure you indicate which one is correct using the Correct Answer selector beneath the answer line and Click the Save button when you are finished.
Click Add Question as many times as you need to create all your quiz questions and Click the Save button for your lesson once again
Tailoring your Course Settings
You can change the settings for an individual Online Training course (as opposed to tailoring the settings for your Online Training component as a whole) by clicking into a particular Course in your Online Training list and navigating to the Settings tab.
If you want uniform default settings for ALL of your Online Training Courses, those settings can be created through the main Online Training components setting tab instead of each course individually
All courses will use the global settings as set in the Online Training settings unless changed within an individual course setting. Any changes made in the individual course settings will overrule the global defaults.
You can make whatever changes you deem appropriate to your course in this page, including how long a course is valid for, whether a Worker needs to review a lesson if they fail a quiz, what constitutes a passing mark, and many more!
To change the setting from its global default, you can uncheck the Use Default checkbox on the right side of each setting and make your desired change.
When you've made any changes you'd like to see, be sure to hit Save Course Settings in the top right corner to save those changes.
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