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There are four options to put your PowerPoint Presentation into your WebCT course.
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- Converting to a PDF (Portable Document Format) - Recommended
- Requires viewer to have Adobe Acrobat Reader (free)
- Advantages
- Embeds fonts, meaning that it's easier to ensure that your presentation's appearance doesn't change depending on what fonts are available on the system where it's viewed.
- The document can be saved with the following options:
- No Printing
- No Changing the Document
- No Content Copying or Extractions, Disable Accessibility
- No Adding or Changing Comments and Form Fields
- Password Required to Open Document
- Password Required to Change Permissions and Passwords
- PowerPoint Presentations can be converted to lecture handouts
- Disadvantages
- Supports page-to-page transitions but not animation, so all of your animations in PowerPoint will be lost when you convert to PDF.
- Any audio/video clips or links will not work unless added to the PDF file.
- PDF files displayed in the WebCT Content Module do not allow Student Tracking by module title.
- Instructions
-- Please check with your academic department to see if they offer PDF conversion.
- Save as HTML
- Does not require the user to have PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer.
- Advantages
- Can be viewed in any browser.
- Do not need to have PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer
- Not easily copied
- Disadvantages
- More time consuming
- Loss of PowerPoint features
- Instructions
- Save as a PowerPoint Show
- This requires the user to have the PowerPoint Program or PowerPoint Viewer (free).
- Advantages
- Saves time
- Maintains most PowerPoint features
- Disadvantages
- Works best in Internet Explorer
- Easily copied
- Instructions
- Save as PowerPoint Presentation ( ___.ppt )
- PowerPoint Show opens in the browser in Internet Explorer.
- Needs to be opened in PowerPoint when viewed in Netscape and Firefox.
- Advantages
- Saves time
- Maintains PowerPoint features
- Disadvantages
- Works best in Internet Explorer
- Easily copied
- Instructions
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