User guide

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Engaging learners through interactive presentations: Using Adobe Presenter (Breeze)
Educational Technology Team
email: [e-mail]
Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning
Introduction to Adobe Presenter
When you start developing an online lesson, one of the main factors that you should consider is the media
you would use to deliver the instruction. Two common e-Learning delivery media are: asynchronous web-
based courses and synchronous virtual sessions.
Adobe Presenter is a plug-in that integrates with Microsoft PowerPoint and simplifies the creation and
sharing of narrated, self-paced, media-rich presentations. With Adobe Presenter, you can create dynamic
presentations and courses, complete with a narrated voice-over, directly from within PowerPoint.
Are you faced with the following problems?
• You want your presentations to be viewed by others without being edited or downloaded,
• You have had problems with numerous versions of the same presentation after making changes,
• Your mailbox has been filled by a presentation attached to an e-mail, or
• Your students complain that it takes a long time for them to download your presentations.
Adobe Presenter allows instructors to create compelling Flash presentations, e-learning courses and
develop tutorials, including narration and assessments, using PowerPoint. With just a few clicks in
PowerPoint, you can transform your presentations into engaging e-learning courses by easily adding
narration, animations, interactivity, quizzes, videos and software simulations. It also reduces the file size
will to a quarter enabling students to easily access even with slow connections. It is an easy first step to
incorporate additional technology into the classroom.
How it benefits the instructors and students
• Converts PowerPoint to Flash.
• Reduces the file size, and thereby reduces time taken to upload and download these resources
even while they are off-campus.
• Publish content as a PDF file, preserving all of the animations.
• Students are not required to have the PowerPoint program or viewer to watch -- the latest flash
player (a free download) is sufficient.
• Adobe presenter makes it easy to add audio.
• Adding narration to a PowerPoint gives online students more of a face-to-face class experience.
• Allows instructors to design quick quizzes for student assessment and enables question pooling
and randomization.
• Helps ensure consistency with branding and customization.
Recommendations before starting
It is recommended that you have prior experience with using Microsoft PowerPoint. Bear in mind that
visually your presentation will only be as good as your skills in Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Presenter
acts as an audio supplement to your PowerPoint presentations.
It is also recommended that you use a headset to record audio for your presentation. A headset will allow a
more consistent distance from your mouth and the microphone and avoids recording as much background
noise as desktop/boom microphones.
Note: Desktop/Boom microphone is NOT recommended