support to the middle choice Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator 3

							Usuarios,

El siguiente es un compendio de intercambios sobre el uso de Powerpoint con WebCT. El
mismo proviene del grupo de usuarios de WebCT.

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Friends,

This is in response to Todd Black's WebCT post. I've not had a chance to deal with the quality
of images, but here's what we're doing to get PowerPoint into WebCT. The plan may seem
obvious, to many; but for us it took a 19-year-old to show us how. Now we're kicking ourselves
for thinking it was too complicated.

1. We save the PP as HTML, using the *.gif option rather than *.jpg. [your choice] I prefer the
1/2 page option for the size of the image. This is automatically saved into a PP HTML folder.
Then we zip all of the files in this folder [that belong to the PP presentation] with winzip.
2. Then in WebCt we make a new directory for what will be the Powerpoint presentation.
3. We upload the zipped file into this new WebCT directory.
4. Then unzip the file.
5. In the Path Editor we add the file for the first slide [another option is that you could also elect
to add the file for the index slide instead]. You will know it because the last several characters
are: zip/sld.001.htm
6. Then when we open this file all of the PowerPoint images are intact and the navigation works.
We have a PowerPoint presentation in the "Course Content" section of WebCT.

David Kletzing, Ph.D.
Instructional Technology Services
Media Resources
Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL 60187-5501

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We have found that you can use PowerPoint 2000 for creating webpages of the
slide show if you carefully jump through the correct hoops. You first of all
must save the PowerPoint show as a webpage (but be carefull), before you hit
the save key, you must go into the "publish" button in the middle of the Save
Message box. From there you can customize the way the webpage will be saved.
We have found that in order to be truly compatible with WebCT and all the
various browsers in use, you must change from the default setting for browser
support to the middle choice (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape
Navigator 3.0 or later). The files generated can then be easily uploaded into
WebCT. One caveat, you must create the subdirectory that powerpoint creates (
NameOfPresentation_files) on the WebCT server for this to operate correctly.
Otherwise, things work rather smoothly.

Hope this helps,

Bill Perry
CITE
Northern Michigan University

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A while ago, in one of my weekly columns to our faculty, I gave them several
options and commented on each. You can read it from
http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/fyi/sep2399/askbo3.htm

Bo Lou

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Bill, I have also done some experimenting. One other option is that under
the publish button, then web options, you can uncheck the box that tells
powerpoint to make a seperate folder for support. This enables you to have
all the files in one WebCT directory.

Robby Ambler
Technical Support Specialist, Pagemaster
Georgia Southern University
Distance Learning Center
PO Box 8018
Statesboro, GA 30460
(912) 681-0882

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G'day
Just a short comment on PPT generated images through
save as HTML option. Resizing images using commonly
available graphic editors is an option that I think
does not provide optimum file size and optimum clarity.

Why don't you choose the desired image size in the
first place. You can simply set the PPT image size
using "File" --> "Page Setup" in Power Point.

Parviz Doulai
University of Wollongong
Australia

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Hi WebCT-users

Thanks to everyone for their suggestion on saving powerpoint presentations
as HTML. I hope to implement them as soon as I can find out why my "save
as HTML.." option in Office Pro 97 is always greyed out.

Over the weekend I almost got around the problem by creating a batch job
in Photoshop 5.0. The job would look at a directory on my pc, open each
graphic file one at a time and reduce the length and width of each image
to 75% of its original size. It would then save them into a second
directory.

While the scaling errors were greatly reduced, it wasn't the perfect
transition that the academics here were looking for.

Thanks again