Creating Articulate Lectures without Quizzing Introduction Articulate ’13 allows users to create online lectures using Microsoft PowerPoint with Articulate plugins and has become the standard in rapid authoring of online lectures. Articulate ’13 allows users to easily build courses, quizzes, and other e-learning content using a familiar tool, Microsoft PowerPoint. Once the lecture has been created and published inside Blackboard, students will be able to view the lecture in a mobile compatible format and student’s results from any quizzes included in the lecture will be seamlessly sent to the Grade Center in Blackboard.

Part I: How to use Microsoft PowerPoint’s Record Feature To record an Articulate PowerPoint online lecture, the user will need to add an audio recording to each slide. Users can pause and resume the recording process at any time. To begin the recording process, users must ensure their microphone is detected and working prior to recording their slide show. After the user has confirmed that the microphone is enabled, open the lecture slides in PowerPoint and follow the steps below: Step 1. Select the Slide Show tab in the top navigation menu. Step 2. Click the Record Slide Show drop down chevron. Step 3. Choose one of the following settings:

Start Recording from Beginning:

This option allows you to record each slide from the beginning of the presentation to the end.

Start Recording from Current Slide:

This option allows you to record one slide at a time. Step 4. In the Record Slide Show dialog box, select the following REQUIRED settings:

Narrations and Laser Pointer: captures your audio commentary and illustrations used in the presentation.

Slide and Animation Timings: automatically provides the slide and animation timings needed for the Lindner CID to successfully produce your narrated lecture.

Step 5. After you have selected the required recording settings, click Start Recording to begin narrating your PowerPoint Presentation.

Tip: To pause the narration, in the Recording shortcut menu, click Pause. And to resume your narration, click Resume Recording.

Step 6. To end your slide show recording, right click the slide, and then click End Show or press ESC using the Escape key. The recorded slide show timings will be automatically saved and the slide show timings will appear in the Slide Sorter view beneath each slide. Step 7. To save the lecture with the recorded audio, mouse over the File menu and select Save As. Save the file as a .pptx file.

Part II: Publising an Articulate Lecture After the narration has been recorded, the next step is to publish the lecture. To publish the lecture the user will need to click the Publish button in the Articulate tab in PowerPoint.

After clicking Publish, a dialog box should appear allowing the user to customize the publishing options. On the left, select the Web tab and fill out the fields as they appear in the image below (the fields Title, Description, and Folder can be customized):

Publish button

Part III: Importing a Published Articulate Lecture to Blackboard After completing the publishing steps, a new folder should appear in the designated File location. The new file folder will contain all the files necessary for the web package.

Note: After the file has been created, the package can be uploaded to Blackboard through the Content Collection tool. The steps to upload the file are as described below: Step 1: Navigate to https://canopy.uc.edu and access the course. Step 2: Inside the course, click the Content Collection link on the Course Management panel on the left. After clicking the Content Collection, click on the Course ID for the course

Step 3: After accessing the Content Collection for the Course, create/access the Lectures folder in the course.

Step 4: Inside the Lectures folder, mouse over the Upload drop down menu. From the drop down menu select the Upload Files option. (Please note: this feature is disabled in Google Chrome after update 42.)

Upload option drop-down menu

Create Folder Option if there is not a

Lectures Folder

Step 5: The Upload Files area allows you to upload the multiple files inside the Lecture package all at once. You can click and drag the entire folder over to the Upload Files area which will begin uploading the files to Blackboard once you click Submit.

Click and Drag the Presenter output

file to the Upload Files area.

Click Submit once the

files have been queued

Part IV: Posting an Imported Lecture in Blackboard Once the lecture has been imported into Blackboard, the lecture can be then be linked inside the course. Step 1. To link the lecture you will need to navigate to your Weekly Activities and the Week in which you would like to post the lecture. Step 2. Mouse over the Build Content drop down and select Item or edit the default Lectures Area.

Step 3. Inside the Item area or the default Lecture area highlight the text Lecture 1-1 and click the Link button from the Text Editor.

Insert/Edit Link Button

Step 4. On the Insert/Edit Link page click Browse Content Collection to access all the files in Course Content Collection.

Step 5. Once you find the package you uploaded to the Content Collect, navigate into the contents of the package and select the .html file or the .html5 file to link.

Step 6. After you select the file using the radio button on the left, click Submit at the bottom of the page.

.html file or .html5 file Radio Button

Browse Content Collection

Step 7. Once you have clicked Submit, you will need to click Update to finalize the change.

Set the Target to: Open in

New Window (_blank) Click Update to

Finalize the

Change