Interactive Online Presentations Made Simple Amyr Haq Office Mix Evangelist on Twitter mix.office.com
Challenges for Online Presentations Difficult to author online lessons Difficult to make them engaging Difficult to publish and share Difficult to get relevant analytics
What is Office Mix? 1.Free add-in for PowerPoint that makes it easy to create interactive online lessons 2.Free web-portal to publish, share, and see analytics for lessons 3.Browser-based interactive player for lessons that works on all devices 4.Extensible platform supporting novel interactibles, embedding, analytics, … leveraging standards
Office Mix Demo
What you just saw Authoring familiar and simple as PowerPoint Start from or revise existing decks Adding interactivity simple as adding clip-art Share easily and securely Rich playback on all devices Built-in analytics for insights Free
Publish to thousands of sites and platforms via oEmbed embed.ly SCORM Supported: LTI Integration Embed Experience SharePoint Blogs FacebookTwitter LTI (sample) Moodle edX
Sign up for 1-on-1 help:
Amyr Haq Office on Twitter
Some Example Mixes Math and science teachers English and language arts teachers Young children Professional development
Tips and Tricks If old PowerPoint deck, then open and save as “pptx” with PowerPoint Use external webcam. Better A-V quality. No stylus noise. Audio is key. Adjust microphone volume with slider in recording pane until signal-bar shows activity until middle of scale. Consider external microphone like Blue Yeti, Nessie. Record first slide, and playback to see all ok before recording other slides. Pause briefly between slides. It makes it easy to re-record individual ones. Use video where essential, but audio-only allows greater focus on content and delivery. Ensure video check-box off when uploading, until close to final version. It considerably slows down the publishing process.
Useful Links For users: Office Mix: Office Mix for Education: and Get copy of Office 365 / PowerPoint-2013: For IT administrators and developers: Apps for Office: Office Mix Labs: Player.JS: edX integration: Moodle Integration:
Administrators Professional development Leadership communications Students Project reports Storytelling Communication Skills Teachers Blended learning and flipped classrooms Sharing best practices and lessons with colleagues Online Presentations for Education
Extending Mix Apps for Office Standard for MS Office Office.js and Labs.js Add new types of interactibles Player.js Open source Player APIs Host can manage player easily Adjust look and feel 2 Player implements Player.js 1 Interactive elements are Apps for Office (HTML5+JS)