1. Creating Engaging Lecture Videos
Using Office Mix
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Creating Engaging Lecture Videos - Using Office Mix

2. What can we use?
I need videos too. I have a student who can’t hear and need captions.
How do I start?
How will I know if my students watch my videos. Also, I don’t have any tech skills.
I’ve got to create videos but don’t know where to start! What do I use?
I want my students to be able to do some self-assessments.
Is there something that can do it all?
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Faculty 1: I have to create lecture videos for my online class. I don’t know where to start. What do I use? I want my students to also be able to do some self-assessments. Is there something that can do it all?
Faculty 2: I’ve need videos, too, I’ve got a student who can’t hear and I know I need to also have close-captions for them. How do I start?
Faculty 3: I want to flip my class and want to record my lectures, but how do I know if my students actually watch my videos? I hate to admit it, but I don’t have any tech skills. I need something easy to use?
All: What can we use?

3. Office Mix PowerPoint Plug-In
So you want to create highly engaging, dynamic lecture videos. Office Mix just may be the solution you’re looking for! One of the best things about Mix is that it’s built on a product that you already know: Microsoft PowerPoint. It’s free and, good news, supported by USC’s University Technology Services (UTS) and Blackboard Support Services. It has features that can meet ALL of your needs.
Voice, Video, and Digital Ink – Mix let’s you record directly over each slide, similar to Voice-Over-PowerPoint. You can also embed external videos into your slides and can annotate directly over each slide – if there’s something you need to highlight. The best feature: if you need to make updates on one slide, you only have to update that one slide and then republish. You don’t have to rerecord everything.
Polls & Interactive Apps – You want to test your students’ knowledge? Mix allows you to embed polls and other interactive apps directly into your presentation. These “polls” are actually multiple choice quiz questions that allow you to add those self-assessments you need. This can help your students test what they’re learning from your videos. This is also one way to check if they’re watching your videos. You can connect this to Blackboard’s grade center.
Insights & Analytics – Mix allows you to track who’s watching your videos through a special sign-in setting. You can have your student sign in with their USC student or you can embed the video directly into Blackboard to track who’s watching your video – as well as number of views; how long they’re watching each slide and overall; and how they’re doing on the quizzes.
Playback on Any Device – Students watch can watch your videos on a variety of devices - tablets, phones, desktops, and laptops.
Another key feature – Mix let’s you add captions to meet the need of all of your students.

4. Steps Download Mix Create PowerPoint Add Quizzes Record Publish
Now that I’ve told you about Office Mix. What do you need to know to use Mix?
The Basics – there are about 8 big steps you need to know to get started. In this video, I’ll provide an overview with a few tips for each to get you started.
Download Mix
Create your dynamic PowerPoint
Add quiz items
Record your audio
Publish your Mix to your Office Mix cloud account
Add your script to create captioned videos
Share your Mix through a URL or embed directly into Blackboard
Check your Mix analytics to see what your students are up to!
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5. Download Mix mix.office.com Step 1 Download Office Mix
Mix is easy to download. Go to mix.office.com. Click the Get Office Mix button and then follow the steps. Your download should start automatically. Run the installer file to complete the install.
Next, you can sign into Mix one of four ways – including with your USC credentials. You’ll need to select the second option: Sign in with a work or school account. Sign in with your full USC and password.

6. Is this readable? What about the design?
Create PowerPoint
Best Practices
Is this readable? What about the design?
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What about the design?
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What about the design?
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Step Two
Create Your PowerPoint
Now that you’ve downloaded Office Mix, it’s time to get started creating your videos. You start by creating a really good, graphically appealing PowerPoint.
Best Practices
Designing a good PowerPoint means thinking about Readability and Graphic Design.
You want your slides to be clear and easy to understand – and this means font type, font size, and color schemes.
Select sans serif fonts, such as Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Open Sans
Images instead of words can really tell your story
But if it’s an image full of words – think about the readability.
Use the 6x6 rule – no more than 6 lines of text, 6 words each
Colors – select color combinations that show high contrast. Black font on white background. White font on a dark background. Some people can’t see certain colors and some color combinations make text hard to read. For instance, blue font on a red background. Red text on a gold background. Blue on purple. Black font on a zebra-print background.
Don’t use color to convey meaning – for instance, telling your students that all important items will be in red.
Remember, simple and clear is always best.
Organize your slides to cover at most about 2 minutes per slide.
Here are a few slides demo’ing good and bad examples. What’s the most readable and graphically appealing? The first or the last?

7. You said I can add self-assessment questions?
Add Quizzes
You said I can add self-assessment questions?
Step Three
Add Quizzes
Once you’ve created your dynamic content, you’re ready to add quizzes to your presentation to create self-assessments. These are a great way to let student’s get immediate feedback on what they’re learning. You add a black slide to your slide set. Click the Mix tab. Click the Quizzes-Videos-Apps icon. Select Microsoft Choice Quiz app. This will open the quiz screen. Type in your question. Add multiple choice answer options. Select the correct answer by click the check mark on the right side. You can even add feedback to each answer option – just click the speech bubble next to the check mark.

8. Record Equipment Step Four Recording and Equipment
Now you’re set to record your lecture. You can do this using some very basic equipment – and all from the location your office. You’ll need a computer with either an internal or external webcam, headset or desktop mic, or you can even use a smartphone with a mic or camera.
But first, you should start by writing out your script. Writing your script first helps when you record: it helps keep you focused and on point; you won’t talk in circles, or forget what you wanted to say; it will help you reduce speaking errors (…I’m a big uh and umm talker myself when I’m trying to think of what need to say!); and most importantly, it helps you with the captioning and transcript stage. Type your notes into the Notes section of PowerPoint.
Once you’re script is ready, you’re ready to record. To use mix, a computer with a mic or webcam is best. Next, all you need to do is click the Mix tab in PowerPoint, then click the Slide Recording button. A recording screen will open. Click the notes icon to open your script to read while you’re recording. To begin, click the red Record button. Within this recording environment, you can annotate over your PowerPoint slides using a variety of colors, basic shapes, and pen styles. Once you’re finished, click the stop button and let Mix do its thing.

9. Publish Step Five Publish
You’ve finished recording your narrative. It’s time to Publish your Mix to the cloud. Three easy steps: Click the Upload to Office Mix button. Sign-in with your work account.

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14. References Pixabay.com Office Mix
Office Mix Training File, David Lopez