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Introduction

There are several ways to repurpose content from your existing Google Slide or PowerPoint presentations into a SoftChalk lesson.
The quickest way to add content from a slideshow presentation is to embed the content within a SoftChalk lesson – see the sections:

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This guide will cover several options for incorporating information from a Microsoft PowerPoint^® presentation into a SoftChalk lesson. Basically, you can transfer data from your PowerPoint^® file into a SoftChalk lesson or you can link to a viewable PowerPoint^® file.
Please see the options below. 

1. Upload your PowerPoint^® file to Google Slides, copy the Google Slides Embed code and add the Google Slides Embed code as a Widget in your SoftChalk lesson. For details see the section Save PowerPoint® File as Google Slides and Paste Google Slides Embed Code into a Widget
2. Save your PowerPoint^® file as a series of images and import these images into the SoftChalk Slideshow Activity. For details, see the section Save PowerPoint^® File as Images and Place Images into a SoftChalk Activity.
3. Save your PowerPoint^® file as a viewable file. Then in your SoftChalk lesson, you can provide a link to this viewable file. For details, see the section Save as a Viewable File.
4. Save your PowerPoint^® file as a file in a Rich Text Format. Then you can open this file and copy text that you can paste into your SoftChalk lesson. For details, see the section Save as Rich Text Format. (This option does not export the text for the notes. Option 5 below exports the text for the notes.)
5. Publish your PowerPoint^® file into separate images into a Word file. Then in your SoftChalk lesson, you can paste these images. This publishing option allows you to copy and paste the text of notes. For details, see the section Save Images in a Word File.
6. Purchase a software program that lets you convert a large PowerPoint^® file into a compressed viewable file(s). Then in your SoftChalk lesson, you can link to this compressed viewable file(s). For details, see the sections and Use Impatica or Articulate Presenter and Use Adobe Presenter.

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• Embed a Google Slide Presentation in a SoftChalk Lesson
• Convert a PowerPoint Presentation to a Google Slide Presentation and Embed It in a SoftChalk Lesson
• Embed a PowerPoint® for the Web Presentation in a SoftChalk Lesson

Many instructors will break up a long presentation with lots of slides into smaller presentations, embed each presentation and then add SoftChalk interacti

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   Open a presentation in Google Slides.
2. Select File and select Publish to the Web. Image Added
3. Click Publish (in case you don't see Publish, you may need to enlarge your screen). At the screen Are you sure you want to publish this selection, click OK.
4. Click Embed and copy the Embed code.

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1. Start SoftChalk Create.
2. Go to Insert / Widget.
3. Give the Widget a name and click Paste HTML. Image Added
4. Click OK to insert the Widget into your lesson. You will see the Widget placeholder in Create. When you Save and Preview the lesson, you will see the Google Slides appear within the Widget frame.

You can see an example of Google Slides presentations embedded in SoftChalk's 2019 First Place Lesson Challenge Winner in an online orient

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Convert a PowerPoint Presentation to a Google Slide Presentation and Embed It in a SoftChalk Lesson

1. Go to Google Drive.
2. Select "New" in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
3. Select Google Slides.
4. In a new Presentation, select "File" and then "Import Slides.".
5. Upload the PowerPoint file.
6. Select "All" Click Upload and drag over a file or Select a file from your device.
7. Once you've uploaded your PowerPoint presentation, besides the Select slides option select All (or only select slides from the PowerPoint file).
8. Click "Import slides".
9. Select "File" and select "Publish to the Web". Image Removed
10. Click "Embed".
11. Select "Publish" and copy the Google Slides Embed Code. Image RemovedImport slides (if you don't see Import slides, you may need to expand your window).

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1. Follow the steps in the previous section Embed a Google Slide Presentation in a SoftChalk Lesson.

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Embed a PowerPoint^® for the Web Presentation in a SoftChalk Lesson

1. Save your presentation to OneDrive.com. (Storing the presentation to a public folder online is what allows you to embed it on a web page.)

1. Open your presentation in PowerPoint for the web. On the File tab of the Ribbon, click Share, and then click Embed.

1. To create the HTML code to embed your file in the web page, click Generate.

1. In the Embed box, under Dimensions, select the correct dimensions.

1. Under Embed Code, right-click the code, click Copy, and then click Close.

1. Start SoftChalk Create.

1. Go to Insert / Widget.

1. Give the Widget a title name and click Paste HTML.

1. Then Click OK to insert the Widget into your lesson. You will see the Widget placeholder in Create. When you Save and Preview the lesson, you will see the Google Slides appear within the Widget frame.

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You can save your PowerPoint^® file as a series of images and import these images into SoftChalk as a Slideshow Activity (or you can insert each image individually into a SoftChalk lesson).
If you have PowerPoint^® 2007, you can do the following:

1. Within PowerPoint^® 2007, open a presentation.
2. Choose Save As.
3. At the bottom of the window for the Save as type, select JPEG (*.jpg).
4. Click Save.
5. At the next window asking what to export, click Every Slide.
6. A folder will be created with each slide appearing as an image.
7. Quit PowerPoint^®.
8. Start SoftChalk Create.
9. Choose Insert/Activity/Slideshow.
10. Click the New slides with images icon ( )
11. Click Select Folder.
12. Select the folder with the slide images you created earlier. Click Open.
13. Confirm the slide(s) order.
14. Move your cursor over a slide and click Edit.
15. Add alt text for the image.
16. Click Back.
17. Add alt text for each image.
18. Click OK to close the Slideshow Activity window.

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If you have purchased iSpring Pro from http://www.ispringsolutions.com (this is the purchased program that has more features), then follow the steps below.

1. Install the iSpring Pro program (see above for the link).
2. Start PowerPoint^®. Once you install the application above, iSpring Pro appears as a top menu item within your PowerPoint^® program.
3. Click iSpring Pro. Then click Quick Publish to produce your published PowerPoint presentation.
4. Let's say your original PowerPoint file is called brain anatomy. After you publish with the Quick Publish method mentioned above, you have a folder called brain anatomy. [The default location creates a Presentations folder under My Documents (or Documents).]
5. Just fyi, within this brain anatomy folder is another folder called data and three files called fixprompt.js and index.html and presentation.xml.
6. Start SoftChalk and create a lesson. Save the lesson with a name such as unit1.
7. Quit SoftChalk.
8. Copy the brain anatomy iSpring presentation folder and paste this folder inside your SoftChalk lesson folder (e.g. unit1).
9. Start SoftChalk again and open your unit1 lesson.
10. Select some text and choose Insert/Hyperlink.
11. In the URL or selected file box, type brain anatomy/index.html. (Be sure to delete any http:// or https:// in this box.)
12. Select the checkbox Open a link in a new window. Click OK.Save and preview your lesson.

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Save as Rich Text Format

You can save text from your PowerPoint^® file into a file with a Rich Text Format. Then you can copy text from this file.

1. In PowerPoint^®, choose File/Save as (or go to the ball in the top left corner of your PowerPoint^® window and choose Save as/Other Formats).
2. From the Save as type drop-down menu, choose Outline/RTF.
3. Click Save.
4. Notice that you have two files – your original PowerPoint^® file and your new file with the extension .rtf.
5. Double-click on your new .rtf file. It should open in Microsoft Word.
6. In Word, copy all the text. [You can select all the text using (Ctrl+a) and then copy the text.]
7. Start SoftChalk Create and choose Edit/Paste.

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Save as a Viewable File

The following method allows students to bring up the PowerPoint^® presentation within PowerPoint^® in a Read-Only mode. However, with this method, students can choose File/Save As to save the presentation with another name on their computers.

1. In PowerPoint^®, choose File/Save As (or go to the ball in the top left corner of your PowerPoint^® window and choose Save as/PowerPoint Presentation).
2. At the drop-down Save type as menu, choose PowerPoint^® Show (.pps). For PowerPoint^® 2007 users, we recommend that you NOT choose the .ppsx version for compatibility reasons with older web browsers. Rather choose PowerPoint 97-2003 Show (.pps).
3. In SoftChalk Create, select some text that you want to use as the hyperlink to your PowerPoint^® file.
4. Choose Insert/Hyperlink.
5. Click Select file and navigate to your PowerPoint^® file .pps file.
6. Once you've selected your file, click Open.
7. If you want your students to view the PowerPoint^® file in a new browser window, then select the checkbox Open the link in a new window.
8. Click OK to return to your main lesson window.
9. Choose File/Save.

When you save your lesson, SoftChalk automatically places a copy of the linked PowerPoint^® viewable file into your lesson folder. That way, when you are ready to move your lesson folder to another computer or package your lesson all the files are in one folder.

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Save Images in a Word File

You can publish your PowerPoint^® slides as images (with a .jpg format) into Microsoft Word. Then you can copy and paste these images from Word into your SoftChalk lesson. Since you are converting the images rather than the animation, no transitions or effects from PowerPoint^® will appear in SoftChalk.
This publishing method allows you to copy and paste the text for the notes.

1. In PowerPoint^®, open your slide show. Choose File/Send To/Microsoft Word. In PowerPoint^® 2007, choose the ball in the top left corner of your PowerPoint^® window and choose Publish/Create Handouts in Microsoft Office Word.
2. Choose Notes below slides if you want to have the largest size images.
3. Click OK. PowerPoint^® converts each slide to a jpg file and then automatically opens a Word document and places each of the slide image files into the Word document.
4. In Word, copy all the text. [You can select all the text using (Ctrl+a) and then copy the text.]
5. Start SoftChalk Create and choose Edit/Paste. All the slide images and notes will be pasted into your SoftChalk lesson for further editing and enhancement.

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According to the Adobe website, Adobe Presenter allows "non-technical users and subject matter experts to create, edit and publish compelling interactive presentations."
The following steps explain how you can incorporate two Adobe Presenter videos into a SoftChalk lesson.
The first produced Presenter video is in a folder called test1 which includes the following files:
breeze_manafest.xml
components.swf
index.html
loadflash.js
viewer.swf
viewerlite.swf
The second produced Presenter video is in a folder called test2 which includes the following files:
breeze_manafest.xml
components.swf
index.html
loadflash.js
viewer.swf
viewerlite.swf

1. Create a SoftChalk lesson called tutorials.
2. Quit SoftChalk.
3. Copy the above two folders (test1 and test2) into your tutorials lesson folder.
4. Start SoftChalk and open your tutorials lesson.
5. Type Test1 Video and select this text.
6. Right-click and choose Hyperlink.
7. In the URL box, type test1/viewer.swf.

Repeat the same process for the Test2 video using test2/viewer.swf for the URL.
FYI, with SoftChalk Version 4 and later, when you package your lesson, all the folders inside the lesson become part of the zip file.

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Help

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