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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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1. Go to Google Drive.
2. Select "New" in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
3. Select Google Slides. Image Removed
4. In a new Presentation, select "File" and then "Import Slides.". Image Removed
5. Upload the PowerPoint file.
6. Select "All" or only select slides from the PowerPoint file.
7. Click "Import slides".
8. Select "File" and select "Publish to the Web". Image Removed
9. Click "Embed".
10. Select "Publish" and copy the Google Slides Embed Code. Image Removed
11. Start SoftChalk Create.
12. Go to Insert / Widget.
13. Give the Widget a title and Paste HTML. Image Removed
14. 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.
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.
9. Choose Insert/Activity/Slideshow.
10. Click the New slides with images icon ( Image Removed )
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.
13. Save and preview your lesson.

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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 and choose Edit/Paste.

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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, 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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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 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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