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Slideshow Activity

With the Slideshow Activity, students view photographs associated with the subject and content of the lesson. The slideshow can include text for each image as well. You can also add audio (in an mp3 format).

See online example.

Things to know

Activity title:

Up to 35 characters look best (50 max)

Activity instruction:

Up to 50 characters look best (500 max)

Slide limits:

Maximum of 50 slides can be created withing each activity

Character limits:

Unlimited

Learners can expand the slide to full screen to view all text.

Up to x words at 100% for full text layout without enlarging slide.

Up to 120 words at 100% for above/below layouts

Up to 100 words at 100% for left/right layouts

Activity image best practice:

Set Fill Image: ON to automatically fill the slide with your image.

Learners can expand the slide to full screen to view the full image.

Show the background with Fill Image: OFF:

Full Image Layout:

Recommended image size 1020 x 665

4:3 Image Aspect Ratio work best

Top/Bottom Layout:

Recommended image size 1000 x 272

Left/Right Layout

Recommended image size 342 x 358

To maintain image quality, crop the image dimensions using any image editor (ex. Paint/Paintbrush).

If an image is re-sized but not cropped to match pixel dimensions, the image may be stretched or squeezed to fit which can degrade the image quality.

Image of Completed Activity

Tips

  1. Add multiple local image slides at once using the icon and select multiple images.

  2. Images with little or no text work best with this activity.

Accessibility

Screen readers will also read out loud:

  • Activity Title

  • Activity Instructions

  • Activity Keyboard Command List

Keyboard Command list for Activity

Create a Slideshow Activity

Build the Activity

  1. Click the icon to create a new slide.
    Or;
    Click the icon to select and create multiple local image slides at once.

  2. Hover over the slides imported and select Edit.

  3. Add Alt text for the image (required).

  4. Click Back to return to the activity editor.

  5. Repeat steps 2-4 until each image contains the required Alt text.

  6. When finished, click OK.
    The Labeling Activity placeholder will appear in the lesson.

  7. Preview the lesson changes.

Slideshow Activity video

Fill image: ON

When Show Answers is enabled, any empty placeholder will automatically display the label in the correct placeholder.

Image of Fill Image: ON Show Answers Enabled

Fill image: OFF

When Show Answers is disabled, any label not in a placeholder will remain in the left-hand column and the placeholder will remain empty.

Video of Show Answers Disabled

Slide Background Color

You can customize the slide background color.

Image of a Custom Background Color

Add Media

Video of creating Slideshow Activity with audio files

Customize a Slide

You can add additional content to the slide by selecting an overlay.

This is how the added content will be displayed in the slide.

There are several Overlay options.

  • Center over image

  • At the Top over image

  • At the Bottom over image

  • At the Left over the image

  • At the Right over the image

  • Above the image

  • Below the image

  • At the Left of the image

  • At the Right of the image

Video of Overlay options

Vertical Text Alignment

When Show Answers is enabled, any empty placeholder will automatically display the label in the correct placeholder.

  • Top

  • Corner

  • Bottom

Video of different Vertical Text Alignments

Slideshow Activity Mobile Views

Vertical

Horizontal

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