Import PowerPoint

Moodle1.6

The goal of this feature is to capture text and and graphics from a series of MS PowerPoint presentation slides and insert them into the content area of a series of branch tables, as text and images. The title of the page come from the title of the PowerPoint slide. The descriptions on the branch page are blank, so the initial settings will follow the flow control parameter in lesson settings.

Simple text presentations can be imported without much trouble. At the moment this feature is best used by teachers who want to do an initial lesson outline in MS PowerPoint 2000 or 2002. It does not handle all the rich outlining and graphics potentials of these versions of PowerPoint. See hints below.

The instructions

1. Create the Web Folder
   • Open the MS PowerPoint presentation (2000 or 2002 only)
   • In "File" click on "Save as"
   • Change or note "Save In" setting
   • Set Save "file type" pulldown menu to "Web Page"
   • click on "Save"
2. Zip the folder
   • Find the folder you just created
   • Zip the folder with your favorite program
3. In Moodle, import the PowerPoint
   • Create the Lesson, set the settings, save settings
   • Select "Import PowerPoint"
   • Select "Continue"
   • Start editing the branch pages

Hints

1. Keep it simple
   • No page numbers
   • No text boxes with graphic or filled backgrounds
   • Don't worry about your masterslide, none of its content will import
   • Watermarks and text over graphics is probably not a good idea
2. Check each page in student view
   • Make sure all your bullets are there
   • Double check your text when there is a lot on a page
   • Did it import the right number of graphic objects

See also

• Using Moodle Import Powerpoint html to lesson forum discussion