
4 steps to Creating
PowerPoint 2000 as HTML and Uploading into Blackboard
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- Creating New Folder
- Saving Presentation
as Webpage
- Zipping Your Files
- Uploading to Blackboard
**Also see how
to upload PowerPoints to Blackboard without converting
to HTML
Step 1. Creating
New Folder
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We
are going to create a folder that we will use to store files from
a PowerPoint Presentation. We will then use these files to be zipped,
uploaded, and unzipped into a Blackboard course website to be made
available for students to view as a presentation.
- From your
active desktop, right click the mouse.
- Select New,
from the menu that appears.
- Once you
have selected New, another menu will appear. From this
menu, at the very top you should select Folder.
This will create
a new folder on your desktop that we will be able to use to save our
documents as we learn how to transform a PowerPoint presentation into
an HTML file and then upload it into a Blackboard course. |
Now, let's open a
presentation to use for this demonstration, and go to the "Normal View".
Step 2. Saving Presentation
as Webpage
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- From the
"File" drop down menu, select Save as Web Page.
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- Then select
Tools from the upper right hand corner of the window that
appears.
- Next select
Web Options.
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Under the General
tab:
- deselect
the boxes next to Show slide animation while browsing and
Resize graphics to fit browser window.
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Under the Files
tab:
- deselect
Organize supporting files in a folder and Office is
the default editor.
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Under the Pictures
tab:
- be sure
both boxes are deselected
- Click OK
at the bottom of the "Web Options" menu.
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Notice: When
we complete this step we will NOT click Save. We WILL
click Publish
Before we publish,
there are a few things left to do on the "Publish as Web Page" menu.
- First let's
deselect Display speaker notes for now.
- Also select
Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later.
- If you would
like to change the title of your web page you may select "Change."
and then type in the new title.
- To select
a location and/or change the default file name select "Browse".
- You may want
to Open published Web page in browser so let's select that
button. Now when we publish our web page we can view it right
away.
- Okay, let's
do it! Click the Publish button on the menu.
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Step 3. Zipping Your Files
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in the process is to "zip" all the files in the presentation folder.
To do this find your WinZip program from the "Start" menu (Hint:
this is not your zip drive). Note: For Mac users, using MacZip, this
setup will be a little different. If you are using PKZip, then
you will find instructions starting on page 16 in the back
of this handout.To download software for your PC or Mac visit: http://www.twocows.com or try any other site
that you know of that allows you to download software. |
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- When prompted,
simply select, I Agree, and proceed.
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- Once you
have reached the WinZip main menu select New to
create a new archive.
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- In the New
Archive window that opens, create a filename so that you will
be able to find it once it has been created. In the example it
is called "Archive".
- Now click
OK and that launches the Add files window.
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- In the
ADD interface, find the drive and folder that contain your presentation
files.
- Be sure
to add all of the files that are stored in your presentation
folder. The quickest way to do this is to single click on the
very first file, so that it is highlighted. And then while holding
down the Shift key, move to the very last file and single
click on it. This should make it so that all of the files are
now highlighted.
- At this
point you may now select Add.
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Once
you have successfully completed the steps mentioned above, a window
should open that lists all of your presentation files as they have
been zipped.
- Simply close
that window and we will proceed to the next step of moving the
presentation into Blackboard.
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Notice that you do
NOT need to save your archive after adding files.
Step 4. Uploading to Blackboard
- At this point
open Blackboard. Please follow along as we go through the steps.
- Click the
Control Panel button.
- From the
Content Areas section, choose the area and folder where
you want to place your PowerPoint Presentation.
- Click Add
Item.
- In the Name
field, select "Other -- Add Text Below."
- In the or
specify your own name field, type a document title (for example
PowerPoint as HTML Document).
- The content
will be in the attached file, but you may still want to use the
Text field to enter a brief description of the file you
are attaching.

- A new window
will appear, asking you to define the starting point for your
presentation.
- Select the
shortest file name - it consists only of the file name and the
htm extension.
- Click on
Submit.
- In the Item
Attachments area, click the Browsebutton and locate
the ZIP file you created in step 3.
- In the Name
of Link to File area, type a link name, or leave it blank
- The Name
of Link to File becomes the linked text that the user clicks on
to open the file.
- Leave the
Special Action set to the default "Unpackage this
file."
- Click Submit.

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- Return to
the Student View of the course by clicking the CourseID in the
navigation path in the upper left corner of your course.
- Click on
the Course Material button in the navigation menu of the Student
View.
- Within the
Syllabus folder you will see your "syllabus as Word Document"
item, with a link to the document titled "syllabus".
Click on the link (Microsoft Word document)link to view the document.
The word processing program will launch and open the file on your
computer.
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Depending on
the combination of browser and word processor you are using, the
file may launch differently.
Netscape
browsers will typically ask whether you want to Open or Save
a Microsoft Word document (select Open ), and open the
document in a separate Microsoft Word window, leaving a greyed-out
pane in Blackboard.
Microsoft
Internet Explorer will open a Microsoft Word document within
the browser itself instead of launching Word separately. Various
combinations of browsers and applications can affect how a document
will be launched.
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- Close the
document if it opened in a separate window.
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Appendix
In order to use PKZIP to zip and compress your files follow
these instructions.
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Open
PKZIP. Go ahead and click OK to the window that appears. Then
find the folder that stores your files on the desktop. |
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Click on it
and they will appear. 
Next click New.
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Use the strategy
you learned in WinZip to
- select the
first file and highlight all of them by holding the shift button
as you select the file at the end of the list.
- Then click
Compress.
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Follow the steps as
you would above in Step 4 to upload the files into Blackboard.
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