PowerPoint:
Using Breeze to
create streaming
presentations
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Using Breeze Presenter
Presenter allows you to enhance
your presentations by:
• Adding audio
• Adding multimedia such as
video and flash files
• Inserting quizzes and surveys
• Converting into Macromedia
Flash format
• Macromedia Breeze Presenter installs as a menu within PowerPoint.
• All of the functionality you will need is accessible from this menu.
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Set Preferences
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1. Choose Preferences from the Breeze menu.
2. Create a presenter profile. This profile is used to provide the default
presenter information for presentations.
3. Configure the Breeze server to which you want to publish. Our
server is: http://media.spu.edu:8888
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Presentation Settings
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1. Choose Presentation Settings from the Breeze menu.
2. The Settings tab lets you change the presentation title, add a
presentation summary, and select other presentation settings.
3. Use the Attachments tab to add documents or web links to your
presentation.
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Add Audio
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1. Choose Record Audio from the Breeze menu.
2. Set your microphone recording level.
3. Begin recording audio. Clicking Next >> advances the presentation
to the next slide. Clicking Next Animation allows you to time
PowerPoint animations to your narration. If there are no animations
on the slide, clicking Next Slide will take you to the next slide.
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Create Quizzes and Surveys
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1. Choose Quiz Manager from the Breeze menu.
2. A new quiz is created for you. Click Add New Question to add a question.
3. Choose the type of question you would like to create and fill in question
properties.
4. Continue until you have created all questions and click OK in the Quiz Manager.
5. New slides are added to the presentation for each question you created.
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Publish Presentations
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1. Choose Publish from the Breeze menu.
2. Confirm presentation settings by looking at the Presentation Information.
3. Select publish locally ("My Computer") or publish to a Breeze server.
4. Click Publish. If you published locally, you can click View Output to see the
presentation after conversion is complete. If you published to a Breeze
server, a URL is provided. Use this URL in Blackboard to share presentation
with students. Make sure presentation is available to all so students aren’t
asked for a password.
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Learn More
Additional Resources
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Product documentation and
Quick Start Guide are
available via the Help item in
the Breeze menu.
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Visit the Breeze Resource
Center for product tutorials,
best practices, and more:
www.macromedia.com/go/breeze_resources
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