I am having trouble loading a PowerPoint presentation. Is there another option?

 

Description – If you are having trouble loading a PowerPoint presentation or would like to load an unsupported file type you have another option. You can load your content as image files within Elluminate Live!

The solution below gives the steps for exporting the slides to images for PowerPoint and may differ slightly for other applications. The process to load the content will be the same for everyone.

Solution:

1. Open the PowerPoint presentation
2. From the File menu, select Save As.
3. In the Save As dialogue box, choose either GIF, JPEG, PNG from the Save as type drop-down menu.
   
   
4. Save all the images in the presentation. A folder will be created where each slide in the presentation will be saved as a static image and numbered accordingly.
5. Now to load the slides in Elluminate Live!, click on the “Load Presentation” tool in the Whiteboard window.
6. In the Select Screens dialog box, determine whether you wish to insert the file before or after a screen, replace a screen or as a sub-topic of a screen
   
   
7. Determine whether you want to insert the file in relation to the Current Screen or Selected Screens.
   
   
8. Click OK. The Load File dialog box appears.
9. From the Files of Type drop-down menu select Filter for Image Files.
10. Navigate to the folder created in Step 4 containing the images.
11. Select all of the images by clicking the first image and then the last image while holding down your Shift key.
12. From the Screen Creation Options shown on the right be sure to select Alpha-Number order.
13. Click Open which will load the images. Each image will be loaded onto a separate whiteboard screen as a background image.