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Sakai Faculty User Manual:
PRESENTATION TOOL
For Sakai 2.5
Lenoir-Rhyne University
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Presentation Tool
The Presentation Tool allows you to present a set of slides to many viewers. You can control the viewing and pacing
of the slide show for everyone or allow them to individually control it. This is not a PowerPoint presentation, but a
slide show that shows fully prepared slides. Captions will need to be embedded on the slide.
Presentation The setup of this tool is a bit different from the others. You are going to begin If you want to add a PowerPoint
Tool
presentation, upload it with the
using the RESOURCES tool.
RESOURCES tool. Don’t place it in
RESOURCES Choose RESOURCES from the list of tools on the left hand side of your
the “Presentations” folder.
screen.
“Add” Click the dropdown arrow next to “Add” and select CREATE FOLDERS.
CREATE Name the folder “Presentations” (case specific). Click Create Folders
FOLDERS
Now.
Click “Add” next to the “Presentations” folder and select CREATE FOLDERS
again.
Name the folder with the title of your presentation or something that will
differentiate it from other folders. Click Create Folders Now.
Finally click “Add” next to the folder you named in the last step. Upload
your images to this folder. It will accept any web-displayable image file
including .gif, .png, and .jpg.
PRESENTATION Choose PRESENTATION from the list of tools on the left hand side of your
If you don’t see the folder, click
REFRESH.
screen.
VIEW You should see the name of the folder you named earlier. You have the
SHOW
option to VIEW or SHOW the presentation. See the 2 notes below.
VIEW / SHOW
-these are the faculty choices. VIEW mode allows viewers to
move through your presentation independently. SHOW allows you to change
the slide the student is seeing.
JOIN
VIEW /JOIN-these
are the student choices. The student can user the JOIN mode
to follow along as you move through your presentation.
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