Why do students not see my powerpoint slides?
If you upload a powerpoint presentation to Blackboard, your students must have the full powerpoint program in the machine on which they wish to view it. If they do not own powerpoint the easiest and best solution is to have them download the free powerpoint viewer from microsoft at viewer. Another solution is to save your powerpoint presentation as a “web archive” (an .mht or .mhtml file) – use the “save as” feature in powerpoint and then post it to blackboard. This feature may create a much larger file which may take a longer time to download. Finally, be sure to encourage all to use the very latest (and free) version of IE Explorer or Netscape to avoid compatibility problems.
A. If you upload a powerpoint presentation to Blackboard, your students must have the full powerpoint program in the machine on which they wish to view it. If they do not own powerpoint the easiest and best solution is to have them download the free powerpoint viewer from microsoft at viewer. Another less satisfactory solution is to save your powerpoint presentation as a “web archive” (an .mht or .mhtml file) – use the “save as” feature in powerpoint and then post it to blackboard. This feature may create a much larger file which may take a longer time to download, causing the user to think the machine is frozen so be sure to warn them if it is a large file. Finally be sure to encourage all to use the very latest (and free) version of IE Explorer or Netscape to avoid compatibility problems.
