Displaying Bullets on Click

[Kathie]

In PPT, when doing a presentation, you can advance the bullets on click using the Custom Animation feature. If this is turned on and then published, all it does is give the bullets a timing.

I have someone using Articulate for a presentation - but they want to have the bullets come up on click - as when you do custom animations in PPT. No audio involved - they will just advance on click.

Can someone give me a step-by-step? How do I create the SWF in PPT so that I can then bring it into Engage? Remember, there is NO audio involved - just want to advance on click.

Thanks!

[brianosmi]

Just wondering if you have found a resolution to this problem? There is a fairly simple solution using Presenter... If it would help I can outline it here.

[Kathie]

No - and simple is good!

[brianosmi]

Tom Kuhlman (aka "doofdaddy") presented this work around some time ago, and around where I work we call it "poor man's Flash". It usually works pretty good for us.

Try this:

1. Create a powerpoint presentation. Using a large size font create slides with the bullets you need, add your animation, publish with Presenter and view to make sure that the animation is appearing as it should.
2. After publishing, find the "data\swf" folder in your published output. There you will find a number of .swf files created by Presenter. "slide1.swf" is the first slide of your presentation, "slide2.swf" is the second, and so on.
3. Import these .swf files into Engage. It may take some tweaking as far as size, etc., within Engage, but you should end up with a favorable end result.

If you have problems with the way your .swf files are appearing in Engage, let me know what interaction you're using and I'll let you know the settings I would use for that interaction.

Good luck, and let us know how it turns out if you are able to give it a try...

[Kathie]

What if I don't want to use an actual Engage interaction for this slide? Just using the PPT slide for this one, so it is being published with Presenter (other slides have Engage interactions).

[brianosmi]

Kathie, I think I must have gotten thrown by your question at the end of your post about bringing the powerpoint into Engage.

If I am reading the first part of your post right, you want to have a presenter manually click to bring in each bullet in an Articulate presentation, correct? The only way you can use Articulate this way would be to build a series of slides where you keep adding your bullet points one by one and setting all of the slides to advance manually.

For example, build your first slide with only bullet #1. Your presenter opines on the subject, then manually advances to the second slide which would have bullet #1 and bullet #2. When using this approach I would generally animate bullet #1 on the first slide, but not on any other slides after that. On the second slide I would animate only bullet #2. This gives the "illusion" that everything is happening on one slide when in actuality your presenter is moving from slide to slide to slide, each one building on the last.

Probably waaaaay too long and wordy an explanation for this (sorry!).

[daveperso]

This article also explains the procedure Brian describes.

Creating On-Click Triggers in Articulate Presenter

[brianosmi]

Thanks Dave, I knew I had read an article about that somewhere but couldn't remember where it was.