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  • Page 1 Breeze Presenter User Guide...
  • Page 2 Other product names, logos, designs, titles, words, or phrases mentioned within this publication may be trademarks, service marks, or trade names of Macromedia, Inc. or other entities and may be registered in certain jurisdictions including internationally.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    About the Breeze Presenter workspace ........11...
  • Page 4 Managing the Breeze server publishing list ......84 Publishing to a Macromedia Breeze server ....... 86 Adding a Breeze Presenter presentation to a Breeze meeting .
  • Page 5 INTRODUCTION Breeze Presenter Quick Start Guide Macromedia Breeze Presenter has 10 demonstrations that you can watch to learn how to do important tasks. The demonstrations are short, about 1-2 minutes in length, and show tasks such as creating a new presentation, adding audio, and publishing a presentation to a Breeze server.
  • Page 6 Introduction: Breeze Presenter Quick Start Guide...

  • Page 7: Introduction: Welcome To Macromedia Breeze Presenter

    Breeze Presenter. Breeze Presenter sends the PowerPoint (PPT) and Pocket PC (PPC) files, as well as presentation data, to the Breeze server. Then, you can simply log on to the Breeze server and, using Breeze Manager, complete the publishing process by selecting permission and folder options.

  • Page 8: About Breeze Presenter

    61.) About Breeze Presenter projects and content There are many ways you can use Breeze Presenter. If you think creatively about new ways to work with Breeze, you can then publish even more engaging content using Breeze Presenter. Introduction: Welcome to Macromedia Breeze Presenter...
  • Page 9 Breeze Presentation themes You have full control over how your presentations look, including colors and fonts. You can use one of the themes included with Breeze Presenter, or create a custom theme for a distinctive look or to meet a specific objective.

  • Page 10: About Macromedia Breeze

    About creating online presentations You create your online presentations in Breeze Presenter first, and then publish the presentations to Breeze. Breeze Presenter can help you quickly and easily create presentations from your desktop PC by making it easy to do the following: •...

  • Page 11: About Breeze Presenter Instructional Media

    From the Breeze menu, select Help. (You can also click the Help button in any dialog box.) • The Quick Start movies provide an animated look at important tasks in Breeze Presenter. You can access the Quick Start movies from the Start page of Breeze Presenter Help.

  • Page 12: Installing Breeze Presenter

    Installing Breeze Presenter After you install Breeze Presenter, you can access all of its features in PowerPoint from the newly added Breeze menu. To install Macromedia Breeze Presenter on a Windows computer: After you have downloaded the application, double-click the Breeze Presenter EXE file to install the software.

  • Page 13: Chapter 1: Creating Presentations With Breeze Presenter

    Microsoft PowerPoint. You can access all Breeze Presenter authoring functions in PowerPoint by using the Breeze menu. About the Breeze Presenter workspace Macromedia designed Breeze Presenter for efficiency and ease of use. Breeze Presenter has the following two components that work together to help authors create and deliver high-quality content for users: Breeze Presenter enables authors to create content.

  • Page 14: Planning Breeze Presenter Presentations

    All of the options for designing a presentation are located in the Breeze menu in PowerPoint. Planning Breeze Presenter presentations Creating presentations with Breeze Presenter is fast and easy if you follow these basic steps. Plan your presentation using storyboards, scripts, or whatever organizational materials are appropriate.

  • Page 15: Breeze Presenter Best Practices

    (If you have slide notes written in PowerPoint, you can easily import them into Breeze Presenter to use as a script or as the basis of a script.) •...

  • Page 16: Creating Breeze Presenter Presentations

    Breeze Presenter presentations are always based on PowerPoint presentations. To create a new presentation, you open an existing PowerPoint presentation (or create a new one) and then add all of the features available in Breeze Presenter. For more information about how to add these features, see the appropriate chapter.
  • Page 17 Click Publish. When you publish, the following actions take place: By default, a new folder with the same name as the presentation is created and placed in your My Documents\My Breeze Presentations folder. The new folder contains all of the presentation files, and any audio, video, image, and attachment files that are part of the presentation.
  • Page 18 Chapter 1: Creating Presentations with Breeze Presenter...

  • Page 19: Chapter 2: Editing Breeze Presenter Presentations

    CHAPTER 2 Editing Breeze Presenter Presentations After you have created a presentation, you can use Breeze Presenter to edit your work quite easily. Normally, you will probably create a presentation, preview the presentation locally, edit the presentation to make it just right, and publish the presentation to Breeze.

  • Page 20: Changing Slide Properties

    Simply select a slide, hold down Shift or Control, and select additional slides. (The Navigation name, Go to Slide, or Video properties cannot be changed this way.) Using slide properties, you can change options for individual slides or a group of slides. Chapter 2: Editing Breeze Presenter Presentations...
  • Page 21 When part-time employees view the presentation, they can skip slides containing information for full-time employees. The Go to Slide option works the same whether the presentation is used within Macromedia Breeze or viewed locally in a web browser. Changing slide properties...
  • Page 22 To add video to a slide: In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file). From the Breeze menu, select Slide Properties. Select a slide and click Edit. Next to the Video text box, click Browse. Chapter 2: Editing Breeze Presenter Presentations...

  • Page 23: Adding And Editing Presenters

    Adding a new presenter profile In Breeze Presenter, you add presenter profiles to one central location. These profiles are stored and can be used in any presentations you create. To add a new presenter profile: In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file).
  • Page 24 In the Presenter pop-up menu, select a name from the list. Click OK. The presenter is now associated with all slides in the presentation. Click OK to apply your changes and close the Slide Properties dialog box. Chapter 2: Editing Breeze Presenter Presentations...

  • Page 25: Adding Attachments To Presentations

    Change properties such as the job title, e-mail address, or biography. Click OK to close the Presenter dialog box. Click Close to close the Breeze Presenter Preferences dialog box. Deleting a presenter You can delete a presenter and all corresponding information, such as the biography and e-mail address, at any time.
  • Page 26 Attachments are accessible to users when they view your presentation. An Attachments button appears on the bottom of the Breeze Presenter viewer. When the user clicks the Attachments button, a list of all of the attachments associated with the presentation is displayed. Users can click the individual attachment to open the file.
  • Page 27 For example, if the attachment is a spreadsheet created in Excel and you must change numbers in the spreadsheet, open the file in Excel and edit the numbers. After editing, add the attachment again in Breeze Presenter to incorporate the changes. To edit a presentation attachment: In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file).

  • Page 28: Using Animation, Image, And Flash (Swf) Files

    You can incorporate animations and Flash (SWF) files into your Breeze Presenter presentations. If you already have PowerPoint animations, such as flying or dissolving text, Breeze Presenter will convert those animations seamlessly and they will appear in your final presentation exactly as they appear in PowerPoint.
  • Page 29 Inserting Captivate files Macromedia Captivate is a software application that lets you create animated simulations and demonstrations. If you have Captivate projects, you can add them to your Breeze Presenter presentations. Certain types of Captivate projects, such as training demonstrations or software simulations, can be particularly useful in presentations.
  • Page 30 When you add a SWF file to a Breeze Presenter presentation, you can choose whether the added SWF file is controlled by the Breeze Presenter playbar or by a playbar in the original SWF file. For example, if you add a Macromedia Captivate demonstration SWF file to the presentation, the demonstration can be controlled by the Breeze Presenter playbar in the viewer or by the playbar that is in the Captivate demonstration.

  • Page 31: Chapter 3: Working With Audio

    In general, sound can be as individual and flexible as any other presentation component. You can use audio in Breeze Presenter presentations in a variety of ways. For example, Breeze Presenter can help you with the following tasks: •...

  • Page 32: About Audio Recording Equipment

    Select the audio file and click Open. Breeze Presenter adds the audio file to the selected slide. The name of the audio file appears in the File column and the length of the audio file appears in the Time column.

  • Page 33: About Recording Audio

    Recording software A wide range of recording software is available. Important software features include editing capabilities (to fix mistakes), music and sound-effect options, and the capability to create the file format you require (such as MP3 or WAV). An excellent, easy-to-use, and free application is called Audacity (available from http://audacity.sourceforge.net).

  • Page 34: Setting Audio Recording Quality

    The more you compress a sound and the lower the sampling rate, the smaller the file size and the lower the quality. Breeze Presenter lets you control the way sound is recorded and compressed based upon your input and output requirements.

  • Page 35: Changing The Audio Input Source

    Note: Breeze Presenter must be able to detect a recording device before trying to calibrate. Check that a microphone or recording device (such as a tape deck or stereo amplifier) that uses the line-in option is connected to your computer properly and is turned on before calibrating.

  • Page 36: Recording Audio

    To set the correct recording device level, speak the following sentence into the microphone until the red recording window becomes green: “I am setting my microphone recording level for use with Breeze Presenter.” When you finish, click OK. Recording audio If you have a microphone connected to your computer, you can record audio that you want to include for a slide.

  • Page 37: Exporting Scripts Into Powerpoint

    Click OK. Exporting scripts into PowerPoint If you have created or modified a script in Breeze Presenter in the Record Audio dialog box or the Synchronize Audio dialog box to use while working with audio, you can export the script into PowerPoint.

  • Page 38: Adjusting Audio Volume

    3. Click OK. Breeze Presenter adds the silent period to the audio file and displays it in waveform. To test the audio file with the silence added, click Play in the lower-left corner of the Audio Editor dialog box.

  • Page 39: Editing Audio Files

    (Optional) Click Advanced Controls. Ratio specifies the maximum amplification that Breeze Presenter will use. The default setting of 2.0 sets the quietest sections of the audio to be amplified by a factor of 2. A higher setting can improve a project that has large disparities between quiet and loud sections, but can also amplify background noise.

  • Page 40: Using The Audio Editor

    Clipboard. (For example, if you select a section of the audio file, and then click Cut or Copy, Breeze Presenter places the selected audio on the Clipboard. You can then click Paste to place the audio back into any location within the audio file.)

  • Page 41: Setting Audio Quality For A Presentation

    To change how audio files are distributed across slides: • In the Audio Editor, click a slide divider at the top of a red slide marker line and slide the divider to the left or right. The waveform remains static, but you can change where the audio file begins to play within the presentation.

  • Page 42: Previewing Audio

    Under Audio quality, select one of the following options: High results in the largest file size and highest quality audio. Medium is the best balance between file size and audio quality. results in the smallest file size and lowest audio quality. Publish Without Audio removes audio files from the presentation before publishing.

  • Page 43: Chapter 4 Adding Quizzes

    CHAPTER 4 Adding Quizzes You can use Macromedia Breeze Presenter to create interactive e-learning presentations that are SCORM or AICC compliant for use with a learning management system. Breeze Presenter lets you do the following tasks: • Add a variety of question types in presentations including multiple-choice, true or false, matching, rating scale (likert), fill-in-the-blank, and short answer.

  • Page 44: About Creating Quizzes And Questions

    Breeze. Using quizzes and their default Objective IDs is the best way to coordinate Breeze Presenter presentations with Breeze and content that already exists. The Quiz Manager lets you organize all of the quizzes and questions in a presentation.

  • Page 45: About Branching In Breeze Presenter Presentations

    Rating scale (Likert) Quizzing tricks and tips The quizzing functionality in Breeze Presenter is flexible and gives you many design options for creating presentations that include e-learning content. For example, quizzes can be simple and straightforward or more sophisticated with detailed branching. Here are a few tricks and tips to try when adding quizzes to your presentation.
  • Page 46 Select the Show Questions in Outline option only if you want the question slide name to appear in the outline when users see the presentation in the Breeze Presenter viewer. If you do not select this option, a single entry with the quiz name appears in the outline. This option is off by default.
  • Page 47 Users answer multiple-choice questions by selecting one or more correct answers from a list. In Breeze Presenter, multiple-choice questions can be branched based on the specific answers users select. For example, in a question with three possible answers, you can set up branching so that selecting the first answer goes to the next slide, the second answer jumps to a specific slide later in the quiz, and the third answer opens a web page.
  • Page 48 (Optional) From the Type pop-up menu, select question type: Graded or Survey. Select Show Clear Button to display a button on the question slide that users can click to clear their answers and start over. In the If Correct Answer area, set the following options: Action Select one of three actions to occur when a user selects the correct answer: Go to Next Slide advances the presentation to the next slide and is the default action.
  • Page 49 Objective ID This is a number automatically created when you create a quiz. This number is used to report scores from Breeze Presenter presentations that will be tracked in Breeze or a learning management system. Interaction ID Accept the default number or type a new number directly into the text box.
  • Page 50 In the Question Types dialog box, select True/False and do one of the following: If you want to create a true or false question that will be graded, click Create Graded Question. If you want to create a true or false survey question that will not be graded, click Create Survey Question.
  • Page 51 Play Audio Clip Select this option to import an audio file or record a new audio file that should play when the question is answered correctly. Use the Record, Stop, Remove, and Import buttons as necessary. (If you have already recorded audio, the record button will be a Play button.
  • Page 52 Users answer fill-in-the-blank questions by providing a word or phrase or selecting from a list of possible answers to fill in a blank space within a sentence. In Breeze Presenter, you can provide a list of words or phrases for users to choose from, or have users type in a word or phrase on their own.
  • Page 53 In the Description text box, accept the default text for Description or enter a new description. The description appears on the questions slide in the presentation and should provide users with instructions about how to answer the question. In the Points text box, type in (or use the up and down arrows to specify) the number of points allocated to this question.
  • Page 54 Play Audio Clip Select this option to import an audio file or record a new audio file that should play when the question is answered correctly. Use the Record, Stop, Remove, and Import buttons as necessary. (If you have already recorded audio, the record button will be a Play button.
  • Page 55 Objective ID This is a number automatically created when you create a quiz. This number is used to report scores from Breeze Presenter presentations that will be tracked in Breeze or a learning management system. Interaction ID Accept the default number or type a new number directly into the text box.
  • Page 56 In the Points text box, type in (or use the up and down arrows to specify) the number of points allocated to this question. Assigning points signifies the relative importance of a question. Assigning different point values to different questions lets you, for example, give introductory questions a lower value and advanced questions a higher value.
  • Page 57 Objective ID This is a number automatically created when you create a quiz. This number is used to report scores from Breeze Presenter presentations that will be tracked in Breeze or a learning management system. Interaction ID Accept the default number or type a new number directly into the text box.
  • Page 58 When you finish, click OK. Click OK again to close the Quiz Manager. The new short answer question slide appears in the designated location in the presentation. If you are using the short answer question as a graded essay question, you can grade the answer using the Breeze Manager override option.
  • Page 59 If you need to change the order of items in a column, select an item and then click the up or down arrow below the column to move the item up or down in the list. If you make an error while establishing the correct matches between column items, click Clear matches and start over.
  • Page 60 Objective ID This is a number automatically created when you create a quiz. This number is used to report scores from Breeze Presenter presentations that will be tracked in Breeze or a learning management system. Interaction ID Accept the default number or type a new number directly into the text box.
  • Page 61 Creating a rating scale (likert) question slide Users answer rating scale questions by specifying their level of agreement to a statement. For example, a user may be given the question, “This presentation provided me with valuable information.” and asked if they disagree, somewhat disagree, are neutral, somewhat agree, or agree.
  • Page 62 Objective ID This is a number automatically created when you create a quiz. This number is used to report scores from Breeze Presenter presentations that will be tracked in Breeze or a learning management system. Interaction ID Accept the default number or type a new number directly into the text box.

  • Page 63: Changing Question Slide Order

    The next time you open the Quiz Manager (from the Breeze menu), the question slide will not be listed. Setting reporting options Breeze Presenter offers output options for presentations with e-learning elements. For example, you can create presentations that are SCORM or AICC compliant for use within a learning management system.
  • Page 64 Select the main learning management system standard you want to use: Breeze AICC Note: If you select AICC, four course structure files are created. For more information, see “Editing AICC course structure files (CSF)” on page SCORM Note: If you select SCORM, click Manifest to set options for creating a manifest file, required by many third-party learning management systems.

  • Page 65: Setting An E-Learning Pass Rate For A Quiz

    Select how scores are reported to your learning management system. (If you selected the Report to Breeze option in step 6, settings in this Report score to LMS as area are ignored and all information is sent to Breeze.) Score specifies that scores are reported as a numerical score.

  • Page 66: Using Feedback Messages In Quizzes And Questions

    Setting how e-learning scores are displayed You can set the way the quiz score is reported to users. To set e-learning scoring display: In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file). From the Breeze menu, select Quiz Manager. In the Quiz Manager dialog box, select a quiz and click Edit Quiz Settings. Click on the Quiz Settings tab.

  • Page 67: About Using Breeze Presenter Presentations With A Learning Management System

    Click OK two times to close all of the dialog boxes. Breeze Presenter provides default text for feedback messages that are displayed for users, but you can edit the text at any time. The text is set at the quiz level so that all questions within a quiz display the same feedback messages.
  • Page 68 (Required) The title can be viewed by students using the LMS. A default title based on the name of your Breeze Presenter presentation is automatically added to this text box. You can change the title at any time by selecting the text and typing in new text.
  • Page 69 Click OK. To see the manifest file, you should publish your Breeze Presenter presentation locally to create a Flash SWF file and a manifest file. If you used the default save location, you can use Windows Explorer to navigate to the SWF file and imsmanifest.xml file in My Documents\My Breeze Presentations\Name of Presentation folder.
  • Page 70 Escape Version and Session ID This option is selected by default. Keep this option selected if you want Breeze Presenter to URL-encode (escape) the version and session ID when sending data to an AICC compliant learning management system. This is useful if your learning management system does not accept URL-encoded information for these fields.

  • Page 71: Chapter 5: Designing The Presentation Experience

    Working with themes in presentations The primary way to design how presentations appear in the Breeze Presenter viewer is through the use of themes. Themes serve as the “container” for your presentation, and let you add static images, colors, and sound to create dynamic and interactive presentations. You can add a theme at any time.

  • Page 72: Selecting A Presentation Theme

    Selecting a presentation theme The default theme assigned to presentations is Sage, but you can change the theme at any time. To select a presentation theme: In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file). From the Breeze menu, select Theme Editor. The Theme Editor dialog box appears.

  • Page 73: Changing Text Labels In A Theme

    Changing text labels in a theme Text labels are the words that appear in a theme, such as button text and tab names. You can edit text labels in a theme at any time. In this example, the pane text has been changed to Summary, Images, Comments, and Find. To change text labels in a theme: In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file).

  • Page 74: Changing Theme Colors

    Changing theme colors You can change the colors that appear in a theme, including the background color and glow color. You can also specify a background image to use in a theme. To change theme colors: In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file). From the Breeze menu, select Theme Editor.

  • Page 75: Showing And Hiding Panes In A Theme

    Showing and hiding panes in a theme Panes appear in the sidebar of a theme. The default location of the sidebar is on the right side, but the location can be changed. You can select which panes appear in the theme and which are hidden.

  • Page 76: Choosing A Location For The Sidebar

    To set a default theme pane: In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file). From the Breeze menu, select Theme Editor. The Theme Editor dialog box appears. From the Panes pop-up menu, select the pane that should appear by default when the presentation appears.

  • Page 77: Setting The Presentation To Appear In Full-Screen Mode

    Setting the presentation to appear in full-screen mode You can choose to have your presentation open normally or in full-screen mode. Normally, the presentation appears with the toolbar and the sidebar. As an alternative, you can have the presentation open in full-screen mode with only a small, modified toolbar appearing in the bottom right corner.

  • Page 78: Using Powerpoint Templates For Breeze Presenter

    For example, you might create a presentation in PowerPoint using the design template named Technology, add the red theme named Stop Sign in the Breeze Presenter Theme Editor, publish the presentation to Breeze, and view the presentation. You notice that the theme clashes with the slide background of the Technology design template.

  • Page 79: Adding A Logo

    (In PowerPoint, select Breeze menu > Publish. Select My Computer and click Publish.) Adding a logo You can add a custom logo to display in the Breeze Presenter viewer. This is great way to customize your presentations so they look like other multimedia and publications your organization produces.

  • Page 80: Including Slide Notes In Presentations

    You create slide notes in PowerPoint. Note: The notes appear in the Breeze Presenter viewer as unformatted text. Any formatting applied to notes in the PowerPoint note pane is ignored.
  • Page 81 Type note text directly into the notes area under the slide. (If you are in Normal view, but cannot see the notes area, it might be collapsed. Click the separator bar until the pointer changes to allow you to drag the separator bar. Drag up to display the notes area.) To view the notes area, move the mouse pointer over the separator bar until an equal sign with two arrows appears, then drag up.

  • Page 82: Automatically Playing A Presentation

    You can preview the notes by publishing your presentation locally, viewing the results, and clicking on the Slide Notes pane in the sidebar. (To publish locally, in PowerPoint, select Breeze menu > Publish. Select My Computer and click Publish.) This example shows PowerPoint slide notes in the Notes pane of the sidebar. Automatically playing a presentation You can set an option so that a presentation automatically plays when it’s opened, or you can require that a presenter or user click the Play button in the toolbar to start the presentation.

  • Page 83: Looping A Presentation

    Looping a presentation You can set your presentation to play once and then stop (the default setting), or to loop and replay continuously. To set the presentation to loop: In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file). From the Breeze menu, select Presentation Settings. Click the Settings tab.
  • Page 84 Chapter 5: Designing the Presentation Experience...

  • Page 85: Chapter 6: Working With Breeze Servers

    CHAPTER 6 Working with Breeze Servers For others to view your presentation, you must publish the presentation to a Macromedia Breeze server. Users can see your presentation in the viewer within Breeze Meeting, as part of a course or curriculum in Breeze Training, or with a URL provided by the Content library. The Breeze Presenter viewer delivers rich-media content in a powerful, interactive format.

  • Page 86: Accessing Your Breeze Account

    Managing the Breeze server publishing list Breeze Presenter provides you with an easy way to maintain a list of Breeze servers that you publish to regularly. You can add one or several Breeze servers to the publishing list. After a server has been added to the list, it’s easy and quick to publish to that server.
  • Page 87 To add a Breeze server to the publishing list: In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file). From the Breeze menu, select Preferences. Click the Breeze Server tab. Click the Add button. In the Name text box, enter a unique name for the server. (This is only used locally to help you distinguish between multiple servers easily.) In the URL text box, enter the exact URL address of the server.

  • Page 88: Publishing To A Macromedia Breeze Server

    Breeze server in your publishing list. (For more information, see “Managing the Breeze server publishing list” on page 84.) You can fully integrate Breeze Presenter presentations with Breeze so that, for example, presentations containing quizzes can have quiz results automatically sent to and managed by a Breeze serve.
  • Page 89 (To obtain permission to create and update presentations, contact your Breeze administrator.) To log in to Breeze: On the Macromedia Breeze Login screen, log in to Breeze using your login name (usually your account e-mail address). Enter your password.
  • Page 90 Entering presentation information The fourth step in publishing a presentation is to provide identification information about the presentation. You must specify a title for the presentation. You also have the option of adding a custom URL to view the presentation and a brief description. To specify presentation information: In the Content Information dialog box, enter a unique name for the presentation in the Title text box.

  • Page 91: Adding A Breeze Presenter Presentation To A Breeze Meeting

    Microsoft PowerPoint as a base. After you have published a Breeze Presenter presentation to Breeze, you can add the presentation to a Breeze meeting by bringing the presentation file into the meeting from the Content library or directly from your computer.
  • Page 92 Adding a presentation from your computer to a Breeze meeting If you have a Breeze Presenter presentation stored on your computer, you can add the presentation directly from that location into a Breeze Meeting. This is a good method to use if you need to place a presentation into a Breeze meeting, but the presentation has not been published to the Content library.

  • Page 93: Viewing A Presentation In A Breeze Meeting

    Note: If you upload your presentations directly from your computer and into a Breeze meeting, some Breeze Presenter presentation features, such as presenter photos and presenter logos, are not supported. Macromedia recommends adding presentations to Breeze Meeting from the Content library.

  • Page 94: Using The Presentation Outline Pane

    Presentation toolbar A control bar at the bottom of the presentation, which gives you control over the presentation playback, audio, attachments, and screen size. This published presentation includes the sidebar with panes on the right and the toolbar on the bottom. Using the presentation Outline pane Most presentations have an Outline pane on the sidebar.

  • Page 95: Using The Presentation Thumb Pane

    Note: If you upload your presentations directly from your computer and into a Breeze meeting, the Thumb pane is not displayed. Macromedia recommends adding presentations to Breeze Meeting from the Content library.

  • Page 96: Using The Presentation Search Feature

    When slide notes appear, they are located on the right side of the presentation window. You cannot change the size of the slide Notes pane. To view slide notes: • Click the Notes pane in the sidebar on the right side. The Notes pane contains the following features: The complete notes text is displayed.

  • Page 97: Using The Presentation Toolbar

    To toggle between viewing modes: Click the Full Screen button at the bottom of the Breeze Presenter viewer. If the presentation outline was originally visible, the Breeze Presentation switches to full-screen mode without a presentation sidebar.

  • Page 98: Navigating Between Slides

    You can navigate between slides during playback by using either the presentation toolbar, or the presentation Outline or Thumb pane. Note: The Outline pane and Thumb pane are optional. Set panes for presentations using the Theme Editor in Breeze Presenter. To move to the previous slide by using the presentation toolbar: •...

  • Page 99: Viewing A Presentation In Breeze Training

    Breeze generate exportable files in CSV format for import into CRM and other systems. Note: If you want to use an existing Breeze Presenter presentation as an event, it is important to rename the presentation and republish the presentation to a different location and different folder in the Breeze Content library.

  • Page 100: Using Presentations With Third-Party Learning Management Systems (Lms)

    Using presentations with third-party learning management systems (LMS) Breeze Presenter lets you use presentations with any SCORM or AICC compliant LMS. Use the Reporting tab in the Breeze Presenter Quiz Manager to choose the correct reporting settings for the LMS and to create a content package that can be uploaded to the LMS.

  • Page 101: Chapter 7: Troubleshooting

    Controlling inserted SWF files If you added a SWF file to a presentation, but are having trouble using the Breeze Presenter playbar (Stop, Pause, Play, or other buttons) to control the SWF file in the viewer, you may need to change a setting.
  • Page 102 Select the Controlled by Presentation Playbar option. You will now be able to control the selected Flash file by using the Breeze Presenter playbar in the published presentation. Click OK. Chapter 7: Troubleshooting...

  • Page 103: Index

    28, 99 timing 38 copyright slide 13 volume 36, 97 customer support 84 auto-playing presentations 80 designing presentations 13, 69 background, presentations 76 documentation for Breeze Presenter 9 branching quizzes 43 documents, attaching 24 Breeze about 8 Content library 89...
  • Page 104 75, 95 narration. See Audio navigation name, slide 19 notes, slide 34, 78 Go to Side option 19 online help for Breeze Presenter 9 headphones, recording audio with 30 opening slides 13 help, for Breeze Presenter 9 outline pane 19...
  • Page 105 23 tips 31 previewing requirements, system 9 audio 40 Resource Center, Breeze 9 presentations 14 resources, Breeze Presenter 9 product support 84 resume data, learning management systems 67 properties, slides 19 publishing Breeze servers list 84 SCORM 41, 61...
  • Page 106 theme location 74 selecting 70 video files 20 sidebar location 74 skipping slides 19 text labels 71 slide notes 34, 78 Thumb pane 19, 93 slide notes, viewing in a presentation 93 timing slides audio and animations 26 advancing by user 21 slides 81 background 76 title slide 13...

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