PowerPoint and Blackboard

[Guest]

I created and uploaded a PowerPoint slide show on to Blackboard for my students to view, however they are unable to do so. The file should be displayed as a Read-Only file to them but when they click on the ppt link nothing happens, the slide show never loads for them to view. Does anyone have any suggestions or comments on this situation?

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

Is there a link you can post for us to look at?

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I created and uploaded a PowerPoint slide show on to Blackboard for my

students to view, however they are unable to do so. The file should be
displayed as a Read-Only file to them but when they click on the ppt link
nothing happens, the slide show never loads for them to view. Does anyone
have any suggestions or comments on this situation?

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry that I'm not using blackboard at my current university
But I was using Blackboard last year, and I did post PPT slide
"sucessfully" on it then, so it can be done
There were a few problems - mostly with animation - and I'
guessing this was because the students did not have th
2002 version of PPT on their computers. You might tr
something with the 2003 viewer, but it wasn't available at th
time
I believe BBoard has a straight-forward "bulletin board" function, s
my suggestion is just to post your slides there and tell student
how to download the viewer from microsoft. Somebody reading thi
probably has the address at the tip of their keyboard.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I created and uploaded a PowerPoint slide show on to Blackboard for my students

to view, however they are unable to do so. The file should be displayed as a
Read-Only file to them but when they click on the ppt link nothing happens, the
slide show never loads for them to view. Does anyone have any suggestions or
comments on this situation?

Do the students who're having problems with this have PowerPoint or the free
viewer installed? Unless they have one or the other, they won't be able to view
the presentation.

I'm not a Blackboard user, but another thought occurs to me: if the file's
read-only, does that mean that they're prohibited from downloading it? If so,
they won't be able to view it, since the browser has to first download the file in
order to display it.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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