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I teach an online course that includes many large PowerPoint files. Our
university utilizes Blackboard course management system. Students who are
modem users indicate difficulty in downloading and viewing them. What
suggestions do you have?
 
One of the first things I would check was if there were a way to shrink the
size of the files. Check the ideas in this entry from Steve Rindsberg's PPT
FAQ and see if any of them help:
Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm

If that doesn't help enough, try splitting the presentations into separate
files. It won't reduce the time for the total download, but it will let the
students only download what they need, when they need it.

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Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived
 
You can use the PowerPoint Compress Pictures tool (in your picture tool bar)
to help reduce the size of the file. If that is not sufficient try NXPowerLite
 
Julieanne said:
I teach an online course that includes many large PowerPoint files. Our
university utilizes Blackboard course management system. Students who are
modem users indicate difficulty in downloading and viewing them. What
suggestions do you have?
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Another possibility is converting the presentations to HTML. If the
presentations depend heavily on animations and media files, that's probably a
non-starter but if they're more basic content, it can simplify life. The
overall download burden can be smaller and it's broken up slide by slide, so
the user doesn't have to wait for the whole thing to come down the pipe before
they can view it.

Also they don't need PPT to view the presentations. A browser and they're good
to go.

PPT's own HTML may or my not integrate well into systems like Blackboard ... I
don't have access to it for testing. Our PPT2HTML addin
(http://ppt2html.pptools.com) produces html that should work nicely with it.

It can also be set to produce files that download the image for slide 2 while
the user's viewing slide 1 and so on; slide changes, even for a dialup user,
can be very quick.
 
Steve--Thanks a bunch! I'll work on those suggestions this morning!
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