Articulate Presenter

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Introduction

Articulate Presenter converts a PowerPoint presentation into a Web-ready Flash presentation. You may include audio with the presentation. View the instructions on how to narrate a PowerPoint presentation to learn more about preparing your PowerPoint for Articulate Presenter.

These instructions require that Articulate Presenter is installed on your computer. The Distance and Extended Education (DEE) lab has a machine with Articulate Presenter Pro '09 installed. The DEE lab is located on the UI Moscow Campus, Education Building, room 208.

Be sure to check out the current known issues with Articulate Presenter:

Sample Articulate Presentation



The Age of Humans 15:41 min

Open a Presentation in PowerPoint

  • Open the PowerPoint file you wish.
  • Select the Articulate menu, then Publish...

Articulate Tab > Publish

Publish PowerPoint with Articulate

  • Change the Published Title to what you want.
  • Set Player Template to DEE Lab Default if you are in our lab.
    • Note: If you are not using Articulate in the DEE lab, you may customize the template under Articulate > Player Template Builder.
  • Press the Publish button. This will create all the files necessary to make the Flash presentation work.

Articulate Publish

Add Presentation to your Web Site

 
BlackboardBlackboard CE8 Users

All other Web Sites

  • Import the data folder, player folder,  launcher.html and player.html file into your Web site.
  • Build a hyperlink in your Web site to the launcher.html file to give users access to the presentation.

    NOTE: If you don't want the presentation to launch in a new window, link to the player.html file.

Import data & player folders, player & launcher files

If you are experiencing problems getting your presentations to play after uploading them to your Web site, check out the current known issues with Articulate Presenter for additional troubleshooting help.

Contact a DEE staff member if you need help with this step.

Purchasing Articulate

Articulate Presenter Details:

Articulate Presenter 

FrontPage Conflict

There is a known conflict that occurs between Articulate content and the UI FrontPage server. If you converted your files in the DEE lab, your Articulate files will already be fixed.

Problem Description: This issue prevents Articulates' content from loading correctly. When the content is loaded from a browser, the page comes up blank.

Fix:  The fix for this requires modification of two documents located in C:\Program Files\Articulate\.

Changes required to Articulate to make its output work on the UI FrontPage server

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Articulate\Presenter\players\core

  • Edit the player.html file in Notepad.
  • Change 'flashcommand.js' reference to 'flashscripts.js'
  • Save changes.

2. Go to C:\Program Files\Articulate\Presenter\players\core\player

  • Rename 'flashcommand.js' filename to 'flashscripts.js'

Flash Player 10 Issue

Articulate presentations unable to load with Flash Player 10
If you have been publishing presentations using Articulate Presenter 5, they will no longer load when viewed with the new Flash Player 10 released 10/15/08. To fix this problem, download and use the Articulate Updater for Adobe Flash Player 10 to update the Articulate Presenter installation on your computer and fix each Articulate presentation file being distributed.

To run Articulate Updater for Flash Player 10:

  1.  Download the Articulate Updater for Adobe Flash Player 10 from:
    http://www.articulate.com/downloads/full/presenter/flash10-updater/f10updater.exe
  2. Install the Articulate Updater for Adobe Flash Player 10
  3. Run the Articulate Updater for Adobe Flash Player 10
  4. Re-run the Articulate Updater for Adobe Flash Player 10 again whenever you locate presentation files that still need the fix applied to them