Tweet Create rich interactive lessons with Microsoft Office-MIX

Microsoft is quickly changing and adapting to rapidly changing user behavior and requirements. Last year saw two products from Mircosoft, Sway (competes with Prezi) and Office-Mix (competes with Adobe Presenter, Articulate) launched possibly to save people from death by PowerPoint.

Microsoft Office-Mix is a free PowerPoint Add-in that lets you tell your story with audio, video, annotations, screen recording and interactive element. It helps educators create interactive lessons with slides, media, quizzes and polls. In addition to all these cool features which are otherwise paid in other such Add-ins, Office-Mix provides rich analytics and online sharing.


Though Sway and Office-Mix both are not a new idea, yet it is surely going to be a bliss for educators who will not have to rely on paid software for creation of interactive synchronized lessons. Here is a Mix explaining open number lines-

Tweet Free PowerPoint add-in to record lectures for flipped classroom and courses

WizIQ, an education platform that connects teachers and students online has released a free PowerPoint add-in called WizIQ Recordor. WizIQ Recordor lets teachers create video lectures (MP4) for offline consumption by students. Teachers can record their live audio along with PowerPoint slides and can either share video link with their students or add the video to their online course.

Recordor is an easy-to-use authoring tool that creates synchronized video lectures. The only disadvantage it has is that teachers can only record their audio and not their video(from webcam) or any pre-recorded audio or video file. Adding a functionality to let teachers sync any audio or video file with slides to create a synchronized video lecture would be a great thing to do since this functionality is missing in PowerPoint as well.


 

Tweet authorSTREAM launches lead capture and organization plans

Presentation sharing platform authorSTREAM, yesterday rolled out new pro plans targeted at enterprise customers. Team and Enterprise  plan would enable small and large organizations to set up their corporate teams on authorSTREAM .The plans provide organizations with better user management, greater control over their content, flexibility to expand team, easier collaboration amongst members and secured sharing.

 

Once an admin sets up the team account, he/she can add new users to his/her team or invite already existing authorSTREAM members to join the team. Each team member gets an individual premium business account with features like unlimited private uploads, unlimited HD video conversions, lead capture, passcode protection, advanced Presentation Analytics, branded embeds, sharing within team and more.

 

authorSTREAM also introduced Lead Capture for all premium plans: Pro, Business, Team and Enterprise. Lead Capturing feature enabling individuals and organizations to generate qualified business leads from their presentations

 

Users can now publish a customized lead capture form on their presentations and also run multiple lead campaigns simultaneously.

 

The platform recently supported direct uploading and sharing of Apple Keynote files and announced that it’s working on supporting more presentation formats.

Given the fact that SlideShare is no more accepting new sign-up for their Pro plans, authorSTREAM's new offering along with lead capturing feature can be a big relief for presentation professionals looking for such service.