Adding Slides to an Existing Carousel

HorizonLive content consists of “slides” that you use during your live event. Slides can be PowerPoint slides, graphic files, web sites, or HTML files.

Topics:

  1. Step 1: Adding slides to a carousel.
  2. Uploading slides or new content to a carousel.
  3. Adding a URL to a carousel.
  4. Creating and adding Polling Questions to a carousel.

 

Step 1: To Add Slides to a Carousel:

Once you are in your course, click the name of the carousel to which you would like to add slides. The first time you open a carousel, a message displays telling you the carousel is empty.

OR

If there are already slides in the Carousel, click the New Slides icon. The Add Content page opens. The Add Content page looks the same as the page below:

 

To Upload Slides (New Content) to a Carousel

1. Following Step 1 (at top of page), in the “Upload New Content” field, click Browse . . . to search on your hard drive or a network for the file you would like to add.

Note: Multiple files (excluding PowerPoint presentations) must be “zipped” using the WinZip compression utility.

2. Once you've found the file you wish to upload, click Add.

Note: By default, content is set to display in eBoard. Only PowerPoint slides and image files can display in eBoard. Clear the check box if you do not want the content to display in eBoard.

The new content is uploaded to the HorizonLive Server and you are returned to the slide list page (see bottom of page).

 

To Add a URL to a Carousel

1. Following Step 1 (at top of page), in the “Add a URL” field, type a URL address. Note that the web site cannot be displayed in eBoard.

2. Click Add New Content. The new content is uploaded to the HorizonLive Server and you are returned to the slide list page.

Note: When you upload a PowerPoint presentation, each PowerPoint slide is converted to an individual HorizonLive slide, the slides are numbered, and name of the each PowerPoint slide automatically becomes the name of the HorizonLive slide.

The new content is uploaded to the HorizonLive Server and you are returned to the slide list page (see bottom of page).

 

To Create and Add a Polling Question to a Carousel

1. Following Step 1 (at top of page), in the “Create New Poll” field, either choose Multiple Choice, Open Ended, Questionaire, or Bullet List.

Note: The text box to the right of your selected question type produces a description of that type of question.

2. Once a question type is selected, click Create. The Create Polling Questions window opens.

Here you may add whatever question you would like to ask as well as include the answers from which your participants can choose:

2. When finished inputting your question and answers, click the Save Changes button.

The new content is uploaded to the HorizonLive Server and you are returned to the slide list page (next section).

 

Success! (The Slide List)

For all of the above actions, if the new content is successfully added to the HorizonLive Server, you are returned to the slide list page:

Note: To add additional slides (of any type) to a carousel simply repeat any of the above steps for that carousel.

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