Whether you are new to recording videos or an established pro, consider using PowerPoint with the Office Mix add-in to create engaging, interactive videos. Office Mix can be used to enhance existing PowerPoint templates or you can create something from scratch. Either way, you can use a familiar classroom technology tool to flip your classroom or enhance your online courses.
Office Mix lets the technology novice or guru easily add audio, video, screenshots, or web links to any PowerPoint presentation. You can also annotate your slides as you record.
Are you concerned about recording a video in one setting? No problem, Office Mix lets you start and stop the recording at any time, preview what you previously recorded, delete what you don’t like, and re-record any slide you desire.
Do you want to change slide information for a later semester? This is easy to do as well. Office Mix lets you modify previous recordings, and upload the revised version without changing the URL.
Office Mix also makes assessment easy. With a click of a button, you can add assessments, such as quizzes, anyplace in your PowerPoint deck. This lets you replicate your classroom’s interactive environment with a pre-recorded video lesson.
The data analytic tools in Office Mix provides the instructor with extensive information about the course. Available data includes (1) which students viewed your “Mix”, (2) how much time students spend on each slide, (3) the average attempts per question, (4) the average hints used, (5) the percentage of students who correctly answered questions, (6) responses by student, (7) the most watched slides, (8) which student(s) didn’t watch the video to completion, and (9) data comparisons between class averages and individual students. The data analytical tools can provide numerical output in Excel as well as visual output utilizing graphs and charts.
In addition to Office Mix making video creation and assessment easy, it makes sharing your interactive video lessons simple as well. Within minutes you can upload your video to the Office Mix MyMixes web portal by logging into your Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or Office 365 account. You can also share the video URL by email or embed it into your Learning Management System or website.
If you have privacy or security concerns, Office Mix works much like YouTube. You can easily control the privacy settings for the recording. Privacy settings include, private (only you can view your video), unlisted (share the URL to view) or public (anyone can find and view your video). Office Mix allows you to easily inventory and retrieve your videos by title, description, category, and tags.
Concerned about closed captioning? Good news! Closed captioning is available as well. Simply use the PowerPoint closed captioning tools available in the 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007 versions.
Whether you want to flip your classroom, enhance an online course or provide students with a free, project creation and presentation technology tool, Office Mix may just be the thing you are looking for.
To learn more about Office Mix or to download this PowerPoint add-in so you can try it today, visit https://mix.office.com/en-us/education.
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Effective May 1, 2018, Office Mix will no longer be available. Microsoft has provided the following statement: “On May 1, 2018, Office Mix Preview accounts will no longer be accessible. Mixes migrated to Microsoft Stream will not include any interactive content such as analytics data, quizzes or apps. if you do not have access to Stream, you can save your Mixes as PowerPoint files (.pptx), and your analytics data as Excel files (.xlsx) to your device or a file storage location of your choice at any time before May 1, 2018.)
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