By everyone I mean all pupils and teachers—whether or not they have MS Office or OpenOffice! We're going to open up Liz's New Orleans PowerPoint slideshow, save it in Flash format, and then upload it into Moodle. Let's learn how it is done.
1. Open up PowerPoint and open the presentation that you want to convert.
2. In the toolbar at the top, click on Publish.
3. On the next screen, select or deselect the Start presentation automatically option according to your wish.
4. Click on the Publish button again.
We've just converted a regular PowerPoint to a fancy Flash movie that will work on all of our pupils' computers! Having downloaded and installed the iSpring program, we simply needed to open up our presentation and publish it into Flash format. You'll find that no matter which format your new file is initially saved in, it will end up in the .swf
format. That's yet another file extension, and it tells us that...