Content365 Authoring: create a course based on a presentation

Introduction

Catalog admins can convert a structured presentation into a course. The content from the presentation is transformed into course content, word for word.

This method is ideal where you want to retain the exact wording in a presentation, such as product training, legal or policy overviews, or presentations that have gone through multiple stakeholder reviews. Images are also preserved. By converting a presentation, you can turn this finalized content into a course without rewriting or reformatting the core information, ensuring consistency across teams and learners.

The formatting options available in Content365 Authoring differ from those in PowerPoint or Google Slides. While your text and images are retained, the layout might not exactly match your original slides, particularly for complex slide designs.

Create a course from a presentation

Required role: catalog admin. Course admin can edit and manage the course after it's imported into Learn365.

1. Go to the Learn365 Admin Center > Training Management. The Training Management page opens.

2. Select Content365 Authoring. The Import Content365 Authoring courses panel opens.

3. Select Convert a presentation. The Create Course panel opens.

4. Under Convert a presentation, select the presentation.

You can select any of the following file types:

• PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)
• Keynote presentation file (.key)

To select the relevant presentation, you can:

• Select Add file then browse to and select your file.
• Drag and drop your presentation into the upload area.

You can upload a presentation up to 2.5 GB in size.

5. If your presentation contains a large number of slides, you'll be asked if you want to choose a smaller presentation to help present a more manageable and engaging learning experience.

• Select Upload a presentation with fewer slides then choose a different presentation.
• Select Continue with my presentation to continue with the selected presentation.

6. If your presentation contains images, you'll be asked if you want to incorporate them into your course. If your presentation doesn't contain images, go to step 7.

• Select Yes, incorporate images into my course then choose the images you want to add. Alternatively, choose Select all. Select Import images.
• Select No thanks, take me to the next step to disregard the images.

7. Select Create course.

The course builds on the Create Course panel.

8. When the course is built, you can set the Preview toggle to On, so you can navigate through the screens to see what your new course would look like to your learners. We advise you to look around the course, check the course content, and so on.

9. Now that you've generated a course, you can edit the content, change the layout, add screens to your course, perhaps add a quiz, and so on, before importing it into Learn365.

• For information about how to add screens to your Content365 Authoring course, see this article.
• For information about how to import Content365 Authoring courses into Learn365, see this article.

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