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About Adobe Presenter 6

Adobe Presenter 6 enables you to use Microsoft PowerPoint (Windows only) to turn PowerPoint presentations into on-demand web presentations. Web presentations created with Adobe Presenter are delivered over the Internet through a supported web browser with the Flash player installed as an add-in. They can include audio, Flash video (FLV format), Flash files (SWF), images (JPEG files), synchronized animations, Captivate files, and interactive quizzes and surveys. Adobe Presenter can also be used to create presentations for delivery through CD-ROM and is SCORM compliant.

Get Presenter
Adobe Presenter 6 is a part of UMConnect and is available for download once you initiate your University of Minnesota UMConnect account. For more information on eligibility for UMConnect accounts and where to download Adobe Presenter 6, please see Get UMConnect .

Features of Adobe Presenter
After Adobe Presenter 6 has been downloaded and installed, an Adobe Presenter menu is added to PowerPoint. From this menu, you can access the following features:

Publish - Upload your presentation from your desktop PC to the UMConnect server, where it is converted to the Flash format for on-demand delivery over the web. Presentations can also be published locally and hosted on a web site or a Learning Management System (LMS), such as WebVista and Moodle, or they can be distributed on a CD-ROM.

Presentation Settings - Set options for the presentation such as the title, content summary, playback settings, add attachments and control the playback of embedded Flash files.

Record Audio – Record your own voice-over narration for the slides in your presentation and synchronize animations with the audio you record

Import Audio - Import and optionally compress an existing audio file (in MP3 or WAV format) into your presentation.

Synchronize Audio – Synchronize animations to the audio in your presentation.

Audio Editor – Edit audio within your presentation.

Quiz Manager – Add and manage quizzes and questions in your presentation and set how the presentation will report results to UMConnect or a separate LMS.

Insert Flash – Insert Flash files (SWF) created in applications such as Adobe Flash or Captivate.

Slide Properties – View and edit properties, such as title and speaker information, for each individual slide in your presentation.

Theme Editor – View and change options for the presentation viewer or create your own custom themes for your presentations.

Preferences – Set presenter information, image and audio quality, set the UMConnect server information for publishing, and select the source for recording audio.

Manage Account – Access your UMConnect content and meetings.

Help – Get help with Adobe Presenter.

About Adobe Presenter – Provides information on what version of Adobe Presenter you have installed.

Adobe Presenter Only Available for the PC
Adobe Presenter 6 is only available for PowerPoint for the PC (Microsoft PowerPoint 97, 2000, 20002, 2003, 2007).

Adobe Presenter and Accessibility
Adobe Presenter can be used to create accessible online presentations. Accessible Online Presentations with Macromedia Breeze Presenter is a design guide that can be used to create accesible presentations using both Breeze Presenter 5.1 and Adobe Presenter 6. For additional information on the accessibility of Adobe products, please see Adobe's Accessibility Resource Center.