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Now that you have published your presentation through PowerPoint, you can make your content available to view online through a web browser. By using web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari, presentations can be downloaded and placed in a website or linked in Blackboard.

Your zipped presentation is now ready to be placed on a website or placed on BlackBoard for student access.

Converting .zip files to .exe

Opening the Adobe Presenter zip file can be rather confusing, since it contains many different files inside. To make things easier for your students, we recommend that you convert the .zip into an .exe file so that the presentation will open automatically.

Before beginning, all of the contents you want in the .exe file must be located in a .zip file somewhere on your hard drive. To do this, use a program such as Winzip to zip up the files, or publish the presentation as a .zip file through the Adobe Presenter publishing menu in PowerPoint.

You can download and install Zip 2 Secure from this link.

1. Open ZIP 2 Secure EXE
2. Click the Browse button next to the text box under “Create self-extracting EXE from:”
3. Browse to the .zip file which you want to convert to a self-extracting (.exe) file.
4. To have the presentation execute upon extracting the file, enter “index.htm” into the text box below “Run this program after unzipping:”
5. Select/check the box next to “Build an EXE that automatically unzips to a temporary directory.”
6. Click the Create button. You will now be able to view your file.

Uploading Zipped Presentation to Blackboard

Begin by opening your browser and navigating to Blackboard. Log into Blackboard by entering your PID and password. You will then choose the course that you are adding your presentation, as well as the location inside the course. For this example, we will add this presentation as a New Item in the Assignments section.

Next, we will name the presentation and give it a brief description.

This next step is one of the two crucial stages that may be new to some users. First, we must browse to the zipped presentation that we have just published in Adobe Presenter. Click Browse to navigate to the .zip file. In this case, the example file is called "PresentationName.zip". Next, we will name the file. Again, we will call this example file "Lesson01". The final part of this step is most important. From the drop-down menu, select "Unpackage this file." Doing so will allow Blackboard to search inside the zipped file and lead you to the second and other crucial stage.

But before we move forward, you know have an opportunity to select the release and available duration of this presentation. Most choose the defaults and for our purposes, we will just leave this section alone. Click Submit to move forward.

This is the second crucial stage--Selecting the entry point of the zipped presentation. Each and every time you add a presentation, you will select index.htm as the entry point for your presentation. After selecting the entry point (index.htm), you can now click Submit.

Blackboard will confirm the success of your action, and upon clicking OK you will be taken back to the BlackBoard course folder you just added the item to.

You may now return to the Contents or proceed to the advanced section on Importing Audio.