Hey everybody!
It’s Brian from iSpring, and in this video, I’m gonna give you a big-picture overview
of iSpring Suite 9, the authoring powerhouse that lets you turn your PowerPoint presentations
into full-fledged e-Learning courses .
Right here from the iSpring Suite toolbar, you can enhance your slides with audio, video,
quizzes, interactions, dialogue simulations, and screencasts, plus tons of content from
the iSpring Content Library.
Now let’s see how to build your first course with iSpring Suite.
Follow the steps in this video and you’ll know how to get started.
When you open iSpring Suite, you’ll see a quick start window which is like your e-Learning
command center.
From here, you can create standalone quizzes, interactions, dialogue simulations, and screencasts,
or an entire course right in PowerPoint.
You can start fresh with a new course, or open a recent project right over here.
And here we are in the familiar PowerPoint interface, with all the functions available
on the iSpring Suite ribbon.
They’re all divided into groups to help you enrich your course with content.
To add audio narration to your course, just click Record Audio, and a small recording
panel will pop up.
When you’re done recording, click OK, and you’ll return to the course.
The process works the same for recording video, and you can manage your narration clips and
timings in the Narration Editor.
OK, now let’s get started adding some real content.
I’m just gonna scroll down here to the end of the course and insert a new slide, then
copy it a few times, because each of these learning objects needs to be on its own slide.
First, let’s add a quiz.
Again, you can create a new graded quiz or survey, or open a recent quiz right over here.
Up here in the question menu, choose from 14 different question types for a graded quiz,
and then it’s super easy to edit your questions, answer choices, and feedback.
Then, over here in Slide View mode, you can add all kinds of extra stuff like pictures,
shapes, video, audio, characters, and much more.
Now, let’s go back here and click Save and Return to Course.
A placeholder for your quiz will appear on the slide, and this is how it works for all
the other learning objects as well.
Now, let’s go to the next blank slide and add an interaction.
You can choose from 12 different interaction templates to present information, like an
accordion, a guided image, a media catalog, and much more.
Lemme go back here and show you this Media Catalog about cheese.
It’s super easy to enter your text and format it with the full-featured editor, and insert
media from this tab.
The Preview button shows you what the final interaction will look like, so you can give
it a test drive.
Now let’s go back to the main tab, and save and return to the course.
OK, now it’s time to swing on down to the next slide, and add a dialogue simulation.
Again, I’m just gonna open up a recent simulation to show you what it looks like.
You can add new scenes with this button up here, then edit the character speech and reply
choices in each scene.
Plus, you can choose a character and background from the Images tab right here.
With this simple process, you can create a rich, interactive story that helps your employees
learn to navigate social situations on the job.
And, once again, let’s save and return to the course.
Alrighty, now let’s hop over to the next blank slide and add a screen recording.
Just create a new recording right here, and then you can choose to record your screen,
webcam, or both.
Set a recording area and video size, then pick a microphone, and go ahead and start
recording.
During the countdown, you’ll see the keyboard shortcut to stop the recording, and then you
can go ahead and press it when you’re done.
Then, the recorded clips will show up on the timeline in the video editor, and you can
see the preview right here in the middle.
Then, you can add more pre-recorded videos, audio, images, text, and shapes, plus add
smooth transitions between the clips.
When you’re done, click Save and Return.
Now, let’s have a quick look at the Content Library.
From here, you have access to over 50,000 assets, including complete slide templates,
characters, backgrounds, objects, and icons.
For example, lemme show you the character library.
Here, you can choose from dozens of different people from all walks of life, and narrow
down your search from the search bar, or using the criteria on the left.
These poses can be further narrowed down with the other criteria on the left, and you can
add an image just by double-clicking it.
Then it acts just like any other PowerPoint object, and you can crop it, resize it, and
move it around.
Alright, here’s my favorite part: it’s time to publish this course for the web!
Click the Publish button, and then you can choose your destination.
You can put it on your computer for uploading and sharing later, or publish directly to
iSpring Cloud hosting service or iSpring Learn LMS.
If you already have your own LMS, select this option, and if it’s a video course, you
can publish it right to YouTube in a couple of clicks.
Also, the publishing options here in version 9 are just as powerful but much simpler to
choose from.
You can choose the course player, size, quality, protection settings, and the slides to publish,
and then go ahead and click the Publish button when you’re ready.
It shouldn’t take too long to publish, but if you have a lot of audio and video in your
course, you may wanna grab a cup of coffee.
After that, the preview window will open, and you can give your course one final quality
check, and see how it looks on different devices.
Thanks for watching!
If you want to find out more about any of the components I showed you in this Gettings
Started video, stay tuned for more tutorials at iSpringSolutions.com!