Saving a PowerPoint as a Rich Text Outline

There is no guarantee that all of your students will use or have PowerPoint so it's best to provide for those who do, and don't. For those who don't have Powerpoint it can be very frustrating to not have access to course content. This easy guide will prevent this frustration and show you a best practice for placing PowerPoint files in your course. The basic rule is when you upload a PowerPoint to your course, upload an alternate and more universal format of the file that will cover students who don't have PowerPoint!

Creating the file

1. First of all, open your PowerPoint file.
2. Next, in PowerPoint go to "File" then "Save As". This is how you tell PowerPoint what you want to save the PowerPoint file as. You can save in various formats and the format we'll use here is .RTF or "Rich Text Format".
3. In the "Save As" menu, click the dropdown menu at the bottom of the window titled "Save as type". Scroll down this menu until you find "Outline/RTF". It will be about the second to last selection in the list - click this selection.
4. Now, click Save. The result of this operation is that you now have your original PowerPoint file AND you now have an RTF outline of the original PowerPoint file. This version won't contain pictures but will contain all other text and formatting you authored in the original PowerPoint . RTF is a great format to use because all word processors can read it. Thanks to this universality, you now have a document that you can provide to students who don't have PowerPoint .

Uploading the 2 files

5. Now that you have two files, you'll need to put them up in ANGEL. Locate and enter your course and navigate to the spot you would like to place these files. It is recommended you label your files accordingly - "PowerPoint version" "Non-PowerPoint/printer friendly version". This will tell your learners which file is which and will make it easy for each group of students (powerpointers and non-powerpointers) to locate the file associated with their setup.
6. Using Add Content and Add a File you can upload the first file to it's destination. Use this method to upload the second file as well.
7. Now that you have uploaded the files, it is good practice to situate the files near or over/under each other in the list of files in a folder. Another method is to put the two files in their own folder. The choice is up to you.