1. Blackboard: Sharing
your presentations
with Slideshare
Lim Gaik Bee
Teaching and Learning Centre
Ngee Ann Polytechnic

2. What is SlideShare?
• SlideShare is a media website that allows you to upload
your slideshow presentations
• There is a free basic account and different ‘pro’ accounts
which require a subscription
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3. Why use Slideshare?
• Students can view the slideshow in Blackboard without
having to download the powerpoint file
• Files up to 100 MB can be uploaded
• You can also add narration to your presentation as well as
hyperlinks to websites
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4. Considerations
• You have to have an account with Slideshare
• With the free account, what you upload is available to the
public
• Animations and action buttons on your powerpoint do not
work, other than hyperlinks to websites
• This means that it is not ‘interactive’ in terms of students
controlling the nagivation
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5. I want to try it out!
• You can sign up for a free account. However, note that your
presentations are publicly available
• You also need an account if you want to download
presentations uploaded by other people
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Click here!

6. Adding the SlideShare
presentation to Blackboard
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7. Find your presentation
• You can find your presentation using full text, tags or urls
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8. Using other Slideshare
presentations
• If searching for other presentations, you can preview
before selecting
• Check the permissions – ‘all rights reserved’, Creative
Commons etc
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9. Options
• Thumbnail will show as full size when View Link is clicked.
• Embed Presentation will show the presentation player directly
in the page.
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10. Adding narration to the
Slideshare presentation
• You can add narration to
your presentations
• Upload as mp3 file
• You can set the timings
for slide transitions
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11. Adjusting timings to narration
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12. For more info, check out
youtube or google it!