Presenting Powerpoint Slideshows With Audio Using Apporto

This article describes how to use the Apporto Desktop to access Audio PowerPoints and other advanced Microsoft files (as well as SPSS files) in classrooms and labs using Chromeboxes.. 

Once you are signed into Blackboard, navigate to your course and the content you wish to present. In this example, we are presenting a PowerPoint file with Audio, but you would be following the same steps for Word documents, Excel files, and SPSS files.

Clicking on the link to the PowerPoint file will begin to download it to the Apporto Desktop. Once the download completes, click on the file to open it in the associated application.

Alternately, you can use the File Download icon in the upper left corner of the Apporto window to download files from Google Drive if they are stored there instead of in Blackboard.

From here, you can start the presentation as you normally would. If this is a PowerPoint with embedded audio, as long as the file is opened with PowerPoint, the audio will play when the file is presented (it will not if you open the file in Google Slides).

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