Create & Edit a Brainshark

Create a Brainshark Presentation

This tutorial will help you plan your Brainshark presentation and then show you how to get your content into Brainshark.

Step-by-Step Guidance

Author Quick Start Guide

This guide is helpful for new Brainshark Authors, or more experienced users who like a handy checklist to follow along. It will help you get started with the basics of Brainshark.

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Adding and Managing Audio

Audio can make or break the success of your presentation. Knowing the best way to reach your audience with audio will make your presentation most effective.

Step-by-Step Guidance

Recording Audio in Microsoft Live Meeting™

Best Practices and process for recording Live Meeting™ (2005 and 2007 versions) for later importing to Brainshark.

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Inviting Guest Speakers To Record Audio

Understand the Guest Audio feature. Learn how, when and why you would want to invite guest speakers.

Adding and Managing Slides and Attachments

Leverage the content you already have and incorporate it in your Brainshark presentation.

Merge Content

Repurpose existing slides, audio files and attachments across presentations in your site.

Using Video in Brainshark

Recommendations for using video in your presentation.

Creating Camtasia 6 Video Files for Use in Brainshark

Anyone who has used Camtasia knows that it makes it easy to turn screen recordings and demonstrations into polished videos. This tutorial will show you the best settings to get those videos to seamlessly work in your Brainshark presentations.

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Creating Captivate 5 Video Files for Use in Brainshark

Anyone who has used Captivate knows that it makes it easy to turn screen recordings and demonstrations into polished videos. This tutorial will show you the best settings to get those videos to seamlessly work in your Brainshark presentations.

Step-by-Step Guidance

TipCam for Brainshark

If you have TipCam for Brainshark, review the recording, editing and posting options available to you when recording screen movement and audio with this tool.

Adding Attachments

Enhance your presentation by adding documents, video, websites and more.

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Adding Hyperlinks to Your Slides

Your slides can be an interactive part of your presentation with the addition of hyperlinks.

Adding Questions, Polls & Surveys

Create a quiz or gather user feedback by adding examination, poll and survey questions to your presentations and report on viewer results and responses.

Step-by-Step Guidance

Customize Question Background Slides

Add your own custom question slide backgrounds and edit text offsets.

Step-by-Step Guidance

Adjust Text Offsets on Question Backgrounds

Media Library

Add and manage presenter photos, logos, question backgrounds and background audio files in your site.

Animations in Brainshark

Learn how to add and modify animation timings in PowerPoint and Brainshark.

Adjust Your Presentation Settings

Learn more about Brainshark settings so you can determine which ones you'll need for your communication.

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Personalizing Presentations

Customize presentations created by other Authors in your Brainshark site and send them as your own.

Adding Completion Criteria

If you are sending out an important communication or required learning material, completion criteria can help communicate the importance of the material and ensure your viewers complete it.

Custom Completion Certificates

Replacement parameters to use when creating a custom completion certificate background for use in your site.

Brainshark Viewing Console

The Brainshark Viewing Console displays your communication for your viewer. This document reviews the settings you can enable which affect its look and operation.

Brainshark Content Portal

An optional, contemporary interface for your Brainshark site.

Best Practices for the Public Content Portal

Guide to set up and maintenance of a successful Public Portal for your viewers.

Deleting and Inactivating Presentations

Contrasts the ‘delete’ and ‘inactivate’ options for presentations.

Content Archiving

If you purchased the Content Archiving module, view this presentation to learn everything you need to know about archiving and restoring presentations, as well as reporting on archived presentations.

Securing your Brainshark Content

A how-to document, by content-centric scenario, to help you ensure views on your content are as open or limited as you require.

Content Approval

This presentation is for administrators and authors. Administrators will learn how to set up the content approval process. Authors will learn how to request approval for content and how to determine when content has been approved or rejected.