{"id":35586,"date":"2020-07-21T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/?p=35586"},"modified":"2020-07-21T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T11:09:42","slug":"create-virtual-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/education\/2020\/07\/21\/create-virtual-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make engaging virtual lessons for students"},"content":{"rendered":"
Virtual lessons are a great way to share content to your students, and other educators. It means your students are able to learn no matter where they are, or have the content to look back on a later date.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, having a lesson plan is the easiest part and recorded and uploading the lesson can be daunting. But we\u2019ve got a step-by-step guide on how to record, upload, and share your presentations.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll be doing this through PowerPoint and Microsoft Stream, which makes it easy to use and accessible, with transcripts and captions.<\/p>\n
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PowerPoint has a really great feature to help you easily develop new content by adding audio narration to existing slides. This can also prove really useful for students when recording assessed presentations.<\/p>\n
Top tip: <\/strong>Presentation Coach<\/a> helps you prepare in private to give more engaging presentations.<\/p>\n Before you can use the Recording <\/strong>feature, you will need to make sure it\u2019s in your main ribbon in PowerPoint.<\/p>\n Once you have added the Recording <\/strong>tab, you can then use the Record Slide Show <\/strong>function. This will allow you to record audio and video, over each slide in the sequence. You can pause or stop at any time, and re-record any sections that you are not happy with.<\/p>\n Once you\u2019re happy with the audio-narrated slide content, you can then proceed with exporting it to a video. This can either be exported locally to an MP4 video file, or alternatively, published directly to your Microsoft Stream account when using Office 365.<\/p>\n Once you have uploaded your presentation to Stream, you will want to share them with your learners. You also might want to share other videos with colleagues or learners. These could include Microsoft Teams Meeting recordings, or other content.<\/p>\n The great thing about Stream is it can autogenerate captions using Automatic Speech Recognition technology. These are also available as a transcript so users can look for specific points in the video later on.<\/p>\n Top tip: <\/strong>Make your lesson more engaging by adding a quiz using Microsoft Forms<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve already uploaded a video, you can go to the Edit Video<\/strong> option. Otherwise, you can do this as you\u2019re uploading a video. In the Details<\/strong> section, select your supported language.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the Options<\/strong> tab, set Autogenerate captions<\/strong> to On<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It may take a while for the captions to generate – It typically takes 1-2 times the video’s duration. For example, a one hour video, could wait around two hours to finish processing.<\/p>\n Once signed-in to Microsoft Stream, your video content can be found under My Content<\/strong>. Individual videos can be shared easily via web-link, email or embed code.<\/p>\n By creating a Channel <\/strong>in Stream, <\/strong>you can group related video content for easy access and viewing. This can prove particularly useful for curating collections of video-based learning resources.<\/p>\n As well as sharing your Videos<\/strong> and Channels<\/strong> using a link, email, or embed code – you can also embed content directly into Microsoft Teams. This helps maintain a streamlined experience for your learners, and ensures content is organised and accessible within the learning environment.<\/p>\n By using PowerPoint and Stream, you can deliver engaging, accessible virtual lessons that you can share to your Class Teams, or share with learners and other educators. This will help create a fun, smooth learning experience for everyone, no matter where they are.<\/p>\n Discover our remote learning resources<\/a><\/p>\n With PowerPoint and Microsoft Stream, you can create engaging and creative virtual lessons you can share with students in a remote learning environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":37719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"post_tag":[160,978,361,229,1347,367],"content-type":[],"coauthors":[456],"class_list":["post-35586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-blogger-series","tag-classroom-experience","tag-education","tag-microsoft-educator-community","tag-remote-learning","tag-teachers"],"yoast_head":"\n1. Setting up the Recording tab in PowerPoint<\/h3>\n
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2. Recording audio narration over your slides<\/h3>\n
3. Exporting your slides as a video<\/h3>\n
Effectively sharing your virtual lesson on Stream<\/h2>\n
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1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Turn on captions on your video<\/h3>\n
2. Sharing an individual virtual lesson in Microsoft Stream<\/h3>\n
3. Curating and sharing a Channel of Stream video content<\/h3>\n
4. Adding your virtual lesson to Microsoft Teams<\/h3>\n
Creating engaging virtual lessons<\/h2>\n
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