To Use Adobe Presenter or Not to Use...
March 27, 2019
To Use Adobe Presenter or Not to Use...
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Presenter
The faculty currently uses Presenter as a way to take our already made PowerPoint presentations and turn them into interactive lessons to use with our students. It allows us to create a flipped classroom environment so we are able to work with specific students to address concerns and troubles as other students are working at their own pace.
- It is very easy for faculty to use. Even those who have limited experience in creating online courses feel comfortable using Presenter.
- It allows our faculty to have students working in different areas at the same time so we are able to individualize our instruction to meet student needs.
- The quiz feature is fantastic to be able to quickly assess student learning to determine if they are ready to move forward.
- We have faced some difficulty with Presenter and Adobe Flash. Some of our teachers have grown weary of constant messages of not having the correct Flash player, even though it is.
- We wish we had the ability to use more than one quiz in a presentation in order to more accurately determine student success, but we are able to see the number of slides viewed along with the quiz score to help determine mastery.
- We are able to allow teachers to create course content without the need for a computer science background.
- It allows us to better meet the needs of our students in terms of differentiating instruction.
We looked into Storyline as an option, since it is able to be used with Powerpoint. However, we felt that Presenter would be easier for our teachers to learn and navigate without constantly needing extra help.
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We felt Presenter would be easy for our faculty to use, as it is integrated with Powerpoint. Our teachers use that program on a regular basis, so we liked that we could add this feature to it to create interactive, multimedia lessons.
We are fairly pleased with how our selection turned out, so we don't really have anything to change.
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The produce was very easy to understand and learn, since it works with Powerpoint. It made it converting reluctant teachers who didn't want to have to learn something new an easy task. We would do this same process again.
Using Adobe Presenter
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Using Powerpoint presentations to create the lessons makes it an easy transition.
- It is great to have the ability to have a quiz feature within the presentation.
- The dependence of Presenter on Flash makes it difficult if a device is completely updated and not able to work with the program.