I tried to upload a PowerPoint presentation as a course, but the slides are very small when you view it as a learner. If the font size of the PowerPoint is below 14, you can hardly read what it says. Are there any plans for ability to zoom in, increase the size or maybe choose full screen? This could also be useful for detailed images.
I appreciate the workaround! However it's not a satisfactory solution for our company since our employees themselves are the authors (no instructional designers) and thus using yet another software would be too complicated and also costly. The ability to zoom/enlarge slides (and regular images, which is an even bigger problem for us), is something that I'm really hoping for in the near future!
I would wonder if some sort of conversion could happen when you upload a Power Point where Bridge converts each of your slides into their own type of slide. Not sure if that's something that would help, but I'd think that if this happened it the text would default to the default text size of a slide.
Food for thought..
That or rather than embedding/importing your PowerPoint, manually creating the same slides in the Bridge content creator would allow you to more fully control the size of text without the worry of something happening. I'm never a fan of manually moving content this way, but I'd do it if it means uniformity in the presentation of the content and increased usability.
We've been training our subject matter experts to go big or go home with their fonts on power point slides. I find I prefer using about 28pt on my own slide decks. Much smaller gets harder to see.
We've also been getting into some hybrid content. So, we use big fonts on the slide and then still use the course builder to supplement additional information above/below the ppt slide, or we import the slides as images and have multiple slides on a page within the course builder, etc. Add in embedded content and it's gotten pretty interesting.
Heidi
on Jan 24, 2017
Look at using iSpring to convert your Powerpoint to SCORM and then it will appear larger in the course.