Applies To: PowerPoint 2016 PowerPoint 2013 PowerPoint 2010 PowerPoint 2007

Narrations and timings can enhance a web-based or self-running slide show. If you have a sound card, microphone, and speakers, you can record your PowerPoint presentation and capture narrations, slide timings, and ink gestures. (If you have a webcam, you can even record video!)

After you have made the recording, it's like any other presentation that can be played for you or your audience in Slide Show—or you can save the presentation as a video file.

PC Users:

Office 2016 or 2013 (Most likely for GSA computers)

Office 2010 / PowerPoint 2010

Mac Users: Record your slide show in PowerPoint 2016 or 2011 for Mac.

Here is a screencast of the process of narrating your PowerPoint, saving as a video, and uploading it to Canvas: