Instructors are supported by VIN and VSPN staff who help prepare your course materials and assist you during the Real Time Session

• You will need to turn in a PowerPoint presentation to your facilitator approximately 2 weeks before the scheduled Real Time Session.  The PowerPoint presentation will contain the outline of your lecture, images, videos (optional), and polls.  See Slideshows for information on PowerPoint presentation recommendations. 
  
  
• For courses that offer CE credit, the inclusion of poll questions and breaks to respond to participant questions will allow participants the opportunity to earn points towards their course CE certificate.
  
  
  • We recommend that you have at least one planned break in your presentation to answer questions. For Rounds or sessions that are less than 2 hours long, this is typically done at the end of the presentation.  For a 2 hour session, you might consider an additional break for questions approximately halfway through your lecture.
  • We recommend you provide a minimum of 5 polls per hour of lecture in your PowerPoint presentation. Try to space the polls in your lecture so they aren't all clumped together.
    
    
• Your facilitator will review your presentation to verify the presence of copyright text, check spelling, check formatting consistency, etc.  It is important that the presentation you use for the Real Time Session matches the presentation saved to the course library.
  
  
  • Your facilitator will generate handouts (a pdf file) of your PowerPoint presentation slides and place it in the course library.  Participants can then download the handouts, print them, and use them to take notes during the lecture, if that's their preferred method of learning. 
    
    
  • Your PowerPoint slides will also be converted into an online slideshow that will be incorporated into the text transcript of the Real Time Session.
    
    
  • The polling information will be extracted from the PowerPoint slides and manually entered into the Zoom webinar definition by your facilitator prior to the Real Time Session.  During the Real Time Session, polls will be sent by one of the session moderators when they see the poll slide displayed. The participants can then respond to the poll using a polling popup window.
    
    
•  Please speak with your facilitator to schedule a webinar training session and audio check prior to your first Real Time Session.

You can also present your course by pre-recording your session in Power Point.

• You can add an audio recording to a PowerPoint slide. This is typically done when the instructor wishes to pre-record the lecture and just be available for answering questions during the real time session.  Your facilitator will turn the PowerPoint presentation with pre-recorded audio into a series of short videos.  The videos will be played during the webinar and the transitions between videos can be used as an opportunity to check for and answer questions from the participants. If you are interested in pre-recording your lecture, please consult with your course facilitator.  Pre-recording a lecture takes additional time and you will need to get your PowerPoint presentation finished much earlier than if you planned to do your presentation "live." 
  
  
• To record in Power Point go to the "Insert" tab at the top of the screen and choose the audio option. There you choose record audio and record each slide. You can change one slide without having to re record the whole course this way. It is recommended that you use a headset with a microphone instead of using the computer microphone as the results are clearer. Please contact your facilitator if you do not have a headset and we can provide one for you.