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Editing a Presentation

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You can select to edit a presentation from your Library or from the Class List where it is published. Typically you can only edit presentations you have created or copied. However if you are an instructor in a course where a presentation is published, you may be able to edit another user's presentation.

IMPORTANT: Editing a presentation is limited to:

  • Creating, editing, or deleting polling or other media slides.
  • Adding slides from another presentation, either one you upload or one already resident in your library
  • Rearranging the slides in the deck

YOU CANNOT edit the base file's slides; those changes must be done in whatever program you used to generate them in the first place. Echo360 does NOT have an editing function for uploaded slides/pages. 

See Working with Slides and Presentations and its related articles for links and detailed instructions on uploading content, and adding media and interactive slides and polls to your presentation.

ALTERNATELY, if you are an instructor and you use Windows, you can download and install the Microsoft Office PowerPoint Ribbon add-on provided by Echo360. This add-on allows you to create and edit a slide deck through PowerPoint, including adding activity slides, then publish it to a class.

To edit a presentation

  1. Click on a Presentation tile in your Library OR in a Collection where you have Edit Media permissions, to open the Media Details page.
  2. Click the Edit Media option located below the preview panel.
    Media Details page for a presentation with Edit Media option identified as described

    The slide deck opens in the editor window.
    Edit presentation window showing all slides in the selected deck as described

  3. Drag and drop slides to rearrange them as needed.
  4. Use the Add Poll and Add Slides buttons to add each to the deck.
    Edit presentation page with Add Poll and Add Slide buttons identified as described
  5. Hover your mouse over a POLL to reveal buttons, shown in the below figure, for editing (a pencil), viewing, and deleting the poll (the X button).
    Edit presentation page with edit and view and delete buttons for a polling slide identified as described
  6. Hover your mouse over a non-polling slide to reveal buttons, shown below, for viewing or deleting the slide.
    Edit presentation page with view and delete buttons for a non-polling slide identified as described
  7. When finished click the "Back Arrow" that appears in the top left corner, to return to the media details page.

Your changes take place in the presentation immediately and are reflected in any class that includes the presentation.

As stated above, see Working with Slides and Presentations and its related articles for links and detailed instructions on uploading content, and adding slides and activities to your presentation.