Creating Web Pages from MS Office

This is the best way to post PowerPoint presentations into your Blackboard site!

(PCs & Office 2000)

You need to have WinZip or another Zip (compression) utility installed on your computer. To access this free download, please go to the UTHSC HelpDesk site.

1. Go to your Desktop and create a new folder.
2. Open your Office document and then select Save As Web Page. You will be prompted to name the document. Do so, and save it into the folder you created on your Desktop.
3. After the "save" is completed, if you look into the folder that you created in Step 1, you will see the document that you saved as well as a folder with that name that holds all supporting files (slides turned into JPEGs, for example). E.g., if you saved your document as "PRESENTATION1.", you will see PRESENTATION1.htm as well as a folder named PRESENTATION1_files.
4. Right-click on that new folder and choose "Add to [foldername].zip". That will add create the zip archive and should also preserve the directory structure(thus preserving the relative links of the converted document).
5. Uploading zipped files into a Blackboard Blackboard site is exactly the same as uploading any other document. The difference is selecting "Unpackage these files" from the drop-down box before you submit!
   1. Browse to find the zip archive file.
   2. Enter a "Name of Link to File".
   3. Choose the "Unpackage these files" Special Action.
   4. Submit.
   You will then be prompted to select the entry page for your website. It should be the name that you used when you saved your PowerPoint or Word document as a Web Page. Select that document from the list and click submit. 

(PCs & PowerPoint 97 and Macs running PowerPoint 98)

You need to have ZipIt (Mac) or WinZip (PC) or another Zip (compression) utility installed on your computer.

1. Follow the steps above to save the PowerPoint document as HTML.
2. Open the Zip utility and create a new archive.
3. Add all files associated with the presentation. (Leave the files in the directory system created by Office when it created the HTML docs.)
4. Upload following the directions above.