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Narrating Inside of a PowerPoint is pretty simple. Before you start a voice over narration, however, create your presentation slides.

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For one thing, the slides will serve as an outline to your self recorded lecture.

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For another thing, by adding the narration as the last object on a slide,

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then the reading order part of accessability is preserved in your file as you create your slides.

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Try to avoid or limit the use of animations and transitions, and don't embed videos or other media objects.

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These bells and whistles bloat the file size of your presentation. In addition, some media animations,

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transitions and macros or code contained in the PowerPoint file might not be included when the presentation is exported.

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As a video. Keep in mind, the larger the file size of your PowerPoint presentation file.

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The longer it will take to convert it into a movie.

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Plus, the larger the final PowerPoint presentation or MP for movie file size will be to limit the file sizes.

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You can compress images across the entire presentation.

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And as we already stated, avoid animations and transitions.

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Lastly, as a final step before you start your narration, half what you're going to say already written out.

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This may alleviate the need for retakes. Plus, it makes it easier for you to create a downloadable transcript record or upload

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audio comments to each individual slide in your PowerPoint presentation.

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Instead of recording a single audio comment while navigating from slide to slide,

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it is much easier to delete and rerecord an audio comment on a single slide.

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Plus, it works better for an expert, a slide show or movie.

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Remember, if your presentation is going to turn out to be longer than 10 minutes, then consider making separate PowerPoint files.

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For each recording that you make, set the audio to start automatically and hide the speaker icon.

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The audio object during the show.

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If you're on a Mac with an older version of PowerPoint, anything prior to Office 365 for Mac version sixteen point nineteen.

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Or have any other difficulty creating a video from your PowerPoint,

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including being pressed for time, save a copy every presentation file as a PowerPoint show.

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That's the file type P. S X when this type of file is opened by default.

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It opens in presentation instead of design mode and your narrations will be played automatically.

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If you've set the playback options correctly, otherwise creative video through the export menu,

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setting it to be medium HD 720 quality is usually sufficient and will make for a smaller file size.

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You shouldn't have to worry about recorded timings. The slides will advance automatically in the movie based on the saved audio narration.

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For more tips on creating and sharing a narrated PowerPoint, visit the CTO teaching tool kit site and search for PowerPoint lecture.