Teaching Software for Teachers and Instructors

authorPOINT is a teaching software utility for teachers. This teaching tool enables educators to record elearning presentations from within PowerPoint. Tutors can create and share e-learning multimedia presentations so that students / audience can see them in a web browser.

authorPOINT installs on a Windows based PC which has PowerPoint XP or higher installed on it. It shows up inside PowerPoint as a new toolbar. authorPOINT offers the functionality to record audio-only or audio-video based presentations.

Features for the teacher/presenter:

1. Capture live video from various video capture devices such as a webcam, DV or a mini DV camera, or any other USB or fire wire based devices.
2. Use pre-recorded audio/video file any of (AVI, WMV, WAV and WMA types) and sync it with the PowerPoint. You can also choose to use only audio from a video pre-recorded media.
3. Choose bit rate settings for presentation recording. Choices include 58kbps, 148kbps, 282kbps and 340kbps. You can also choose multiple bit rate (MBR). You can choose from various bit-rates settings for your video based on the Internet bandwidth of your target audience. You can also have a multiple bit-rate encoded video or retain the bit rates of a pre-recorded media file.
4. Preview your video before you begin capturing. Your video is also available while capturing, on the presentation recording bar.
5. Check audio recording volume quality by using options on Launch window.
6. Insert your organization's logo and make your profile, like your image and contact e-mail, accessible to your viewers.
7. Assign keywords that can be used to search and retrieve your presentation.
8. Assign a title to the presentation, which is displayed on top of your presentation.
9. Save presentations on different locations on your computer or on a network drive.
10. Insert speaker notes to show up as captions in the presentation. This feature is specifically useful for your viewers who are disabled.
11. Easily manage your presentations using the built-in Content Manager.
12. Choose template from a multiple set of templates available to you.
13. Insert external links in the presentation that can be used as external references.
14. A blinking indication light on the screen shows if the audio/video is being captured or not.
15. Choose to record from the beginning of a slide, If you fumble at that slide,
16. You can pause for a while during capture, and come back to recording from the point where you left.
17. Use the pen feature of authorPOINT to annotate/write on the slides. These annotations are captured and reproduced in sync with the rest of your presentation.
18. Once captured, you can zip a presentation and save it on your computer or on a different computer over the network.
19. Package a set of presentations on a CD or a DVD for delivery to your viewers. You can also have a launch page of your CD or DVD and also make them into Autorun media.
20. Convert your PowerPoint presentation into various formats such as Flash and Windows media.
21. Quickly publish your presentations on the Internet using authorPOINT's publish feature. You can publish them to your server using FTP or to our streaming server authorSTREAM, a free presentation sharing platform.
    
    If you are providing online education/institute, you can publish the content on our site WiZiQ. WiZiQ is a perfect platform for sharing educational content with the students. Use WiZiQ's virtual classroom equipped with live audio-video communication, chat, content sharing, and session recording capabilities. No download is required since it works with any web browser and on any operating system and its free.
    
    Click on the links mentioned above to know more about these two presentation sharing platforms provided by us and both the platforms are absolutely free.
    
    If your organization uses multiple servers to publish presentations (one for streaming media and the other for presentation files), you can use authorPOINT's publish feature to do so. You can publish on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac or Sun based servers.
22. Use the "Recover" feature if you change your PC or would just want to transfer presentations to another PC.
23. Use shortcut commands to perform most used operations on your presentations.

View some samples here: Multimedia Presentations.

Multimedia presentation features for popular video formats

authorPOINT outputs files in various different formats including Flash and Windows Media. There are some common features among the players. The table below shows all the features and tabulates which feature is available in each player: