Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Friday, November 15, 2013
How to embed slide show presentation to a website for free but also limit the audience
It started with my need to create a nice module in Moodle for my organization. To make it interesting, I intended to make it in a slide show presentation, controllable by the user.
I have known Slideshare that provide that kind of service, deemed to be the YouTube of presentation slides, which is free and easy to use.
Since the material I wanna share internally is also supposed to be kept internally, I kinda expected that Slideshare provide the capability to do private sharing (unlisted capability of YouTube), meaning sharing it to those you intended it to. So I tried Slideshare.
However, Slideshare only provides that capability to pro (paid) user. It means if I upload my stuff in Slideshare, it is view-able by others too.
So, I tried to find alternatives and stumbled across a number of similar tools. An example of said tools can be read here :
I tried Empressr, with its capability of sharing privately, with password. It just didn't work with embedding in Moodle. Reading all the others' description, I couldn't determine which one can provide me with the feature I needed. I didn't have time to try them one by one. Another quick googling and I found out that presentation slides from Google Drive could be viewed as a slide show when embedded in another web page. It could serve my need. A ha!
So I uploaded the presentation slide to Google Drive, made it viewable only to those who has the link.
(For a step by step guidance, see this : How To Display Presentation Slides on a Blog Post with Google Drive)
The last part is to embed it to Moodle page :
I used this :
Click here to get the code in text if you don't wanna type it :)
If your sharing link is something like this:
I have known Slideshare that provide that kind of service, deemed to be the YouTube of presentation slides, which is free and easy to use.
Since the material I wanna share internally is also supposed to be kept internally, I kinda expected that Slideshare provide the capability to do private sharing (unlisted capability of YouTube), meaning sharing it to those you intended it to. So I tried Slideshare.
However, Slideshare only provides that capability to pro (paid) user. It means if I upload my stuff in Slideshare, it is view-able by others too.
So, I tried to find alternatives and stumbled across a number of similar tools. An example of said tools can be read here :
I tried Empressr, with its capability of sharing privately, with password. It just didn't work with embedding in Moodle. Reading all the others' description, I couldn't determine which one can provide me with the feature I needed. I didn't have time to try them one by one. Another quick googling and I found out that presentation slides from Google Drive could be viewed as a slide show when embedded in another web page. It could serve my need. A ha!
So I uploaded the presentation slide to Google Drive, made it viewable only to those who has the link.
(For a step by step guidance, see this : How To Display Presentation Slides on a Blog Post with Google Drive)
The last part is to embed it to Moodle page :
I used this :
Click here to get the code in text if you don't wanna type it :)
Change the red text to the id of your presentation slide in Google Drive.
If your sharing link is something like this:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gRzW98_UtFOy570K6UZY5PG5fsasaEEe4Lmz8qBFi3_oDc/edit?usp=sharing
The id to use is the one in red text.
This solved my case : embedding somewhat private material in controllable slide show presentation in an internal webpage for internal consumption :)
Monday, November 11, 2013
I believe that we learn by practice..
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| A quote I like, related to Knowledge Management, and can be used to explain why we need the practice part. |
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