Add Audio Recording to Each of Your PowerPoint Slides

1. Open your PowerPoint presentation.

2.  Click the “Insert” tab.

Arrow pointing to the Insert feature in PowerPoint.

3. Click “Media > Audio” and then select “Record Audio”.

Arrow labeled at number 1 pointing to the Media option. Arrow number 2 pointing to the sound level control. Arrow 3 pointing to the Record Audio feature.

4. Name your audio recording. (Note: We recommend that you name it as the slide number such as slide 1).

Box with recorded audio chosen as a name with another box to the right being titled Slide 1.

5. Click the record button.

Arrow pointing to the record button.

6.  Now start to record your audio for the slide.

7. Click the stop button when you are finished. 

8. (Optional) You can click the Play button to hear your audio recording. When you are done listening to your audio, just click the stop button.

Arrow pointing to the play button to test sound that was just recorded.

9. (Optional) If you don’t like what you heard, you can click the record button again and record your audio again.

10. When you’re done recording the audio and you like it, click “OK”.

Arrow pointing to the OK button to finalize the recording.

11. The audio icon will be placed in the middle of your slide. We recommend that you move to the bottom right corner of your slide.

Sound symbol being shown in middle of first presentation slide with that same symbol being moved to the bottom right of the same slide.

12. Click the “Animation” tab.

Arrow pointing to the Animations feature in Powerpoint.

13. Within the Timing group, click the down arrow to the right of “On Click” and select “After Previous”.

On click dropdown menu with arrow pointing to the After Previous option.

14. Repeat steps 2 through 11 to add your audio recordings to the rest of your slides.

15. Save your PowerPoint.

16. Export your PowerPoint out as a video by doing the following:

A. Click the File tab.

Arrow pointing to the File menu.

B. Click “Export” and the select “Create a Video”.

Arrow pointing to the Export option in PowerPoint.

C. Click “Create Video”.

Arrow pointing to the Create Video feature in a window called Create A Video.

D. Save your video. (Note: It may take several minutes to save your PowerPoint as a video file.)

Screen showing where you might want to save your video on your computer.

17. Log into your Blackboard account.

18. Click the “Faculty Resources” tab.

Faculty Resources tab in Blackboard

19. Click “My Media”.

My Media option chosen in Kaltura.

20. Click “Add New” and then select “Media Upload”.

Menu to upload a new video. Media Upload chosen as that option.

21. Agree to the above terms and conditions.”.

22. Click on “Choose a file to upload”.

Arrow pointing to the option to Choose  A File To Upload.

23. Select your file and click Open.

Arrow pointing to the PowerPoint file and the option to Open that file.

24. Do the following:

A. Enter in a description.

B. Enter in at least tag.

25. Click Save and then “Go To My Media.

Arrow pointing to save option.

26. If you don’t see your video in your My Media, that means that it’s still in the process in be uploaded to your My Media. Just check back in a bit.

27. Go into your Blackboard course where you want to deploy the video.

28. Hover over Build Content and then select “Kaltura Media”.

29. Click the “Select” button to the right of the video.

30.  Do the following:

A. Enter in a title for the video.

B. Enter a description.

31. Click the "Submit" button.

32. Video has now been deployed in your Blackboard course.