Embedding a PowerPoint using SlideShare

Introduction

This instruction set will walk you through the steps of embedding a PowerPoint presentation using SlideShare.  SlideShare is a website that allows you to upload your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and Adobe PDF Portfolios to the site and share them either publicly or privately.  Creating an account on this website is free and only takes a few minutes of your time.  After completing the steps below, you will be able to view your presentation as a blog entry.  Below are the instructions as well as a screen-cast, which is a video that takes you step by step through the process on the screen.  Completing this task may take some time because uploading your presentation to SlideShare can sometimes take up to 15 minutes.

The screencast below provides an overview of the steps.

Screencast Tutorial

After watching the screencast, follow the steps provided in the next section.

Embedding the PowerPoint

1. Log on to your SlideShare account (Click on the image below to access the website)

2.  Click on UPLOAD at top of page

3.  Click on Browse and select files...

 

4.  Open your desired presentation

 

Note:  Once the PowerPoint is uploaded to the website, changes cannot be made to the presentation. 

 

5.  Title your presentation and select your category and privacy settings

 

6. Select Publish

 

7.  Select here to see status of upload

 

 

8.  Click on the image of your presentation when it is ready 

 

Note:  It may take a while for the file to upload to the website.

9.  Copy the embed code located under the picture of your presentation

Note:  If you selected Private in your Privacy Settings when uploading the PowerPoint, the embed code will not be visible.  You will need to go into Edit Presentation (circled above) and check to Allow the embedding outside SlideShare as shown below. 

 

10.  Log on to your Dashboard (Click on the image below to access the website)

 

 

Top of Form

Note: For the following step, you can also create a page or add your slide deck to an existing page by choosing either Create/Page or Manage/Page.Bottom of Form

 

 

11.  Under Create, select Entry

 

12.  Click HTML mode:  <A>

 

 

13.  Paste the embed code in the text box

 

14.  Click on the WYSIWYC mode: A 

 

 

Note:  Once you click on WYSIWYC mode, the PowerPoint should be visible in the text box and not a line of code. 

 

15.  Save and Publish

You will now be able to view your PowerPoint presentation as a blog entry!