The following instructions are provided to create a PowerPoint course. You'll see several additional fields that are optional to use based on your needs. For more comprehensive information on each field, see the getting started section of the online help. To create a PowerPoint course, navigate to the administrators console. Expand the navigation bar on the left of the screen. Click Resources, then maintain learning resources. Click the new button at the top of the main learning resources screen. The Overview tab of the new learning resource will be displayed. Select PowerPoint course from the type of resource drop-down. Assign a title to the course. The short description field is not required, but can be helpful in ensuring that users understand the purpose of the training. Populate the time requirement field with the duration of time required to complete the course. Use the resource status drop-down to indicate the status of the resource. This could be active and active or retired. Users will only be able to access the course if the resource status is set to active. Next, go to the media drop-down and select online. From the provider drop-down menu, select the provider of the content. Optionally, check the allow multiple enrollment checkbox. This ensures that users can enroll in a course more than once. For best practice, it's only recommended to check this box if users will be required to retake the course on a regular basis. Next is the description tab. Enter the long description of the course. You may copy the text from the short description field on the Overview tab if necessary. There are no required fields on the objectives tab. However, you may wish to enter any learning objectives here. Click the details tab. Assign a primary category or categories to the course. You can also use this tab to designate achievements upon completion, ratings, evaluations, and CEU credits, if desired. Use the owner sub-tab to populate the course owner field under the person column. You must also populate either the instructional designer or content owner, or both. Both fields are not required, but one must be present. Optionally, enter any prerequisites for the course under the prerequisite sub-tab. To convert the PowerPoint presentation to the learning resource, click the CONVERT button on the toolbar. First, make a selection from the navigation option menu. Manual navigation allows users to control advancement from slide to slide. Auto advance sets the presentation to advance to the next slide after a designated period of time. If auto Advance is selected, you must also populate the default slide duration field. To determine the length of time you wish each slide to remain on the user screen. Click the upload button. Locate the PowerPoint file on your computer and click open. A confirmation screen will appear. Click next to confirm your selections and proceed with the PowerPoint conversion process. A screen will appear to display the progress of the conversion. You do not have to wait for this step to complete before navigating away from this screen. The conversion will continue to run in the background. Click next. Once the file is uploaded, you can click the test button if you wish to ensure that the presentation launches properly. Click finish to complete the file upload. Navigate to the audience tab. There's a large amount of information pertaining to audience mapping. For information on setting up the courses audience, see the using audiences section of the online help. Please note that best practice is to leave the selections under the primary tab unmodified. Next, navigate to the notifications tab. Check the enable box to enable notifications. Then. Enter the course title in the subject field. If the course is going to be required, open the required course notification tab. Check the enable notification box. Enter the subject in the notification subject field. Enter the message that will be sent to the audience in the notification field. If desired, click the past due sub-tab and check the enable notification checkbox. Select the number of days after the due date when a user will receive a pass due notification from the day's drop down menu. Use the subsequent reminders field drop-down menu to select the frequency of which you want additional reminders to be sent. Every seven days here. Check the carbon copy manager box if you wish the users manager to receive these notifications as well. Lastly, populate the notification subject and notification text fields. If the metadata tab is available to you, click the time description sub-tab. In the field provided an approximately how long it will take a user to complete the course in quarter hour increments. For example, 15 minutes equals 0.25 hours. When you're satisfied with your selections, click the save button in the top toolbar. Return to the Overview tab and confirm that your course is set to active. Then add the course to the course catalog. See adding a course to the course catalog in the online help for instructions.