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New Brainshark Author? (Duration: 3:54)

View helpful tips on how to Get Started, Get Trained and Get Technical Help while using the Brainshark application. Download a Quick Reference Guide for help with Basic Authoring tasks.

Best Practices Project Plan Worksheet

Use this worksheet to ensure a successful communication for every Brainshark you create.

Authoring & Viewing Basics (Duration: 7:58)

View an overview of the Brainshark application and the features available when creating and viewing presentations. Download a recommended Curriculum. Register for the FREE Authoring Training sessions offered.

Brainshark Authoring I (Duration: 12:57)

View our recommendations on how to get started on the road to building great rich media presentations in Brainshark. Download a Quick Reference Guide for Basic Authoring tasks.

Brainshark Authoring II (Duration: 14:03)

View our best practice tips for taking your presentations beyond slides and audio; make your presentations more interactive and compelling. Download a Quick Reference Guide for Advanced Authoring Tasks.

Best Practices for Authors (Duration: 12:55)

Develop content that is clear, concise, consistent, and compelling.

Content Developer Resource

Before you create you content, discover all that you can do with Brainshark.

Brainshark Reporting (Duration: 8:21)

Measure the effectiveness of your content with Brainshark's powerful tracking and reporting tools. This document summarizes the reports that are available in Brainshark, as well as when and why to run each of them.

Brainshark Unhooked for Authors

How to create a Brainshark presentation for offline viewing.

Authoring

During this interactive session, review the basics of editing Brainshark presentations in the context of how you plan to use Brainshark to educate clients/partners, communicate to employees, market to prospects or generate leads for your sales reps.

Best Practices for Authors (Duration: 12:55)

For optimal results, be sure to view this presentation which descibes the best practices of presentation structure, slide design and audio delivery.

Best Practices - Six Steps to Success

The key to great communicating is having a process for developing, delivering and assessing each communication in an overall strategy. Follow the Six Steps to Success methodology in this presentation to execute impactful communications every time you reach out to an audience.

Best Practices Project Plan Worksheet

Use this worksheet after viewing the Best Practices - Six Steps to Success to ensure a successful communication for every Brainshark that you create.

Best Practices for Using Animations (Duration: 7:16)

Enhance your presentations through the use of Powerpoint animations.

Adding slides beyond PPT (Duration: 6:28)

Create slides with questions, video, animations, web sites and more. When you want to go beyond PowerPoint, view this presentation.

Best Practices for Video (Duration: 7:08)

Requirements and recommendations for using video in your presentation.

Best Practices for Script Writing (Duration: 6:06)

In a multimedia presentation, the script is critical since it not only provides the direction for the slides, but also because it will be the spoken word. Scriptwriting does not have to be a difficult challenge. View this presentation for 10 tips to building a great script and a successful presentation.

Content Developer Resource

Before you create you content, discover all that you can do with Brainshark.

Authoring

During this interactive session, review the basics of editing Brainshark presentations in the context of how you plan to use Brainshark to educate clients/partners, communicate to employees, market to prospects or generate leads for your sales reps.

Minimum System Requirements

System requirements for viewing Brainshark presentations.

Brainshark Viewing Console (Duration: 9:13)

Navigate your way to the best viewing experience possible.

Brainshark Unhooked for Viewers

How to download a Brainshark presentation for offline viewing.

Multi-Lingual Support

Learn which languages are supported by the Brainshark Viewing console.

Add Audio via Telephone

Use the telephone to narrate your Brainshark presentation. View this document for specifics.

Uploading Existing Audio

Repurpose your existing audio files by adding them to your presentation.

Guest Voice (Duration: 3:17)

Provides instructions for your Guest to add his/her voice to your presentation.

Send Guest Voice Request (Duration: 4:39)

Take your subject matter experts through the process of adding audio to your presentations.

Background Audio Guidelines

View this "how-to" guide for adding background audio files to your Media Library and applying background audio to your Brainshark presentation.

Brainshark to iPod™ (Duration: 4:49)

View a presentation or download a document on how to get content from Brainshark to your iPod.

Podcasting Made Easy (Duration: 6:18)

An introduction to Podcasting and the technical resources to get started.

Best Practices for Video (Duration: 7:08)

Enhance your Brainshark presentation through the use of video. This document explains how.

Video Terms & Definitions

This document is a glossary of video terms and definitions describing a variety of video formats.

TipCam for Brainshark

If you have purchased TipCam for Brainshark, view this tutorial or download this document to see the Recording, Editing and Posting options available to you when recording screen movement, audio and activity with this easy-to-use tool.

Adding Attachments

Enhance your presentation by adding documents, videos, and/or websites so that your audience can view, print, and/or save them.

Hyperlinks - Make your slides come alive! (Duration: 4:16)

Make your slides an interactive part of your presentation by adding hyperlinks.

Adding Questions, Polls & Surveys (Duration: 6:55)

Add exams, polls & surveys to your presentations and report on the results.

Adding and Replacing Slides (Duration: 4:03)

Learn how simple it is to add or replace slides without losing the audio.

Media Library (Duration: 6:14)

Add and manage your photos, logos, question backgrounds and background audio.

Merge Content

Repurpose existing slide images, audio files and attachments across presentations in your site.

Deleting and Inactivating Presentations

To Delete or to Inactivate? – that is the question. This document will help you find the answer and give you the steps to get it done.

Linking and Embedding Brainshark Presentations (Duration: 7:18)

Embed Brainshark presentations into websites, Intranets, and blogs. View an Example

Connecting Brainshark to your Intranet

Make the interface between your applications or Intranet and Brainshark as seamless as possible.

Brainshark Content Portal™ (Duration: 4:09)

The brainshark content portal offers a Contemporary interface to your company's sharkive.

Who is Viewing Your Brainshark (Duration: 11:33)

Choose from a variety of tracking methods to find out whos viewing your Brainshark presentations.

Presentation Completion Criteria (Duration: 5:18)

Require the percentage of slides, audio, and test score for presentation completion.

URL Parameters

Check out this document for alternative ways to display your presentations and add the URL modifiers included to effect these changes.

Passing Data with Parameters

If you are interested in passing presentation or viewer data from a Brainshark presentation to a third-party application, custom web-based application or a web page, this document will give you the parameters to add to the URL.

Pre-Filling Guestbook Data

viewer information from your login-required site/portal to Brainshark using the codes included in this document.

Adding Tracking Codes

Track viewing activity to discover who and how your views are accessed by using tracking codes.

New Brainshark Administrator? (Duration: 6:09)

View helpful tips on how to get Started, Get Trained and Get Technical Help while using the Brainshark application. Download a Quick Reference Guide for help with basic Administrator tasks.

Authoring & Viewing Basics (Duration: 7:58)

Understanding the available features in Brainshark will help you as an Administrator, even if you will never create presentations yourself. View this presentation for a high-level overview of the Brainshark application. Download a recommended Curriculum. Register for the FREE Administrator Training sessions offered weekly.

Administrator Quick Reference Guide

Download this document to provide an overview of the most frequently used Company Administration features.

Role of the Company Administrator

This document describes the Brainshark Company Administrator role.

Role of the Folder Administrator

Brainshark Folder Administrators have limited administrative permissions within a designated folder or folders. View this document for more information.

Administration Reports (Duration: 10:09)

Company Administrators can run reports not available to all users. See the reports that are available and how to run them.

Manage Company: General Preferences (Duration: 4:08)

Setting company-wide general preferences for your Brainshark site.

Manage Company: Presentation Settings (Duration: 12:19)

Setting presentation security, viewer and guestbook options.

Manage Company: Manage Templates (Duration: 3:46)

Setting global question settings and backgrounds.

Manage Company: Media Library (Duration: 2:45)

Uploading your company logo and managing background audio files which can be made available to your authors.

Manage Company: Advanced Options (Duration: 7:06)

Manage password policy, self-registration, and site access.

Add and Manage Folders (Duration: 5:34)

How to create and manage folders and control access to content.

Add and Manage Users (Duration: 10:27)

All you need to know about adding and managing user profiles.

Add and Manage Groups (Duration: 3:50)

When and why to use groups and how to add and manage them.

Manage Content (Duration: 4:09)

How to view, edit, and manage all Brainshark content on your site.

Presentation Wizards - Create from Wizard (Duration: 5:10)

Authors guide through the presentation Wizard process.

Presentation Wizards - Create A Wizard (Duration: 6:33)

Turn Brainshark presentations into Wizards to be used as templates for authors.

Presentation Wizards - Administrator's Guide (Duration: 5:48)

Administration settings to enable authors to become Wizard creators.

Brainshark Viewer Clickpath Reporting (Duration: 3:10)

Follow the specific path your viewers took through your presentations.

Content Approval (Duration: 5:53)

Everything you need to know to set up and execute the content approval process.

Content Archiving (Duration: 3:15)

This presentation will show you everything you need to know about archiving, restoring and reporting on your presentations.

Brainshark CRM Integration (Duration: 6:12)

Integrate Brainshark with your CRM application.

Brainshark Live Meeting Gateway™ (Duration: 7:49)

Processes and best practices for importing your Live Meeting recording to Brainshark.

Brainshark Live Meeting Audio (2005 Version)

Best practices for recording your Live Meeting audio

Brainshark Live Meeting Audio (2007 Version)

Best practices for recording your Live Meeting audio