I absolutely love the ability to upload already created PowerPoints to create as I believe the presentations look great compared to when just uploading a SCORM file as a course chapter. I noticed that while the pictures, backgrounds, and colors all convert seamlessly, the text that is on the PowerPoint does not convert accurately.
Once I upload my PowerPoint I’ve noticed that the line spacing, font size, text box size, and kerning of the text is vastly different in the “Create” presentation compared to the original PowerPoint I uploaded. This causes the text to look funky, non-uniform across slides, and the text to oftentimes spill out of the text box or slide. Sometimes the text spacing is too “smushed” while other times there is too large of a space between the paragraph lines.
When I was in the process of uploading all of our courses onto Create I found it would have taken more time to adjust the text format and text boxes on each individual slide to look professional compared to just copy/pasting the material from our PowerPoint slides to each individual slide in Create. This copy-paste process takes some time but is quicker than fixing the kerning, line spacing, text box, and font sized on each individual slide. If I were able to upload our PowerPoint Presentations all at once, integrating from our previous LMS provider to Absorb would take much less time compared to manually copy/pasting each individual slide from all of our PowerPoints into Create.
I also noticed when uploading our PowerPoint presentations onto Create that if the header of a text box was underlined, the body text would also be automatically underlined once on Create. While this isn't ideal, it wouldn't be too much of an issue if I were able to remove the underline on the text while in Create. Unfortunately it looks as if once the PP converts to Create there is no way to remove the underlines from the text while in Create.
It's extremely unfortunate that the Admin Experience does not import PowerPoint even though it gives the impression that it does. I'm coming from an LMS that imported PowerPoint presentations beautifully, without additional cost. We added Create to our package and were extremely disappointed when we discovered how poorly it performs. We ended up having to spend more to pick up some iSpring licenses just so we could get our content into Absorb.
I strongly agree with the three earlier comments. Converting courses to Create is very time-consuming and tedious. If the default font choices of Create were increased to be equivalent to the MicroSoft font catalogue it would go a long way to improving the conversion process. Also adding more bullet choices would be helpful.
I have found it possible to manipulate the text in Create but it is non-conventional and time consuming. A faster way to develop the converted course is to type the text into the voice field box and then copy it from there to the text box on the Create page. This approach also eliminates the likelihood for typos and phrasing mistakes in the text because spell and grammar check tool works in the voice field box great, unlike the text field on the Create page where it doesn't work at all. Underline and bullets don't have any affect it the voice field, but you can add them where needed in the text fields on the Create page. This approach has reduced my conversion time at least in half.
Thank you for raising this item, we will look into some of the potential issues that cause these issues.
I have been having this exact issue! My text is different sizes, falling off the page, moved around. I am spending more time updating the powerpoint to fit as it should than I would just building it in Create.
Agreed. The complete reformatting of a PowerPoint once it is uploaded to Create defeats the entire purpose of being able to upload a PowerPoint slide deck. The formating in Create needs to be enhanced. You cannot control many functions that are normally present in other programs, such as line spacing, tabbing, and indenting.