All About Mix
Office Mix is the more traditional of the two new Office solutions, since it’s really an add-in for PowerPoint. But it doesn’t take long to see how Mix represents a new way of thinking. With straight-up PowerPoint, you can create presentations which are essentially a one-way form of communication. Yes, you will (hopefully) interact with your audience while speaking to a PowerPoint presentation, but there is little interaction functionality in the actual product.
Mix changes that. It helps you change your unidirectional presentations into interactive online lessons that you can share with others. So while you use PowerPoint to create a presentation, you use Mix to create a … mix. You can discover much of what Mix adds to PowerPoint by simply viewing the new Mix tab that appears in that app after the add-in is installed. Here, you’ll see options for recording your slides, adding quizzes and other interactive elements, recording the screen, taking a screenshot, inserting audio and video, and more. |
Once you’re done mixing, you can also upload your mix to a My Mixes pages at Microsoft’s Office Mix site, so you can share it with others. This isn’t a video, as you might share on YouTube, though it does provide that one-sided output option as well. Instead, a mix is a new kind of interactive document that’s designed to be web-hosted so that viewers can access it from any web browser on any device. So while Mix does require a certain version of Office during creation—Office 2013 for Windows or newer—its output is very much universal by design.
This is perhaps a more important point than is immediately obvious. With traditional core Office applications—again, Word, Excel and PowerPoint—you are essentially working with a document, a file that you manually manage. But the output of Mix—your mix—is more nebulous. It’s an online thing. There is no way to create an “offline” version of a mix.
This is perhaps a more important point than is immediately obvious. With traditional core Office applications—again, Word, Excel and PowerPoint—you are essentially working with a document, a file that you manually manage. But the output of Mix—your mix—is more nebulous. It’s an online thing. There is no way to create an “offline” version of a mix.
Power Point Mix Tutorial
How to create a screen recording
How to create a Quiz/Poll
Take a look at this student example on Math
Let's look at more examples:
https://mix.office.com/watch/v6ze1zx01a3r?lcid=1033
https://mix.office.com/watch/V3Q8XERQ2MQR
https://mix.office.com/watch/16tva6pn512mt?lcid=1033
https://mix.office.com/watch/1d7bydzgxfwny?lcid=1033
https://mix.office.com/watch/j6lrdyguwhtf?lcid=1033
Here are some examples of Power Point Mix - https://mix.office.com/gallery