And recently, when we launched Office 365 Personal with cheap price, and when Office was officially available for free on iPad.
When the new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took office, he directed the group to move quickly to the cloud computing environment, and began to build a strong position in this area.
VERSION OF OFFICE MIX SOFTWARE
The ‘Mixes’ that you create can be viewed on any device with a web browser.Microsoft Office is the most famous office software in the world when it offers the best productivity for office users and lecturers. Office Mix is free and can be downloaded from onto your personal computer if you are running Office 2013 and is rumored to be included in the next version of Microsoft Office. Furthermore, the activity reports available for each ‘Mix’ allow you to track individuals’ progress and engagement, enabling you to identify possible problems with content, delivery or understanding. This integration with PowerPoint also allows you to make use of your existing presentations and resources, cutting down on the time spent creating new content. As a free tool, Office Mix makes use of many skills that you will already have if you are familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint through its easy integration with this commonly used tool. Office Mix is possibly the ideal tool to start flipping your classroom, the idea of reversing or flipping the traditional way in which class time is used and content is delivered. There is a range of ‘Mixes’ available to view in the Office Mix Gallery including Office Mix tutorials. Your Mixes can also be exported as videos in order to make them available offline. You will then be provided with a link to your presentation which can be sent to your students by email or added to your Study Direct (VLE) site. These ‘Mixes’ can then be uploaded to the Office Mix website with various privacy settings enabling you to choose who can view your ‘Mix’. Screenshot – capture a picture of your computer screen to insert into your slide.Screen recording – create a recording of your computer screen and insert it into a slide.Lab Apps for Office – choose from a range of apps that can be embedded into a slide, these include interactive quizzes and polls, a web viewer allowing you to insert fully interactive web pages into your slides, as well as apps that include content from Khan Academy and GeoGebra.Screen annotation – draw on top of your slides as you record to highlight specific content or to draw diagrams or equations.Slide recording – add a recording of yourself, using a webcam or audio, to narrate your slides.In addition to the existing functions of PowerPoint, Office Mix features include: You can use Office Mix to create a new presentation or adapt existing presentations that you already have saved. The additional features that Office Mix brings to PowerPoint allow for interactive elements such as quizzes and polls to be added, creating a far more engaging presentation within a tool that many people are already very familiar with.
Office Mix is a free add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint that enables you to transform your slideshows into interactive presentations. This week we are going to tell you about Office Mix – the much publicised add-on from Microsoft.