Office Mix is an excellent tool for none specialists to record screencast presentations.  The howto instructions below describes how to use it in this way with an output to video.

1      Install Mix

1.1] go to

https://mix.office.com/en-us/Home

and click ‘Get Office Mix’ top right.  Follow instructions to install the addon to PowerPoint.

2      Prepare Powerpoint

2.1]  Prepare your powerpoint talk in a number of slides in the usual way.

3      Set up audio and camera

3.1]  Now go back to your first slide.  On the Mix tab, select ‘Slide Recording Record’ (far left)

3.2]  The screen will now redraw with a black top and right border.  Firstly we need to set up the microphone and cameara.

3.3] on the right column select ‘No camera’ and also on the microphone pull down menu, select your microphone.

3.4] As a check, when you speak the volume will appear as a bar animation above ‘Microphone Options…’

4      begin recording

4.1] Click the red ‘Record’ button.  The screen will acquire a dotted red line border.  Start talking.

4.2] When you are finished with the audio that goes with the slide, click the red square ‘stop’ button

4.3]  Preview your recording using the blue triangle ‘Preview Slide Recording’ button.  Your audio and slide should play back.

4.4]  If you are happy, click the ‘Next Slide’ arrow button to proceed to the next slide.  Repeat the steps from [4.1]

4.5] If you are not happy with your recording, simply repeat the steps from [4.1] and when PowerPoint prompts you ‘Would you like to overwrite this recording?’ choose ‘Yes’.

5      Processing the finished powerpoint

5.1]  When you have added audio to all slides, click the ‘Close’ cross button top right.

5.2]  Click ‘File’ > ‘Save as’ to save your powerpoint slides and audio recordings.

5.3]  Under the Mix tab > export to video.

5.4] Select (720p) as the Video size and click next.

5.5] Save your Presentation with a sensible name.

5.6]  You should be able to play your created presentation and it work.

6      Advanced features

Office Mix has several advanced features which you may wish to use.  These are:

• using animations within slides
• inking
• uploading to Office 365 for easy sharing

to investigate these see tutorial videos at https://mix.office.com/en-us/Home