Yes, but this does not have any advantages over uploading the content to Panopto. Note, the Office Mix PowerPoint plug in is no longer available to download.Ĭould I migrate my Office Mixes to a private Mircosoft Stream account? Office Mix PowerPoint plug in though may not work with future versions of PowerPoint or Windows. Yes, only the Office Mix publishing site is not available. No, the publishing functionality has not been available since 1st January 2018.Ĭan I continue to use Office Mix to produce videos? An automatic message about the retirement of Office Mix, will be display every time a staff member or student clicks on an Office Mix link in their course.Ĭan I still publish Mixes to the Office website until 1st May 2018? Links that have been copied forward from a previous semester will still work in Learning Edge. Yes, but we recommend that you ensure that you have downloaded a copy of all your presentations. FAQsĬan the current Mixes in my course continue until 1st May 2018? Please check the Learning Services Lecture Capture page for further information on this service and how if can be used as a guide to Desktop Recording. The Learning Technology Development team recommend that all staff use Panopto as a desktop recording replacement. Our Panopto service will offer the exact same experience for these types of online materials. Edge Hill University staff should note that we do not currently have access to Microsoft Stream.

Microsoft has also published an information page. Microsoft have said that “Over time, we will be adding the best experiences of Office Mix across PowerPoint, Stream, and Forms to make it even easier for you to create and share interactive online videos.” Please contact your faculty Technologist for support with this procedure. If you have quiz questions in your Mixes you will need to recreate them using the Panopto interactive quiz tool. We recommend that you now re-publish your Mixes as videos and upload them to Panopto. If you would like to save your content, you can download your Mixes as PowerPoint files (.pptx), and your analytics data as Excel files (.xlsx) to save to your local storage device. If you have been using Office Mix, you will need to download any files you wish to keep before May 1st, 2018.

Any links or embedded content to your Office Mix content in your Learning Edge courses will stop working after this date.Ī number of staff at Edge Hill University have been using Office Mix as a tool to create interactive multi-media presentations for their Learning Edge (Blackboard) courses.

The site will no longer be accessible after that date. On this date the Microsoft Office Mix site and all its content will be officially discontinued. Microsoft have recently notified any staff that have used Office Mix that it it will be retired on M‍ay 1st, 2‍018.

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