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NEW: As of 12:00pm, 5 April 2003, CarpePPT has been completely re-written and simplified. To download the new software, right-click on one of the following:

• PresentationRecorder for PowerPoint 2000
• PresentationRecorder for PowerPoint XP

CarpePpt is a simple piece of software that, when used with your PowerPoint 2000 presentation, will record the timing of the slide changes, extract your slides into a set of GIF images, and even help you upload these to a server. CarpePpt makes it very easy to record web presentations using PowerPoint 2000.

Prerequisites: To run CarpePpt, you will need to have Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 installed on your computer, and Visual Basic for Applications. VBA comes with Microsoft Office 2000.

To get CarpePpt, all you need to do is RIGHT-CLICK on the link below to download the single file called carpe.ppt. When you open it with PowerPoint, you will be given easy directions to set it up.

RIGHT-CLICK for version 3.1: DOWNLOAD

Confused by the options when right-clicking? We were too!

• For Internet Explorer: choose "Save Target As..."
  
• For Netscape: choose "Save Link As..."
  
• For Opera: er... left click, don't right click, and hope for the best.
  

NB: When you open carpe.ppt with PowerPoint, it will immediately notify you that the document contains macros. You should choose "Enable Macros" to enable the CarpePpt macro. You should usually be very cautious about opening unknown documents containing macros, but as long as you obtain the file directly from our site, you can trust it.

Instructions
These are the same instructions you will find in the carpe.ppt file

1. When opening carpe.ppt, you will be notified that it contains macros. You should enable macros.
2. Make sure that both your presentation and carpe.ppt are open, and that your presentation is currently selected.
3. To load the macro, click on Tools --> Macro --> Macros (or press ALT+F8).
4. Under the Macro in: pulldown menu, select CarpePPT or All Open Presentations, then click Run
5. When you run the CarpePpt macro for the first time, you don’t need to do anything, just click Continue.
6. Give the presentation (press F5)
7. When the presentation is complete, CarpePpt pops up again.
8. Click Save Timing/Slides (this creates the lecture.xml file containing the timing information, and extracts the slides as GIF images)
9. To send the Lecture Object to the WLAP server, click Upload (or you can wait to do this step later)

Authors
Giosue Vitaglione (primary author) - giosue@umich.edu
Giosue designed and wrote CarpePpt, and was the sole author of versions 1.0 and 2.0.

Jeremy Herr - herrj@umich.edu
Jeremy packaged the macros from version 2.0 into one PPT presentation, making it even easier to use than before. He has released versions 3.0 and higher, and written documentation.

Eric Myers - myers@umich.edu
Eric provided ideas and helped in all stages of development.

Versions

CarpePpt 3.1 August 2002	This version is an update to 3.0. New metadata entries were added, such as author, affiliation and language. A separate window was added for uploading. Robustness was added.
CarpePpt 3.0 January 2002	Now CarpePpt is available in one easy-to-use PowerPoint file, complete with directions and pre-loaded macros. Also, bugs have been fixed in this version, and the code is more robust.
CarpePpt 2.0 May 2001	If you are using tools compliant to the Lecture Object Architecture, you might want to use version 2.0
CarpePpt 1.0 April 2001	If you are using Syncomatic to publish your web-lecture, you might want to use version 1.0