Brainshark allows you to build presentations that include a variety of content, including PowerPoint slides, videos, live web pages, and PDF documents. Adding slides to your presentation lets you combine different media to create a comprehensive, engaging learning experience.

See how it looks

Key features

• Combine multiple content formats into a single presentation
• Upload files directly from your device or Google Drive
• Insert interactive elements like question slides and web content

You need this to succeed

• Plan: Bigtincan Basic Content, Bigtincan Content, Bigtincan Elite, Bigtincan Essential, Bigtincan Standard, Bigtincan Standard Plus
• Roles & Privileges: Author
• Folder Permissions: Author for at least one folder

Do this step by step

Add slides

1. To add slides to your existing presentations, click Content in the top menu and select My Content.
2. Search and filter your Presentations to locate the presentation you'd like to edit.
3. Click the three dot button on the presentation and select Edit.
4. Click Slides on the top left of the screen.
5. Click the Import Slides drop-down menu. If importing slides, select Upload files, Google Slides, or Brainshark to determine where you import slides from.
6. Confirm that your selected file appears in the window, then click Upload.
7. Wait for the file to upload and convert.
8. You can add a question, a video, or web content to your presentation to enhance user engagement from the Slides drop-down menu.
   • Select Question to add a question slide.
   • Select Video and Record video or Upload video.
   • Select Web content to add an external web reference. Add a slide name and a URL, then click Save. You can also upload an HTML5 file here. To do so, drag and drop the file then click Upload.

Note: Common supported file types for upload include ppt, pptx, mov, mp4, jpg, gif, png, pdf, txt, and doc.

Tip: You are all set once you see your newly uploaded file appear in the main viewing screen.

Reorder slides

You can reorder slides after uploading.

1. Click and drag a slide thumbnail to your desired position in the side panel.
2. Changes are automatically saved.

Copy slide content from other presentation slides

Authors can select specific slides to copy into their current presentation.

1. Click Content in the top menu and select My Content.
2. Locate the presentation you'd like to edit.
3. Click the three dot menu on the presentation and select Edit.
4. Click the Tools menu on the top left of the page.
5. Select Merge slide content from the dropdown menu.
6. In the Current presentation section, select the slide you want to replace with the source slide content.
7. In the Source section, select the Presentation to copy slides from.
8. Next, select the source slide.
9. In the Source’s Slide content section, select the types of content you want to use from the copied slide and click Replace.
10. In the Current presentation section, you’ll see a check mark in the Replaced column next to the selected slide.
11. Click Save.