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Victoria Dunlap
Copper Contributor
Mar 25, 2017

Mix tools in PowerPoint 2016

Hi, I have been using Office Mix 2016 for a few years to do tutorials for the teachers I work with.  Our county updated to 2016 around the holidays. They told us that Microsoft was putting all the t...
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Anonymous
Jun 12, 2017

Hi Victoria - I haven't read anything about Office Mix going away (is that what you were saying when you said mix.com?)

 

Only a subset of animations/transitions work in Office Mix.  You can find a list here:

http://www.mixforteachers.com/choose-the-right-animations-and-transitions.html'

 

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ta_pb
Iron Contributor
Jun 27, 2017
I'm using a Insider Preview version of PowerPoint 2016 and it now has a new "Recording" tab that has many of the features of the "Mix" tab except of course "Upload to Office Mix". If this is going to be included, what is the future of the mix.office.com site and how can we get the analytics?
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    Anonymous
    Jun 27, 2017

    Hi,

     

    Because some items like... 

    • inserting a video
    • inserting a screenshot
    • screen recording

    ...can be used in non-Mix environments, they're available on other ribbons besides the Mix ribbon.  The "magic" in Mix occurs when you upload the presentation to the cloud.  It's at that point that the conversion from a PowerPoint deck to a Mix video occurs.  

     

    To get analytics, you have to upload the Mix, then set the privacy setting so that it requires a user to log in (if you want to see each person's analytics).  

     

    You'll need to go to mix.office.com and download the free Mix add-in.  (Click on the orange, "Get Office Mix" rectangle).  

     

    After you click to download the add-in, one of two things will happen:

    1. It'll download fairly quickly (less than 60 seconds or so) and you'll see Mix as a separate option on your ribbon
    2. It'll start taking a long time to download and you'll eventually receive an error.  The error is something along the lines of, "0x80091007 - The hash value is not correct".  If that happens, you just need to update Visual Studio on your pc.  The download can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=48217

    KR,

    Tod

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Jun 27, 2017

      Last thing regarding the future of Mix:  I'm very hopeful that the MS Team plans on it keep & growing the tool.  Between OneNote (and now Class Notebook), O365, SharePoint and Mix, Microsoft is making my job much easier and allowing me to teach managers and SMEs how to create their own content.

       

      You might also want to follow the Microsoft Education community...great stuff there.

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        ta_pb
        Iron Contributor
        Jun 27, 2017
        The MEC "educator community" does have some useful stuff there too. Thanks.

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