Forum Discussion
Please keep Office Mix if you cannot improve Stream
MicrosoftThank you so much for your feedback and putting together that list of the things that you liked about Office Mix and what we need to improve in Stream. We will use your feedback as we plan what to do next.
We are looking at what features, ideas, and concepts we can start pulling into Stream. At this point it time as you mentioned Stream is not a replacement for Office Mix. Stream is about videos, however Mix was about interactive content, videos, powerpoint, and had deeper features that were tailored to the education space.
We do believe that Stream and PowerPoint are the right place for the ideas/concepts Mix proved out in it's preview product, however it is going to take time for us to figure out exactly how/what that means in Stream.
Our agency thrived on office mix features. We even bought Microsoft USB plug in play camera's for everyone to create awesome power point presentations and they delivered. If you implement these features on stream and stream is only available on a website, I dear hope you guys make it snappy. If we're allowed to keep the office mix plug-in, I plan to not remove it at all from office 2013/2016 .
I know your pain! I could overlook the fact that they took away most of the best features and made us individually update every link we've ever made, but I can't even share videos outside my organization or without a login anymore. Before I had all my mixes embedded into lovely workbooks and it all worked seamlessly. Now the student has to log in every time they want to view one. I can't send anything to externals. can't check analytics. I don't see the point in stream which has countless identical and better alternatives on the internet. Office mix was unique. RIP
When will the interactive features for MIX work on Stream?
Our university has a fast approaching timeline to complete additional tutorials (created using MIX) which we've already rolled out to 900 medical and health science students. We're ready to use another product if the interactive features in PowerPoint's MIX do
Marc Mroz wrote:
Thank you so much for your feedback and putting together that list of the things that you liked about Office Mix and what we need to improve in Stream. We will use your feedback as we plan what to do next.
We are looking at what features, ideas, and concepts we can start pulling into Stream. At this point it time as you mentioned Stream is not a replacement for Office Mix. Stream is about videos, however Mix was about interactive content, videos, powerpoint, and had deeper features that were tailored to the education space.
We do believe that Stream and PowerPoint are the right place for the ideas/concepts Mix proved out in it's preview product, however it is going to take time for us to figure out exactly how/what that means in Stream.
not work with Stream.- Marc Mroz
LaVentra E. Danquah - We hear your concerns and frustrations and are looking into how we can bring some of the best of Office Mix into Stream/PowerPoint. We need to get a little further along in our planning, designing, and thinking before we can share more specifics. But we are listening and taking action internally here on the Stream and PowerPoint teams.
- I really hope your team gets the time and budget to make it happen in the very near future. As educators, we are really quite depending on this features. As are our students! Wouldn't be the first time my students ask me to record a lesson in mix, so that they can review it at home. I now share both links with them (mix & stream) and the first comments about stream were not that positive unfortunately... The absence of the table of content-navigation is a real nuisance to the students.
Sean's post is exactly what we in the education space need to happen if Stream is to be the MS Mix replacement. My University, as well as many others that I am aware of, have moved to the O365 platform. We had fully embraced the Mix environment and integrated it into our LMS (Blackboard). We were starting to away from Camtasia to have a single vended solution but now have to go back or find another tool that supports online education.
Adobe Captivate is a good tool that you can import your PPT into and create quizzing. However, it's relatively new with a bug when integrating the SCORM into Blackboard but it does have rich metrics where the bug can be 'worked around'. They also have an LMS. The monthly subscription is reasonable too. Perhaps that is the solution if Microsoft can no longer support the educator.
I would hope that MS would have this deficiency on their radar and would establish a platform to replace Mix to support the educator group of users.
Best Regards
Rita.
