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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.
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.