Read: Flipping Your Classroom with Office MIX

Intro to Office Mix
(https://mix.office.com)
 
What is Office Mix and what can it do?

Office Mix is a free add-in for PowerPoint that allows you to easily create and share interactive PowerPoints lessons (called a ‘Mix’). Your completed Mix can be sent as a link to students who log in with their ELPS email to playback the Mix on any device.

With Office Mix, you can 

• add voice, video and write or draw on your PowerPoint lesson using annotation (connection to student learning - encourage students to be engaged in the learning process)
• embed quizzes, polls and interactive apps that students completed while going through the presentation at their own pace (connection to student learning - assist students who have various learning styles)
• view insights and analytics for the quizzes and polls your students complete

Getting started with Mix

• You can create a new Mix from scratch or make a Mix out of an existing presentation
• See Hand-On Activities for step-by-step instructions for each feature

Preview your Mix

• When you’re done recording audio, video or annotations, click close in top-right corner to return to PowerPoints normal slide view.
• Select Preview
• You can drag and re-size inking and videos and see audio icon on slide if audio was added

Upload your Mix to mix.office.com

• Go to the MIX tab
• Select Upload to MIX
• Follow the upload steps on the right-side panel when they appear (prepare, offline and mobile and create)
• If this is the first time you’re using Mix, you will be asked to sign in after clicking Next on the first step
• Once you’ve signed in, you will choose to create this as a new Mix OR to replace an existing Mix    
• If you want your Mix to be viewable on mobile devices, you will check the box on the second step under Enable playback on mobile devices (this may add minutes to your upload time)
• Once your Mix has been uploaded, click the orange button to view, manage and share your Mix from the Mix portal
• The details of your Mix will appear in a new browser windows. Here you can Title your Mix, add a description, categorize and tag it, set permissions and sharing (your Mix will be set as private by default which means that only you can view it), add closed captions and generate a sharable link.

Share your Mix

•  You can share your mix through a clickable link, on social channels like Facebook, Google Plus or Twitter or you can generate and copy an embed code to embed your Mix directly on your website. 

Export your Mix as a video (this may cause your Mix to lose some of it’s interactive features)

• Go to the MIX tab
• Select Export to Video

Manage your Mixes & Review Analytics

• Go to https://mix.office.com and log in with your ELPS Office 365 account to  manage and view your Mixes within the My Mixes tab
  

download: Flipping with analytics using office mix powerpoint

Start with the original copy of the Newton’s First Law of Motion PowerPoint presentation below and try the hands on activities listed in the next section.

download: newton's first law of motion powerpoint

On slide 2, select from any of the following choices to add audio or video (or both) of yourself using the audio/visual panel on right side of screen.

1.       Record your own video

• Go to the MIX tab
  
• Select Screen Recording
  
• Select your settings (select input, check volume level and/or select pen size and ink color)
• Select the Record button
• Voice over your slide, record video, draw on slide (see slide 5 activity)
• Preview your recording 
• Save recording or delete recording and record again
  
• You can edit your thumbnail size & location after you return to your PowerPoint
  

2.       Add a video file you recorded beforehand

• Go to the INSERT tab
• Select Video
• Select Video from my PC…
• Select your video file

Or, if you chose, you can simply embed a YouTube video (your own or one created by someone else)

• Go to the INSERT tab
• Select Video
• Select Online video
• Search for the video within the YouTube search or paste the embed code from YouTube
• Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okCCGxWs_L8

On slide 3, make the question interactive by inserting a quiz (free response quiz, multiple choice quiz, multiple response poll or true/false quiz)

• Go to the MIX tab
• Select Quizzes Videos Apps
  
• Select STORE (no purchase required)
  
• Chose from the following: Free Response Quiz, Multiple Choice quiz, Multiple Response Poll or True/False Quiz
• Select Add next to the quiz format you choose (you will be asked to Trust the quiz, click Trust It)
• Continue adding questions and answer options until complete

On slide 5, demonstrate a force being placed on the object by adding annotation/inking.

• Go to the MIX tab
• Select the Record button
• Select your pen size and color
• Select Record
• Preview demonstration 
• Continue or re-record

On slide 8, add a free response quiz in place of an open ended question.

• Go to the MIX tab
• Select Quizzes Videos App
• Select Free Response Quiz
• Add question(s)

On slide 11, in addition to the interactive quiz features, you can insert interactive apps and content to get students thinking & inquiring further about the question posed on this slide.

• Add a new slide
• Go to the MIX tab
• Select Quizzes Videos Apps
• Choose a content provider under Videos and Apps (ex. CK-12 Science Resources)
• Select a content area (ex. Physics)
• Select a broad concept (ex. motion and force) and a specific concept (ex. Newton’s First Law)
• Add content that applies to your lesson

On slide 15, in addition to content, you can also insert simulations from the apps available. You can give students directions for an in-class demonstration, or you can have them complete a simulation directly in PowerPoint using MIX.

• Go to the MIX tab
• Select Quizzes Videos Apps
• Select an app (ex. PhET Sims Science)
• Select a simulation topics (ex. Forces and motion)
• Select Insert

download: office mix activities word document