Prezi User s Manual. Created by: Jessica Arguelles Judith Arzola Gabriel Lira Nahomi Martinez Lizette Sidransky

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1 Prezi User s Manual Created by: Jessica Arguelles Judith Arzola Gabriel Lira Nahomi Martinez Lizette Sidransky

2 Table of Contents How to create a Group Presentation on Prezi..Page 3 What is Prezi?...Page 3 How to sign up for Prezi...Page 3 How to use Prezi...Page 5 Creating a New Prezi Step Page 5 Zooming In and Out Step Page 6 Editing Circle Step Page 6 Moving and Adjusting Text Step Page 7 Making the Path Step Page 8 View Your Prezi Step Page 9 Grouping Context Step Page 9 Editing Colors and Fonts Step Page 10 Redo and Undo Step Page 13 Inviting Others Step 29.. Page 13 Inserting Media Step 33 Page 15 Page 2

3 How to create a Group Presentation on Prezi These instructions were created for students, faculty, and staff from university/colleges to learn how to use prezi and create a group presentation. A group presentation consist of two or more individuals working on the same prezi through different computers at the same time. The instruction below will assist you in learning the different tools of prezi, and how to create an account, a prezi and invite others. What is Prezi? Prezi is a program that is web-based used to create presentations. Some call it the future of PowerPoint Presentations. It allows you to create layouts that look like maps in which you can zoom in and out. It can create a more interactive presentation, where you can do more than just text and photos, but you can add videos from youtube or other files. The presentation is created online, but you can download it to your desktop. You can also create a prezi in groups from different computers at the same time. How to sign up for Prezi 1. Go to there you will see the introduction screen sign up now. 2. You will then click on the Sign up now tab Page 3

4 3. You will be taken to choose a license to start using prezi. You will scroll down to an orange box that says Student/Teacher Licenses. 4. This will take you to Student/Teacher Licenses screen. The free prezi license is available for students, staff, and faculty of a university or college is the tab Edu Enjoy will pop up on a new column. Scroll down and in the middle of the bottom column you will see a blue box that has a tab named Free, click the Free tab. Page 4

5 5. You will have to enter your current university/college to verify that you are a student, faculty, or staff. You will be sent a link to your . Go into your , the sender name should say Prezi Team, and the subject of the will say Prezi.com: Verify your . Open this , you will see a link, go ahead and copy the link and then paste it on the search box, and then press enter. 6. You will then see a Registration screen where it will ask you to Enter the information that is needed to complete the Registration. The fields that need to be filled out are First Name, Last Name, Password, Password again. 7. After completing the fields, you will see a box right above the Register and Continue button. Click on Terms of Use, review this information, once you have read it, click on the little box which will place a check mark in the box indicating you agree to the terms of use. Click on Register and Continue. 8. A window will pop up that says Welcome to Prezi.com, Click on Start using Prezi now How to use Prezi 9. Now that you are registered with Prezi, you are now allowed to make a Prezi. On the top left of the window you will see a tab that says New Prezi, Click on New Prezi. Creating a New Prezi 10. The new window will allow you to enter a title of the Prezi you will be doing. Write in your corresponding title and description of your presentation. Once you have filled in that information click on New Prezi, then a loading screen will pop up. 11. Welcome to Prezi window will open up, close this window. The way you move around on Prezi is by left clicking on anywhere on the prezi, and then you will see a little hand go over your cursor and you will be able to drag the screen the direction you want by moving in the direction you would chose. Zooming in and Out Page 5

6 12. On the right side of your screen you will see a blue tab with three different buttons. The Minus (-) button is used to zoom out; there is a Home button which looks like a little house that will adjust the screen to view your presentation as a whole, while the Plus (+) button is used to zoom in. Editing Circle 13. Viewing the text Click anywhere & add an idea, click on there and this is the ideal location to place your title in. When you have filled in your title to get out of that text box, you can click anywhere else on the screen and it will automatically create a new text box that will allow you to write more information. This is the main editing circle that you will be using for your Prezi located at the top left corner of your page. Moving and Adjusting Text Page 6

7 14. You can move the entire text box you recently created. By clicking over the text, a blue circle will pop up when you click on the text. Click in the center of the circle, which has a Hand icon. From there you can drag the text anywhere you would like to place it. 15. On the same blue circle you can increase the size of the text to either make it really big or really small. The Plus (+) button will zoom in on the text, the Minus (-) button is used to zoom out on the text, decreasing the size of it. 16. Viewing the blue circle, in the outer region you will see blue lines aligned around the circle. These are used to rotate your text by moving counter-clock wise and clock wise. 17. Depending how you want your text you are also allowed to align the text the way you want it. Align text left, Center, Align text right, and justified these are located on the top of the text box. There is also a box that allows you to make bullets for a list. Page 7

8 18. The text box can be adjusted to make it longer to fix more text. On the right side of the text box you will see two arrows in a circle, click on the circle and drag the text box to the length you need it. Making the Path 19. Look to the top left of your screen, you will see a couple of circles put together. This is your main way to edit your whole prezi. Click on the circle that says Path. This button is used to create a path that your presentation will go through when presenting. 20. After clicking the Path button, another three circles will open around it. Click on 1-2- add circle. Click over any of the text you have on your Prezi. Since your title goes first, click over your title, you will see the number one in a circle which means that is the starting point of your path. Click on other text as this will continue your path, you will see the number two, three, four, etc View Your Prezi Page 8

9 21. To view your path, you will go back to the upper left corner of your screen, you will see an arrow, click on that arrow which will put you back into the original editing circle. Click on the grayed out circle which says Show. You can view the presentation in the current view, or you can select the Full Screen button. Click the Full Screen button so your presentation will be the only text on the display. 22. Once you have it in full screen, click on the Title which starts the Prezi. To get your presentation going you will go ahead and just click on the arrow keys on the keyboard. Click the right arrow to go forward to the next slide in your presentation. Click on the left arrow to go back to the previous slide. Grouping Content 23. Another way to help group content is by putting a frame in your Prezi. You can choose from brackets, a circle, or a solid box. Any information you place in this frame will keep the information together and will move everything within the frame. If you do not want the content to move with the frame you will need to click ALT + click the frame which will detach the content from the frame and will allow you to move the frame by itself. Editing Colors and Fonts Page 9

10 24. Click on the arrow on the upper left corner to go back to the original editing circle. Click on the Colors & Fonts button. You will see that you can select different kind of themes for your background also text. The circles you currently see are customized which will change your background and text to the particular theme you have selected. 25. Click on Theme Wizard button, this will allow you to create your own theme which includes your background, font, and colors. A new window will open up, you will see a variety of colors and this is how you edit your background, select a color. Page 10

11 26. Once you have selected a color for your background click on the Next button. This is the fonts & colors section. You will see three different tabs, Title 1, Title 2, and Body. From there you select the colors and the type of text you want. Click on the individual tabs, a drop down box will allow you to see the different kind of text available. This allows you to create two different headings with different colors and fonts as well as a manipulation in the body of your text. When customizing fonts and colors it will give you a preview of what the text will look like. Click done when you have finished your selections. Page 11

12 27. Your Prezi will have adjusted to the customization you have selected. To use these tools click on text and it will open up the text box. You will see at the bottom right hand corner the tabs that say Title 1, Title 2, and Body. To use the customized settings you have saved, you click on any of the three settings; all the text within the text box will adjust accordingly. Page 12

13 Redo and Undo 28. On Prezi you are allowed to reinstate an action as well as deleting a previous section. On the top center of the page you will see a rectangular box with two arrows, pointing opposite directions. The one pointing to the left is undo, and the one pointing to the right is redo. Inviting Others 29. In order to invite group members to your Prezi, you click on the tab Meeting you will see a drop down window and you can either choose Start Online Presentation or Invite to edit. Choose invite to edit to give access to others to assist you in creating your Prezi. If you choose Start online presentation it will only allow other users to view your Prezi and will not allow them to modify your Prezi. 30. After clicking invite to edit a new window will open. Copy the link that appears and from there proceed to your in order to forward the link to other users. 31. Once other users log in, you will see little animations with their names on top of their avatars. Each will have designated colors and will appear at the bottom of the screen. *By left clicking on an avatar you are allowed to hand over the presentation to another user. Page 13

14 32. When other users begin to add content to the Prezi, it will be available for others to view the modifications. You can also view the area of the presentation they are working on, the avatars of the users move to the location where the user is working or viewing. Page 14

15 Inserting Media 33. To insert any type of media you will have to go back to the editing circle on the upper left hand corner. Click on Insert and it will give you four choices: Files, YouTube, Image, and Shapes. Click on Files it will go to a uploading window, from there search for the media file you wish to upload. 34. Once you have selected the file, you will click open. As your media is being uploaded to the Prezi you will see a circle that says, We will process your media soon which means it is downloading to your prezi. Once it has downloaded you will be able to move it wherever you like. 35. To upload a YouTube video you will click on Insert, then you will click on the YouTube circle. A window titled Insert YouTube video will pop up, copy the link you wish to upload, paste the link, Click Insert. The video will be downloaded to your Prezi. 36. To save all the content on the Prezi, go to the top of the page, click on Saved At. Prezi does AutoSaving, once you have saved your Prezi it will say Saved At (current time). Page 15