Office Mix

What is Office Mix?

Office Mix is a free add-in for PowerPoint that's designed for educators. With Office Mix you can add audio narrations to PowerPoint presentations, include a screen cam video of yourself talking (if you want), draw on the screen as you talk, insert quiz questions for students to answer, and publish to the "cloud" for easy linking from Sakai. You can also see detailed data on what each student viewed and for how long, as well as each student's answers to any questions you inserted.

See examples:

• Solving Rational Functions by Stacey Roshan
• Annotating Texts in the Literature Classroom by Jenni Baldwin
• More examples of educational uses of Office Mix
• To see even more examples, visit the Office Mix Gallery

What do I need to use it?

To use Office Mix to enhance your PowerPoints, you need...

• a computer with Windows and Office 2013 or Office 2016
  • Durham Tech employees can get Office for free at portal.office.com
• the Office Mix add-in
  • download for free at mix.office.com
• a microphone or headset for recording audio
• speakers for hearing audio

Note: Office Mix does not work on Mac computers.

How can I learn to use Office Mix?

Starting in Fall 2015, Instructional Technologies is offering training workshops on Office Mix. You can browse the training schedule and sign up here.

• Office Mix Training Handout (pdf)
• Step-by-step tutorial videos

Additional Resources

• mix.office.com - The main site for Office Mix. Here you can download Office Mix and find lots of tutorials. You can also log in to access mixes you have published and to view data on student usage.

• www.mixforteachers.com - A special site just for educators with lots of tutorials and ideas for using Office Mix in instruction.

• Office Mix Help Guide for Educators (pdf, 22 pages)

• Keyboard Shortcuts can simplify recording

• How to Put Your Mix in Sakai (pdf)

• How to Caption an Office Mix