Teaching with Technology: AuthorPoint Tutorial: Introduction

AuthorPoint Tutorial

System Requirements

Hardware Software
  • CPU: Pentium III or later
  • 128 MB RAM (minimum 256 MB recommended)
  • Approximately 50 MB of available disk space. Your system hard disk should have sufficient space to maintain your presentations.
  • Multimedia - Sound card
  • Recording Device: (optional)
    • For Audio: Microphone
    • For Video: Webcam, digital camcorder handycam through Firewire capture cards or USB
  • Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP
  • Microsoft PowerPoint: PowerPoint 2000, PowerPoint 2002 (PowerPoint XP) or PowerPoint 2003
  • Approximately 50 MB of available disk space. Your system hard disk should have sufficient space to maintain your presentations.
  • Player: Windows Media Player 8.0 or higher; Real Player; and / or Pocket PC Flash player.
  • Supporting Browser: Internet explorer 5.5 or higher required for Windows Media and Real Media outputs. All browsers will support Flash output including Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla/Firefox, and Safari.
  • Adobe Flash Player 8. Please go to http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/
    to check your version and see if it’s at least version 8.

These requirements were taken from AuthorPoint’s website: http://www.authorgen.com/authorpoint/systemreq.htm

Additional hardware/equipment may be required depending on your recording device. Please see the Hardware/Equipment Installation portion of the tutorial for more details.

Some users may have already recorded themselves while giving a lecture, such as making a video or mp3 file. If this is the case, please keep in mind that AuthorPoint uses avi and wmv video and wma audio file types. You may need to convert your audio/video file to another type, and this can be done through a number of file converter suites. If converting this isn’t successful, you may need to re-record your lecture. If have pre-recorded audio/video in the format of wmv, avi or wma, please skip the “Hardware/Equipment Installation” section of this tutorial.