iSpring Online Getting Started Guide

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iSpring Online is tightly integrated with the latest iSpring products for rich media and e-learning content authoring: iSpring Presenter and iSpring Pro. To evaluate all iSpring Online features, please download a trial version of iSpring Presenter 5.7 and get a free full-functional demo iSpring Online account at the Get a Free Trial License page. At the second step of this page, please click the "Create iSpring Online Trial Account" button and enter your personal information (Name, E-mail Address, Password) and account data (Account URL and Account Name) to gain your iSpring Online experience.

Once you complete this form and click the Save button, your account will be created and you will be automatically transferred to the “Dashboard” page with your account summary where you can add and manage presentations, users and user groups.

Managing iSpring Online Users and Groups

To proceed with adding users to your iSpring Online account, click the Manage Users link on the Dashboard panel.

iSpring Online provides 3 roles for users: Administrators, Publishers and Private Viewers. User privileges for each role are shown in the table below:

	Administrators	Publishers	Private Viewers
Permissions	Publish, manage and delete content View all content Access all reports Change account settings Change personal settings (email, password) Manage administrators Manage publishers Manage private viewers Manage groups	Publish, manage and delete content View all content Access all reports Change personal settings (email, password) Manage private viewers Manage groups	View permitted content Access personal content viewing history Change personal settings (email, password)

You can assign the role for each user in your account by adding them to the corresponding group. A newly created account goes with 2 built-in user groups: Administrators (supervisors) and Publishers (teachers). These two groups cannot be deleted and let you add new users with administrative or publishing privileges. Administrators and Publishers can create and manage new groups to organize Private Viewers (students) and track e-learning activity for each group separately.

iSpring Online account owner (creator) has administrative privileges by default and can create Publishers (up to 10 users), Private Viewers or additional Administrators (up to 3 users).

Creating Teacher Users

Let’s start organize your account by adding teachers as users with publishing privileges. Click the Add New Users link at the “Users” page and fill out the form shown at the screenshot below. You can send an email notification with login info to each newly created user at iSpring Online ticking Email each user with their login information checkbox.

Creating Student Users and Organizing Them into Groups

The process of adding Student users as private viewers is similar to adding Teachers described above. The only difference is that you need to create a new group with limited privileges. You can create a student group right in the “Add Users” window by clicking the Create New Group link and specifying a group name.

Publishing Your Content from iSpring Presenter

Once you have iSpring Presenter installed, launch PowerPoint and select “iSpring Presenter” tab. Open your PowerPoint presentation or create a new one to test publishing to iSpring Online right from your PowerPoint. Click the Publish button at the iSpring toolbar and select iSpring Online as a destination in the Publish to Flash window as shown below:

iSpring Presenter provides an option to save iSpring Online account details for further publishing to iSpring Online. Click the Edit Account... button and specify your account details you entered while creating your iSpring Online account.

Once you are done, click Publish and specify presentation title, tags and description in the window opened.

To complete posting the presentation to iSpring Online, click Upload. When upload completes, you will be prompted to open a page with your content at iSpring Online. Click Manage uploaded presentation to proceed.

Managing Your Content Item

At the “Manage Content Item” page, you can:

• change title, description, tags of your content item,
• completely delete content item,
• share a direct link to the content,
• invite users by e-mail to view this content item,
• run reports for this content item,
• change permissions for this content item (who can view it),
• view this content item.

Click the View Item button or click over content item thumbnail to launch it. Your content will be shown in a new browser window.

Managing Your Content

iSpring Online provides the convenient way to explore and manage tons of your presentations uploaded. Select the Content tab to go to “Manage Content” page.

Managing Your Content

Manage Content page lets you navigate through your content and easily find items that you need using search and “Filter by Tags” feature.

Getting Reports

Once uploaded your content and given necessary permissions to your users, you are ready to track their activity. iSpring Online provides a wide range of detailed report types to track every aspect of account activity. Click the Reports tab to view the full list of reports available to your convenience.

Let’s create a sample report on how your content item was viewed. Click the Traffic link to launch traffic report for your content.

Select the content item you want to track at the left side of the screen and click the Run Report button to generate a report. The sample report for your content is shown at the screenshot below.