{"id":4531,"date":"2018-12-03T08:49:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T08:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2018-12-03T08:49:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T08:49:28","slug":"create-beautiful-presentations-with-beautiful-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/2018\/12\/03\/create-beautiful-presentations-with-beautiful-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Create beautiful presentations with beautiful.ai"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">A.I. Powered Presentation Software<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4><strong>What is Beautiful.ai?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all been there: Your presentation is at 9am tomorrow morning, but instead of rehearsing you\u2019re up at midnight drawing circles and lining up arrows. This can\u2019t be the best way to build a presentation, but until now it\u2019s all we\u2019ve had.\u00a0\u00a0Beautiful.ai is a new online service that will help you prepare a presentation which is easy to create, share and embed in LearnZone.\u00a0 Check out these lovely examples:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/about.beautiful.ai\/#examples\">https:\/\/about.beautiful.ai\/#examples<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"diff-item\">[youtube_sc url=&#8221;https:\/\/youtu.be\/L1yG-SUrA14&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div class=\"diff-item\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"diff-item\"><\/div>\n<h4><strong>Why use Beautiful.ai?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Smart Templates<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p class=\"diff-title\">Instantly visualise your ideas with more than 50 ready-to-use, customisable smart templates. Just think of an idea, choose a template, and get to work. Finally, presentation software with smarts!\u00a0 Check out the templates here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/about.beautiful.ai\/templates\">https:\/\/about.beautiful.ai\/templates<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"diff-title\"><strong>Adaptive Slides<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p class=\"diff-title\">Don\u2019t worry about changing fonts, lining up text boxes, or animating slides. The &#8220;Design AI&#8221;\u00a0automates these tasks so that you can focus on your content.<\/p>\n<div class=\"diff-item\">\n<h5 class=\"diff-title\"><strong>Great Presentation<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"diff-item\">\n<p class=\"diff-title\">Beautiful.ai will automatically enforce presentation design best practices\u2014and set a few constraints\u2014so that your slides always look clean, modern, and professional.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"diff-item\">\n<div class=\"diff-item\">\n<div class=\"diff-textbox right\">\n<div class=\"diff-text\">\n<h5 class=\"diff-title\"><strong>Beautiful Images<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"diff-item\">\n<div class=\"diff-item\">\n<div class=\"diff-textbox right\">\n<div class=\"diff-text\">\n<p>The beautiful.ai image library includes millions of beautiful\u2014and totally free\u2014photos and icons. They&#8217;ll help you find them, place them, and filter them\u2014seamlessly.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>How could you use Beautiful.ai?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Engage your students with amazing slides<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>As a teacher you can prepare slides for the curriculum and quickly share or embed them into LearnZone.\u00a0 The main benefit aside from the fantastic design options is the ability to share the presentation and update them from one storage location.\u00a0 Should you spot a mistake or a typo after you create them, then correcting this for everyone is quick and easy.\u00a0 This prevent any unecessary duplication of materials and ensures all teachers or students have the most up to date copies of the slides.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Focus your students on the content<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Students can prepare presentations or evidence using beautiful.ai with the ability to store and share the file all from one storage area.\u00a0 Students don&#8217;t have to worry about the design of their presentations, but they can focus on the content instead.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>How much does Beautiful.ai cost?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>At the moment most of the feature appear to be free.\u00a0 We think they are working on a paid version which will have even more features, however you can create lots of presentations for free and share them at will!<\/p>\n<h4><strong>What else should I know?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s free you need to consider any potential drawbacks when using this service.\u00a0 I think the main and obvious one is that the service is held on a third party storage and as such if it&#8217;s down then you can&#8217;t access your account.\u00a0 You also need to consider that the terms of service could change and some features may become chargeable even though they were once free.\u00a0 That said, there is no issue in using this for student work as the evidence they create doesn&#8217;t need to be live for longer periods of time as with teachers&#8217; resources.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"diff-item\">\n<div class=\"diff-item diff-item-reverse\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beautiful.ai\/signup\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4548 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/files\/2018\/11\/button.png\" width=\"313\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/files\/2018\/11\/button.png 313w, https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/files\/2018\/11\/button-300x56.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.I. 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