Shared material for the Microsoft in Higher Education Conference 2020

Dewayne Hyatt - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dewaynehyatt/

Joe Gasper - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joegasper/

Hosting Online Conferences and Symposiums using Microsoft Teams - Recording (YouTube) | Slide deck (PowerPoint)

NACAA Organization Online Conference Hosting in Microsoft Teams - Case Study

When it looked like the annual meeting of county extension agents from US land-grant universities would be canceled, UF/IFAS stepped up to stage the event in Teams and successfully hosted more than 1,300 attendees from across the country.

Sizer - resize any window to an exact, predefined size (i.e., 1920x1080)

Microsoft PowerToys - Image Resizer, PowerRename, FancyZones

Xpdf - pdftopng.exe - convert a large quantity or automate the export of PDFs to PNGs.

Example: Get-Item "Poster_*.pdf" | % {.\xpdf-tools\bin64\pdftopng.exe -q $_.Name ($_.Name.Replace('.pdf',''))}

OBS Studio - enhance and optimize output for live events with a virtual camera.

Move transition - OBS Studio Plugin to move sources to a new position during scene transition

obs-ndi - NewTek NDI™ integration into OBS Studio adds simple audio/video input and output over IP

NDI® Tools - free suite of applications designed to introduce you to the world of IP

VB-CABLE - a virtual audio device working as virtual audio cable - useful in OBS for audio output from a prerecorded video

Greenshot - screen capture software

ScreenToGif - Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor with output to GIF or MP4

PowerPoint morph transition - animate smooth movement from one slide to the next

PowerPoint Presenter Coach - help your presenters improve their presentations

PowerPoint sharing in Teams - Save bandwidth up to 90%

Live Events best practices - document from the Microsoft Education Engineering Engagement Team

Aka.my URL Shortener - inexpensive for feature allowing changing target URL of a short URL (helpful for live event links provided externally to the team)

Graphics inspirations: unDraw | humaaans | blackillustrations | lukaszadam | Unsplash | Pexels | NoDesign.dev

YouTube video download - just change the domain in the URL from youtube.com to youtubepp.com

Attendee - conference experience overview for attendees

Presenter - presenter's experience for presenting their work