The shootouts took place in the main ballroom, in the same location where the general sessions and lunch took place. One table was designated for each shootout participant.

At 10:45 a.m., the shootout began. Initially, other keynotes were occurring at the same time. However, by the lunch break, the shootouts were the only session scheduled. The audience built as we extended through the lunch break.

For the competition, participants were asked to pre-create their course, using the source slides provided before the conference. During the shootout itself, they were asked to give a series of 15-minute presentations. Each presentation covered the following:

1. Show the audience the course that was built (using the content as outlined below).
2. Discuss and demonstrate the approach used to convert the slides into a course.
3. Answer any questions from the audience.
4. (As time permits), you are welcome to show snippets of other converted courses.

During the 15-minutes, the goal of the participants was to give delegates enough information to judge their entry across all of the categories in the judging criteria section.

Every 15 minutes, Bryan Chapman or Emma King announced that it was time for the audience to switch to a new table, and off participants went again to the next presentation. This is a new format; in previous shootouts, participants spent 20 minutes developing the material (while the audience watched all building simultaneously), then we gave each team a very short 10 minutes to cover what they had created. This time around, we wanted more time to cover both development and output together in each presentation.

We continued with the 15 minute presentations from 10:45 a.m. (when the shootout began) until 1:30 p.m. when the shootout session ended.

Ballots from audience members were collected, and, while listening to the Improv Teams Workshop, Bryan and Emma tallied the results. The top 3 finishers were announced at the Learning in Excellence Awards.

Here is a summary of the 16-slides they received at the competition:

Debrief checklist: Were you able to finish the entire simulation during the 20 minutes? If not, what percentage was completed? What is the overall size of your completed work (file size)? Tell us if you used audio and/or video in your output. Describe the output created and output options. Is the converted material one large file? A series of separate files? Flash-based? HTML? How do you price your system and/or conversion services? Desktop application? Enterprise system? What is the general price zone? Show the course you created live and discuss how you handled each of the following: What did you do with the narrative text located in the notes field of the PowerPoint presentation? Is the hyperlink on slide #3 still active? How did you handle the transition effects and progressive disclosure (opening items one at a time) on slide #5? What did you do with the embedded questions? Linear, interactive, feedback? Any unique interaction that was added ? Pick a few slides from the presentation and show us (real time) how they were converted.

Judging process:

Each product was rated on a 10-point scale in each category by the audience. Members of the participating companies were not allowed to rate their own products or others in the competition. The scores were averaged to derive the final score, with winners announced in each category. Audience members enjoyed seeing the process of converting PowerPoint slides to e-learning first-hand. The competition was designed as a method for learning what is possible. We saw a wide variety of approaches with different types of output.

Judges rated using the following categories for each product:

• Authoring - Ease of use
• Interactivity
• Professional Quality of Output
• Overall Rating

The scores were then averaged across all participants who submitted a ballot, and then the averages were tallied to determine the winner.

Total range of scores was 28.84 to 34.69. Top score would be 40 points.

Total range of scores was 6.93 to 8.54. Top score would be 10 points.

Total range of scores was 6.86 to 8.24. Top score would be 10 points.

Total range of scores was 7.50 to 9.28. Top score would be 10 points.