This click tutorial is going to show you how to save a piece of a PowerPoint to a PDF file and also include the speaker notes so that your instructor can read and grade you on your speaker notes as well as the content of your slides so here you have your presentation in your PowerPoint and you'll see that you have your title slide and your content slides and if you're using speaker notes you can view them by clicking notes and have them at the bottom so whatever notes you add will be down here so we'll just write speaker notes so we can see them synchronize added here now when you upload this as a PowerPoint to our blackboard system it will not include the speaker notes so in order to have your instructor see your speaker notes you'll have to save it as a PDF and upload it that way to do this you simply go to file save as you're going to choose where you want to save it in your computer you're going to give it a title so we'll do student project milestone one for example and here you can see the save as type and you'll want to choose PDF from this drop-down list and here's PDF select that I will have this open file after publishing so you can just check to make sure that everything went through properly and here in the options tab is where you'll select the format so that you can see the speaker notes as well as the slides so you can see here under publish options it says published what and it gives you some choices so know the set of slides you're going to choose notes pages and that will show both the slides and the notes pages in your PDF file and make sure that it stays on all four the range so that your entire presentation is printed into the PDF and once you make those that change right there you simply click OK and then you can click Save you'll see that as soon as it's done publishing to PDF it will pop up and we can take a look so you see here here's the title slide that you had that didn't have any speaker notes and here's the first slide that you had in your content and you'll see that you can see easily our speaker notes right here so this way when you submit this PDF file your instructor can see both the content of your slides and your additional notes and she and he or she can give you feedback on both.