CUNY Academic Commons

Hi Jill,

I love the crash course on Open Access Publishing presentation — great work! Unfortunately, I don’t believe the Commons supports embedding Google Doc presentations. I think that since the Commons is a multisite installation direct embedding is a security risk. That being said, there are other ways you could embed your presentation. I would suggest looking over the How to Embed A Presentation codex page for some other options: http://codex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blogs/how-to-embed-a-presentation/

Best,
Sarah

Hi everyone,

Resurrecting this because we’re now trying to use Ray’s new plugin to embed a Google Presentation and it’s not showing up. We enabled the plugin and entered this as the shortcode:

[gdoc link=”http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcdjz44h_20234b74rd6″ size=”small”]

Any ideas? Or has anyone had similar issues? Many thanks!

Best.
Maura

Thanks Scott! I added the https and it does seem to be published to the web — I wonder is there anyone that’s using this successfully and can take a screenshot of the dashboard so I can be sure I’m doing this right? Thanks!

Thanks Matt! Very strange, ours is formatted the same and still not showing up. Ours is a Gdocs presentation — wondering if that makes a difference? We’ll keep noodling on it.

Maura,
I think that you are using an old version of Google Docs and that the link you sent requires the user to be logged in to Google which may not be compatible with the Ray’s plugin. When I tried your link directly in a browser it asked me to login before it showed the presentation.

I created a new Google presentation and got the link it was in the format of

https://docs.google.com/presentation/pub?id=xxxxx
Yours is in
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=xxxx

Here is a link about the new version of google Docs: http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&p=new_presentations_migrate&answer=2611259

I made a copy of the presentation you liked to and it gave me a note that said “this presentation you will soon be upgraded to the new version of Google Docs” and then the a link to the URL above about the new docs.

In there’s a link to these instructions on importing your slides to a new presentation:
http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1694982

I followed those instructions with my copy of your document and then published to the web and added to Ray’s shortcode and it worked. Here is what worked for me
[gdoc link=”https://docs.google.com/presentation/pub?id=1mGpQLx3MFBXQPNbpph11t2HZFwR570lukNIFSQmu5HU&start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ height=”800″]
 You can use that or go through the process yourself and import the slides to a new presentation.

Hope that works for you.
Best,
Chris