Configure default Brainshark settings – Showpad Help Center

Use the Brainshark settings to set company-wide defaults for how Brainsharks behave in Showpad. From here, you control presentation properties, the player and viewer experience, and the format of question slides. A shared pronunciation dictionary also improves AI-generated narration across your Brainsharks.

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Key features

Set company-wide defaults for Brainsharks
Control how the player and viewer behave for sellers
Choose a default player theme and let authors override it
Set the format, colors, and defaults for question slides
Manage a pronunciation dictionary for AI-generated narration

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Plan: eOS Expert

Add-on: Expert AI Bundle

Permissions: Administrator

The quick way

In the Admin App, click the gear icon to open the Settings.
Expand Brainsharks and select Properties, Player & Viewer, or Question Slides.
Adjust the options you need. Changes apply company-wide.
To adjust how narration is pronounced, go to Pronunciation Dictionary.

Do this step by step

Open the Brainshark settings

In the Admin App, click the gear icon to open the Settings.
Expand Brainsharks.
Select one of the three tabs: Properties, Player & Viewer, or Question Slides.

Configure Properties

The Properties tab sets company-wide general properties for Brainsharks.

Setting	Description
Author Per Slide	Select Allow authors to set an author per slide to let authors add a different author on individual slides.
Email Receipts on URL	Select Enable email receipts on URL to send a receipt when a Brainshark is viewed through a URL. Choose Send email receipt before viewing, Send email receipt after viewing, or both.
Background Audio	Select Allow use of background audio in presentations to let authors add background audio. Select Allow authors to upload background audio files for use in their presentations to let them upload their own audio files.
Save Uploaded PPT Files	Select Save uploaded PPT files as attachments in a presentation to keep the original PowerPoint file as a downloadable attachment.

Configure Player & Viewer

The Player & Viewer tab controls how Brainsharks look and behave when sellers open them.

Setting	Description
Appearance	Set the Default theme for the player: Modern light, Modern dark, Classic light, or Classic dark. Select Allow authors to override default theme to let authors change it per Brainshark.
Slide Notes	Select Default setting for Read Slide Notes to make slide notes readable in the player. Select Allow authors to override default to let authors change it. Select Open slide notes by default to expand the notes panel when the player launches.
Captions	Select Show captions when player is launched to display closed captions automatically. Select Allow authors to override this setting to let authors change it.
FAQ	Select Display FAQ to show the FAQ in the viewer. Select Allow authors to override default to let authors change it.
Print Slides	Select Allow authors to enable slide printing to let authors turn on slide printing for their Brainsharks.

Configure Question Slides

The Question Slides tab sets the format for company question slides. It has two sections: Modern question slides and Legacy question slides.

To configure Modern question slides:

Under Slide colors, set the Default background color. Choose Match player theme to follow the player's light or dark theme, or Custom color to set your own.
Select Allow authors to override default background color to let authors change the background per question slide.
Use the Slide preview with the Light player and Dark player tabs to check how questions look in each theme.

To configure Legacy question slides, use the following settings:

Setting	Description
Background image	Select Use custom background image for question slides to replace the default background with your own image.
Background color	Set the slide background color. The default is `#EEEEEE`.
Text color	Set the question and answer text color. The default is `#000000`.
Poll graph color	Set the color of the poll result bars. The default is `#336699`.

To configure additional settings:

Under Retries, select Allow authors to specify retries for questions to let authors give viewers more than one attempt at a question.
Under Likert scale default labels, set the five default labels used for Likert-scale questions. Each label is limited to 30 characters. The defaults are Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neutral, Agree, and Strongly Agree.
Select Allow authors to override defaults to let authors edit these labels per question.

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