I work with about 60 schools and many classrooms and would like to replace Power
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Question
I work with about 60 schools and many classrooms and would like to replace Powerpoint entirely (for many reasons). Moving to the browser and writing HTML and assets in a CMS that publishes to templates is standard, but we lose one key thing in the classroom environment: animations.
What I'm imagining is having our classes in the browser and writing them in an authoring tool that would allow the class writers to select CSS/JS animations (for text, images or scrolling (ex: next page/section animations)) as well as assets (sound, video, images) to work with.
I am not sure if anything like this exists, but if anyone has any ideas I'd greatly appreciate the feedback!
Edit: I should have included that by "replace Powerpoint entirely" I do not mean with a free or alternative version of Powerpoint (ex: WPS, LibreOffice).
Edit 2: By "class" I am talking about classes with students. I'm looking to replicate a Powerpoint experience in-browser and would like a CMS/authoring tool that allows me to build such an experience. As I mentioned above, most CMS's can do all this, but they are lacking animations. I'd like a CMS that can save a pre-set bank of CSS/JS animations that I can use to more easily create my content.
Explanation / Answer
I had difficulty parsing your needs and I think it might be because the word "class" could have at least three meanings in your text. Nevertheless, I think you are looking for libraries that allow you to animate HTML documents in ways that are similar to animations available in PowerPoint.
If I am right, then the blog post "18 CSS Effect Libraries for Creating Beautiful Animations" should give you tons of tools.