MS PowerPoint - Guides for Good Presentations

The course focuses on creating and managing efficient presentations, timing details, creating organizational charts as well as dealing with graphic and dynamic elements.

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Course details

Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Duration: 3 days
Requirements for pass: course assignment & minimum attendance - 2 days
When the course is offered: see the list of courses for the current semester and/or in SITS

Course outline
Course material on Moodle: CEU E-Learning Course on PowerPoint for Beginners

Day 1:

• PP basics/menus:
• Toolbars – standard, formatting, animation effects, common tasks, drawing
• Page setup and most common menus
  
• Creating the structure of a presentation in Outline view
• Inserting, moving, deleting, duplicating slides (outline vs. Slide Sorter view)
• Inserting text and objects
• SmartArt objects

Day 2:

• Designs: use of different design templates, make changes in templates
• Animations (custom animation effects, text, pictures + animation preview)
• Other presentation options: header, footer, slide number, navigation buttons
• Grouping and ungrouping of slide elements, bring to front/send to back Creating the slide show (transitions, timing, recording etc.)
• In-presentation actions: “pen” use, hide slide, “pack and go”
• A list of Dos and Don’ts/tips (colors, fonts, unity, simple graphics)

Day 3:

• Printing your presentation
• Importing charts from Excel. Download sample Excel file
• How to write a good presentation: impressing your audience and give a successful lecture
• Presentation techniques, DOs and DON`Ts

Useful online resources

PPT 2013
http://www.powerpoint-2013-tutorials.com/
http://www.teachucomp.com/how-to-use-slide-masters-in-powerpoint/
http://getit.rutgers.edu/tutorials/powerpoint/index.html

 

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