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.

Course details

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

Course outline

Day 1:

• PP basics/menus:
• Toolbars – standard, formatting, animation effects, common tasks, drawing
• PP views and previews (animation preview from the “slide show” menu) and also about the B/W view (ALSO the function of the “slide miniature” - “view menu)
• 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)
• Slide formatting (background, slide layout, color scheme, apply design)
• Inserting text and objects: pictures, sounds, word tables, excel sheets + excel chart (paste special & “Insert Chart” button), arrow, lines, shapes
  -image border, shadow, etc.
  -media
  -wordArt
  -formatting the inserted objects; use of guides
• Export to Word

Day 2:

• Grouping and ungrouping of slide elements, bring to front/send to back
• Animations (custom animation effects, text, pictures + animation preview)
• 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
• Other presentation options: header, footer, slide number, navigation buttons
• Organization Chart (explanations, examples, in-class task)

Useful online resources

PPT 2003
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/office/ppt03/
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR006183273.aspx
http://getit.rutgers.edu/tutorials/powerpoint/index.html

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