Microsoft PowerPoint is at the heart of effective communication in business. It's central to the way businesses make decisions and communicate analysis. Our Filtered PowerPoint course syllabus is designed to train users to produce engaging and illuminating slides efficiently and consistently.
Our course authors have a background in business strategy and face-to-face training, where quality and impact of PowerPoint presentations is paramount. We don't aim to teach everything PowerPoint can do – but exclusively everything that you need it to do to excel professionally.
Your personal learning objective will be focused further because we use simple questions and a clever algorithm (our Filter) to determine and present only material you need to know, and nothing you already know.
Our course is divided into 5 sections.
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- Foundation: PowerPoint terminology and enough functionality just to get going.
- Basic slide editing: teaches basic techniques to add diagrams and text to slides effectively.
- Administration and efficiency: how to produce presentations collaboratively, tailor PowerPoint settings and printing to optimize your interaction.
- Communicating analysis: how to present data and analysis accurately and powerfully.
- Making an impact: incorporating images and animation and present your slides so their message hits home.
Together these five sections comprise 23 units, and the units are themselves broken down into bite-sized modules.
Our training currently includes two courses teaching three versions of Microsoft PowerPoint: PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 (that's one course) and PowerPoint 2013 or 365 (the other course). Once you've signed up you will have access to all versions – and we'll add new versions to your course as Microsoft release new versions of PowerPoint.
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Filtered Microsoft PowerPoint online course contents
Section 1: Foundation
Unit 1.1 - The PowerPoint interface
Understanding and working with the PowerPoint interface including: the Outline & Slides pane; the Ribbon; Quick Access toolbar; notes pane and the Status Bar. Customising the interface to work the way you want it to and increase productivity.
Unit 1.2 - Getting started
Working with objects in PowerPoint. Copying and moving objects. Formatting including the format painter. Fonts and effects. Inserting new slides. Slide layout. Selecting multiple objects. Grouping objects.
Unit 1.3 - Terminology and overview
The point and the power of PowerPoint. The different objects that you can include on a slide. Six slides that demonstrate the six content types: Table, Chart, Graphic, Picture, Clip art, Media clip (movie).
Unit 1.4 - Templates and Slide Masters
How to use themes, masters and templates to make slide design quick and consistent. Layouts and footers.
Unit 1.5 - Principles of slide design
Principles to guide good, clean design and formatting of slides. Making your slides clearer. Creating professional-looking slides with real impact.
Section 2: Basic slide editing
Unit 2.1 - SmartArt
How to create all kinds of business and other diagrams quickly and efficiently using SmartArt. SmartArt editing tools. Organisation chart example . Diagrams with pictures. Animated diagrams.
Unit 2.2 - Drawing shapes and lines
How to draw diagrams using shapes and lines. Inserting and formatting shapes and images. Working with lines and connectors.
Unit 2.3 - Text boxes
How to include and format text in slides. Placeholders and how to use them. Text levels. Using Word Art to add visual appeal.
Unit 2.4 - Aligning objects
Aligning elements of a slide so formatting looks professional. Tools and features to aid consistent alignment. Using the Grouping and Arrange features to format slides professionally and quickly.
Unit 2.5 - Tips and shortcuts
Tips and tricks to save time and make your use of PowerPoint more efficient and effective. Printable shortcut card with dozens of keyboard shortcuts to speed up your work in PowerPoint.
Section 3: Administration and efficiency
Unit 3.1 - Editing and working collaboratively
Collaborating with colleagues on a presentation. Adding comments and notes. Arranging windows (to edit multiple presentations). Page numbers, date and time stamps.
Unit 3.2 - Printing and other output
Printing set-up and settings. Printing selected slides. Including notes with your printouts. Producing handouts for an audience. Publishing a presentation as a PDF file.
Unit 3.3 - Customising PowerPoint
Changing permanent and default PowerPoint settings. AutoCorrect options. The most useful PowerPoint options for creating and running presentations.
Unit 3.4 - Housekeeping
Good practices in managing PowerPoint files including naming conventions, file extensions, folder structure and backing up.
Section 4: Communicating analysis
Unit 4.1 - Tables
How to use PowerPoint tables to present lists and schedules of figures and data neatly and quickly. Freehand tables. Text alignment in tables.
Unit 4.2 - Graphs and charts - how?
How to incorporate Excel graphs and charts into a slide. Editing charts. Working with chart types and layouts. Animating charts element by element.
Unit 4.3 - Graphs and charts - when and why?
The guiding principles for using charts to display data effectively. Which chart types to use for which types of data. The concept of data ink and what it means for great charts.
Unit 4.4 - Making a presentation flow
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How to make a presentation flow from slide to slide. Separator slides. Orientation within a presentation using icons, maps and headings. Action buttons. Hyperlinks.
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Unit 4.5 - Slide-type toolkit
A toolkit of effective slide types, and when to deploy them. Timeline slides. Segmentation slides. Breakdown and drill down slides. Performance over time. Waterfall diagrams.
Section 5: Making an impact
Unit 5.1 - Incorporating images
When and why to use images. How to insert and edit images. Cropping, resizing and manipulating images. Screenshots and videos. Removing picture backgrounds. Applying artistic effects.
Unit 5.2 - Transitions and animation
Adding and controlling transition effects between slides. Detailed animation and transition options. Animating individual elements of text boxes, charts and diagrams. Using animation to make your presentation unforgettable instead of unbearable.
Unit 5.3 - Presenting your slides
Presenter tools and features. Custom slide shows. Annotating your slide during a talk. Navigating a presentation. Self-running presentations. Things that can go wrong and how to avoid them.
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Unit 5.4 - What not to do?
Pitfalls to beware of.
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Note: this syllabus covers functionality available in the latest version of Microsoft PowerPoint (2013) – courses for earlier versions do not (of course) cover functionality not supported by those versions of PowerPoint.
