1. Master PowerPoint skills that help you produce better presentations.
   
2. Become an integral company team member with professional presentation design skills.
   
3. Gain skills that transfer to any organization and look great on your résumé.

1. Lesson 01 - The PowerPoint 2019 Interface
   
   This lesson explores the basic features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2019. You'll explore the Ribbon and learn how to start the PowerPoint program and plan a presentation. You'll also practice working with different views, task panes, tabs, and templates.
2. Lesson 02 - Creating Presentations
   
   Now that you know the basics of PowerPoint, it's time to create a presentation from scratch. You'll start by choosing a theme for a presentation and create slides with a variety of slide layouts. You'll explore the Live Preview feature and learn how to save a file for future use. You'll also create and edit slides in Slide pane and Outline view. Finally, you'll explore ways to play a slide show.
3. Lesson 03 - Working With Files and Creating and Editing Tables
   
   Including tables in your presentation lets you present a lot of information in a compact space. In this lesson you'll add, revise and format tables. You'll also explore multiple ways to open a presentation. Then, you'll learn how to preserve different versions of your work by saving with new file names.
4. Lesson 04 - Creating Professional Presentations
   
   This lesson covers two topics: proofreading and printing. You'll explore the Spelling, AutoCorrect, Thesaurus and Smart Lookup feature. You'll learn to print your presentation as slides, an outline, handouts and notes pages. This versatility really helps you connect with audience members!
5. Lesson 05 - Working With the Images Group
   
   This lesson switches gears and works with images instead of text. You'll learn how to embellish your slides with media images, including online pictures, Icons, 3D models and photographs. You'll also learn how to download an image from a website and insert the image on a slide.
6. Lesson 06 - WordArt and the Illustrations Group
   
   This lesson includes instructions for using WordArt, Shapes, Icons, 3D Models and SmartArt Graphics. You'll then learn how to transform text into colorful WordArt objects and add Icons and 3D Models. You'll also practice drawing and filling shapes with color and special effects. Finally, you'll learn to group and edit the objects you create and add visual sophistication to your text with SmartArt Graphics.
7. Lesson 07 - All About Charts
   
   In this lesson, you'll create a chart to illustrate statistical data. You'll explore chart components and learn how to add and edit specific chart elements. You'll discover how to change the look of your chart by using the options on the Chart Tools contextual tab and the chart formatting buttons.
8. Lesson 08 - Making Global Changes to a Presentation
   
   Making duplicate changes to dozens of PowerPoint slides is boring and time-consuming. This lesson focuses on making global changes to slides, handouts, and notes. You'll also make global changes to modify your presentation's background or theme colors.
9. Lesson 09 - Creating Links
   
   In this lesson, you'll work with hyperlinks and action buttons. Enliven your presentation as you create links from text or objects to other slides, presentations, documents, and web pages. You can add sounds and 3D effects if desired. Also introduced in this lesson is the Zoom feature which sets up presenter-driven links between slides in a presentation.
10. Lesson 10 - Applying Animation to Slides, Text, and Objects
    
    This lesson explores slide transitions and the Transition tab options. You'll apply animation to text and slide objects and use the Animations tab to add animation to slide or layout masters. You'll also find out how to add sound effects, such as a chime or coin sound, to slide transitions.
11. Lesson 11 - Adding Advanced Animation Effects to Text and Objects
    
    Using the Animation Pane, you'll add and reorder animated text and objects on slides. You'll discover how to apply advanced animation effects to text and objects on slides, and slide and layout masters. You'll also add an audio clip to your presentation.
12. Lesson 12 - Sharing and Saving Your Presentations
    
    In this lesson, you'll focus on different ways to save and share a presentation. You'll practice converting a presentation into a PDF file, so it's accessible on computers without PowerPoint 2019. You'll learn to open, edit, and share your presentation online with PowerPoint Online and a Windows OneDrive account. Last, you'll learn how to transform your presentation into a video.

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Hardware Requirements:
This course must be taken on a PC. Macs are not compatible.

Software Requirements:
PC: Windows 10 or later.
Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge is also compatible.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 (desktop version) available to download with the desktop version of Microsoft 365, or Microsoft Office Home and Student 2019 (not included in enrollment).
Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:
Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

1. Attendance 90% or above
2. Participation
3. • Students must successfully pass 10 quizzes with a minimum grade of 70% by the second quiz attempt.
   • If all quizzes are not passed with 70 or better by the second attempt, the final exam score must be 70% or higher on the first attempt for successful completion.
   • The Final Exam must be taken by the Wake Tech course end date.

If you want to learn the 2019 version of Microsoft PowerPoint, this course is for you!