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Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 2019/365

Course ID: OST-3100AIE
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This in-depth course introduces PowerPoint's functions and teaches you how to plan and create professional-quality presentations. Learn how to catch your audience's attention with PowerPoint's visual features like photo album. As you become acquainted to Office 365, you also learn how to utilize OneDrive and PowerPoint Online's cross-functionality – saving, editing and sharing your presentations online. This course is perfect for beginners looking to learn how to use the latest PowerPoint software. You have an opportunity to create a custom presentation with content specific to your needs.

Course Objectives

Master PowerPoint skills that help you produce better presentations

Become an integral company team member with professional presentation design skills

Gain skills that transfer to any organization and look great on your resume

Outline of Instruction

The PowerPoint 2019 Interface
Explores the basic features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2019, such as the Ribbon, and learn how to start the PowerPoint program and plan a presentation. Practice working with different views, task panes, tabs and templates.

Creating Presentations
Create a presentation from scratch by choosing a theme and creating slides with a variety of slide layouts. Explore the Live Preview feature and learn how to save a file for future use. Create and edit slides in Slide Pane and Outline view. Explore ways to play a slideshow.

Working With Files and Creating and Editing Tables
Including tables in your presentation lets you present a lot of information in a compact space. Learn to add, revise and format tables, as well as multiple ways to open a presentation. Find how to preserve different versions of your work by saving with new file names.

Creating Professional Presentations
Explore the Spelling, AutoCorrect, Thesaurus and Smart Lookup features. Learn to print your presentation as slides, an outline, handouts or notes pages.

Working With the Images Group
Learn how to embellish your slides with media images, including online pictures, icons, 3D models and photographs, as well as how to download an image from a website and insert the image on a slide.

WordArt and the Illustrations Group
Get instructions for using WordArt, Shapes, Icons, 3D Models and SmartArt Graphics. Learn how to transform text into colorful WordArt objects and add Icons and 3D Models. Practice drawing and filling shapes with color and special effects. Learn to group and edit the objects you create and add visual sophistication to your text with SmartArt Graphics.

All About Charts
Create a chart to illustrate statistical data. Explore chart components and learn how to add and edit specific chart elements. Discover how to change the look of your chart by using the options on the Chart Tools contextual tab and the chart-formatting buttons.

Making Global Changes to a Presentation
Learn how to make global changes to slides, handouts and notes and to modify your presentation's background or theme colors.

Creating Links
Enliven your presentation as you create links from text or objects to other slides, presentations, documents and webpages, and add sounds and 3D effects if desired. Learn a Zoom feature that sets up presenter-driven links between slides in a presentation.

Applying Animation to Slides, Text and Objects
Explores slide transitions and the Transition tab options. Apply animation to text and slide objects and use the Animations tab to add animation to slide or layout masters. Find out how to add sound effects, such as a chime or coin sound, to slide transitions.

Adding Advanced Animation Effects to Text and Objects
Using the Animation Pane, add and reorder animated text and objects on slides. Discover how to apply advanced animation effects to text and objects on slides and slide and layout masters, as well as adding an audio clip to your presentation.

Sharing and Saving Your Presentations
Learn different ways to save and share a presentation. Practice converting a presentation into a PDF file, so it's accessible on computers without PowerPoint 2019. Learn to open, edit and share your presentation online with PowerPoint Online and a Windows OneDrive account, as well as how to transform your presentation into a video.

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Industry Standard, State or National Certification

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None

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Certification Learning Outcomes/Requirements

CE or CU Articulation

Prerequisites

N/A

Learning Supplies Needed

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 is 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.

Clinical Site/Special Facilities

N/A

Requirements for Successful Completion

90% attendance
Students must 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. The final exam must be taken by the Wake Tech course end date.