MICT-Microsoft Office PowerPoint Basic

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Course Duration: 2 Days
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This short course is intended for people who need to plan, produce, use and evaluate presentations using a Graphical User Interface (GUI)-based presentation application either as a user of computers or as basic knowledge for a career needing this competency.

Course Duration: 2 Days
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After completing this course, the learner will be able to:

  • Prepare and produce a presentation according to a specified brief
  • Adjust settings to customise the view and preferences of the presentation application
  • Work with multiple presentations
  • Work within the policies, procedures and requirements of the organisation
  • Understand the implications of application and formatting settings
  • Use special presentation effects
  • Change the slide format of a presentation, according to given specifications
  • Apply special formatting to a presentation, according to given specifications, to enhance the presentation
  • Import images into a presentation
  • Create a template for presentation purposes using available features
  • Save a new template with a specific name in a specific folder
  • Use a created template to produce a presentation which is saved using a specific name
  • Edit a created template according to user requirements
Course Duration: 2 Days
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PREPARE AND PRODUCE A PRESENTATION

  1. MS PowerPoint
    1. Start MS PowerPoint
    2. Understand the screen parts
    3. Locations and functions of menu items
  2. Prepare and produce a presentation according to a specified brief
    1. Prepare a presentation to meet the requirements of a supplied brief
      • Insert a new slide
    2. Save the presentation (preserve)
  3. Adjust settings to customise the view and preferences of the presentation application
    1. Increase and decrease the view
    2. Change the view mode
      • Slide Sorter view
      • Notes Page view
      • Master views
      • Slide Show view
      • Presenter view
      • Reading view
      • Views for preparing and printing your presentation
    3. Switch toolbar menus off and on
  4. Work with multiple presentations
    1. Open a number of existing presentations
    2. Switch control between the open presentations
    3. Manipulate text between active presentations (cut, copy, paste)
  5. Work within the policies, procedures and requirements of the organisation
    1. Performance of all elements complies with the laws of South Africa
    2. Activities must comply with any policies, procedures and requirements of the organisations involved, the ethical codes of relevant professional bodies and any relevant legislative and/ or regulatory requirements
    3. Perform work within the normal range of time and cost that would be expected in a professional environment

Class Activity 1: Prepare and produce a presentation

FORMAT THE PRESENTATION

  1. Use special presentation effects
    1. Change the format of text
      • Change the fonts on a single slide
      • Change the fonts throughout your presentation
      • Special effects in font used for presentation titles
    2. Set, reset and remove tabs
    3. Apply bullets and numbers to text and remove it from text
    4. Change bullet formats
    5. Apply numbering to text and remove it from text

    Class Activity 2: Use special presentation effects

  2. Format a presentation according to given specifications
    1. Change the slide format of a presentation
    2. Methods of automatically formatting a presentation
    3. Create a presentation using a presentation design template
    4. Change the slide layout
    5. Change the background fill colour of the slide
      • Use a picture as a watermark
      • Use a text box or WordArt as a watermark
      • Graphic or Image
  3. Apply special formatting to a presentation, according to given specifications, to enhance the presentation
    1. Add a footer to a presentation
    2. Add the current date and time to a presentation
    3. Add page numbers to a presentation
    4. Add notes as an aid to the presentation
  4. Add an image to a presentation slide
    1. Resize images

Class Activity 3: Format a presentation

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