Visual PowerPoint

Course Description

In today’s professional landscape, PowerPoint presentations can be effective platforms for sharing information and garnering audience interest and support. At the same time, a poorly designed PowerPoint slideshow can quickly turn an audience away. By focusing on how to apply basic design principles to slideshow creation, this course will help learners use Microsoft’s PowerPoint 365 software to build visually engaging slideshow presentations. Learners will consider how to select images and photographs for use in slides, the importance of arrangement and placement of images, the use of tools like Shapes and SmartArt, methods for presenting data, and the selection of colors and fonts that increase the readability of content.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

• Define basic design principles, such as readability, color, consistency, contrast, arrangement, and information display
• Explain how font choice and color can affect slideshow readability
• Design slides that effectively implement the principles of consistency and contrast
• Place images throughout a presentation while adhering to the principles of proximity, alignment, repetition, space, and the "big picture"
• Select appealing and appropriate images to use in a slideshow
• Use photographs in a slideshow as an attention grabber and storytelling device
• Utilize the Shapes and SmartArt tools to communicate concepts visually
• Present data clearly and effectively
• Consider how design trends can be applied to slideshow presentation