Course : Getting Started with PowerPoint

TOSA® Certification Option

Getting Started with PowerPoint

TOSA® Certification Option
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This course will train you to create attractive, dynamic presentations with PowerPoint. You’ll learn how to design, personalize, distribute and share them in order to improve the quality of your communication. At the end of the training, you’ll be able to certify your skills by taking the TOSA® exam.


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Price : 760 € E.T.
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This course will train you to create attractive, dynamic presentations with PowerPoint. You’ll learn how to design, personalize, distribute and share them in order to improve the quality of your communication. At the end of the training, you’ll be able to certify your skills by taking the TOSA® exam.

Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
  • Get familiar with the PowerPoint work environment
  • Add slides and choose your presentation with themes and masters
  • Integrate content and apply styles to the slide text
  • Create diagrams and processes in slides
  • Insert tables in the presentation
  • Animate objects in the presentation and add animations and transitions to make it more dynamic

Intended audience
General public.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the Windows environment.

Course schedule

Issues of the training

  • Defining the principles of successful communication.
  • Identifying what PowerPoint contributes.
Storyboarding workshops
Demonstration and experience sharing.

The PowerPoint interface.

  • The Office button, the Backstage menu.
  • Navigating PowerPoint: The ribbon, tabs, command groups.
  • Identifying the Quick Access toolbar, the box launcher.
  • Personalizing your environment: the ruler, the grid, the guides. The different display modes.
Hands-on work
Getting started with the interface.

Creating a new presentation

  • Creating a presentation. Applying and varying a theme.
  • Inserting a slide, choosing a layout.
  • Customizing the visual style: Using slide masters.
Hands-on work
Creating a presentation. Using a theme. Inserting slides.

Entering and editing text

  • Inserting a text field: entering and editing.
  • Changing alignment, line spacing, paragraph spacing.
  • Applying a quick style, an effect.
  • Incorporating a numbered or bulleted list.
Hands-on work
Insert a text box. Modify text attributes. Insert bullets, numbering.

Enhancing your presentations

  • Inserting or modifying a shape: entering text, assigning colors, style, effects.
  • Incorporating an image, a plan.
  • Creating a simple process using the shapes.
  • Designing a process, a SmartArt flowchart.
Hands-on work
Insert shapes and images, apply effects. Align, group and ungroup.

Incorporating tables and external objects

  • Incorporating a table and applying a style. Inserting/deleting rows and columns.
  • Merging/splitting cells, changing alignments.
  • Inserting an Excel chart.
Hands-on work
Inserting a table, apply a style, merge and split cells.

Animating a PowerPoint

  • Animating a text, an object, etc.
  • Modifying the parameters of the animations.
  • Setting up transitions.
Hands-on work
Animate a title, a shape and create transition effects.

Broadcasting and sharing the slideshow

  • Saving as PDF.
  • Sharing a presentation on the Drive.
  • Optimizing printing options.
Hands-on work
Preparing for printing. Optional: Certifying your skills with TOSA®.


Certification
If registering for the TOSA® certification option, you must do so at the same time as course registration. The exam is made up of a 60-minute adaptive test with 35 exercises. The result indicates your skill level. Merely taking the course is not sufficient to achieve a maximum score. The exam is proctored by the instructor and is carried out online during the last half-hour of the course. If taking place in a remote classroom, the exam must be both scheduled and then taken online within 4 weeks following the start of your session.

Practical details
Exercise
Discussions, experience-sharing, demonstrations, tutorials, and real cases to help you throughout the training.
Teaching methods;
Active learning based on discussions, real-world cases, practice exercises if taking the TOSA® certification exam, and an evaluation of what was learned from the training.

Customer reviews
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Dates and locations
Select your location or opt for the remote class then choose your date.
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