Employment & Training Resources - Curriculum for MS PowerPoint Level 2 Workshop

Important Prerequisite: You must pass the MS PowerPoint Prove It!® Test in order to register for this workshop.

MS POWERPOINT XP LEVEL 2 is an intensive 2-day computer workshop. It includes a morning instructor-led session and an afternoon lab. It will generally follow this agenda:

DAY 1

9:00-9:30	Introduction, attendance, quick overview of concepts and techniques to be used later in the workshop
9:30 - 10:30	Creating a custom template (changing the slide background, inserting graphics, adding a footer, formatting bullets, modifying the Slide Master)
10:30 - 10:45	BREAK
10:45 - 1:00	Creating presentations with special effects (rotating, flipping, combining and separating objects, changing the order of objects, inserting a sound clip, applying a custom animation to an object and changing the order of animation)
1:00-2:00	LUNCH BREAK
2:00-4:00	LAB (participants have a chance to practice the material taught in the morning session)

DAY 2

9:00-9:30	Warm-up and review of difficult material from Day 1 (if needed)
9:30-10:30	Delivering a presentation (sending slides to MS Word, using pointer and pen during a presentation, using Meeting Minder, setting up a show to run automatically, preparing a presentation to take it on the road)
10:30-10:45	BREAK
10:45-11:45	Creating presentations for the Web (adding hyperlinks, adding an MS Excel chart or an MS Word table to a slide, publishing a presentation to the Web and viewing it)
11:45-12:45	Reviewing a presentation (creating a presentation from a Word outline, sending a presentation for review via a server, reviewing a presentation, applying reviewer changes)
1:00-2:00	LUNCH BREAK
2:00-4:00	LAB (participants have a chance to practice the material taught in the morning session)

PREREQUISITES

Attention to details and good ability to follow written instructions

Solid basic computer skills:

opening and closing a program
clicking, double-clicking and right-clicking
selecting (highlighting) text
minimizing and maximizing windows
scrolling up and down, left and right
finding files on and saving them to a floppy or hard drive

Previous experience with PowerPoint 2002 or 2003 (at least 10 hours) and familiarity with the following:

opening and running a slide presentation
working with Task Pane
adding new slides with certain layouts, hiding slides, and deleting slides
entering, editing and aligning text on a slide; demoting and promoting bullets
adding Speaker Notes
inserting clip art
applying a color scheme and design templates
adding transition effects and animation to a slide show

CLASS MATERIALS

We offer to all participants a CD with all class materials. Please keep in mind the following:

You can buy the CD only if you have attended both days of the workshop
The price is $5 (cash only accepted)
CD will be sold only on day 2 of the workshop in the afternoon. You cannot purchase it on a later date

HOW TO PREPARE FOR THIS WORKSHOP

Attend our workshops Intro to Personal Computers, Intro to Windows, and MS PowerPoint Level 1 (they are not mandatory, but can be very helpful)
Use free PowerPoint on-line tutorials (check with our Resource Room staff for more information)

***Note: If you want to save and take home some of your class work, please bring 2 blank floppy disks, IBM compatible.

Page last updated on October 22, 2007

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