PowerPoint: Design and animate your presentation

This training course is available to all staff and postgraduate students. You'll learn how to use animation and check the accessibility of your presentations.

Before you begin

You should be confident with using the Windows environment and familiar with using Office. You should also be able to create a PowerPoint presentation, use slide layouts and use different views of the slide show. If this is not the case we recommend you take our PowerPoint - Get started with making presentations course first.

Delivery Method: Tutor led
Course Duration: 1 hour

What you will learn

Microsoft PowerPoint is a program used to make animated presentations. This course is taught through a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practice. You will learn how to:

merge slides from more than one presentation to re-use content you already have
use PowerPoint Designer, animation and slide transitions to improve the look of your presentation
create and animate SmartArt to display graphical information
check accessibility as you work
use Sway to present to an online community

Book a place

Please contact the IT Training team to arrange a session.

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