Creating Your Own PowerPoint Themes

Name: Creating Your Own PowerPoint Themes
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Mastering the Basics of Creating PowerPoint Templates

Created byRoland Adriano

Last updated 5/2020

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What you'll learn

Explore and understand the basic use of the Slide Master view
Learn how we can edit, design and create layouts or themes using the Slide Master view
Realise its benefits as we go through the actual process of creating a Powerpoint presentation
Create Powerpoint presentations with ease, consistency, creativity and uniformity in terms of layout, style and theme

Course content

5 sections • 14 lectures • 45m total length

All About this Video Course2:22
Find out more about this video and how it may benefit you especially when it comes to using PowerPoint.

Quick introduction of the instructor (Roland Adriano)
Filipino ESL teacher based in Shanghai, China (10 years of experience)
Curriculum developer for an online teaching platform
Public speaker (Toastmasters and TEDx)
Course Objectives1:39
Who can benefit from this video?
What can we learn from this?
Find out here on the advantages of using the Slide Master.

What is the PowerPoint Slide Master View2:49
Slide Master - a very powerful tool in creating your own PowerPoint themes or designing/customising your slide layouts.
Some companies may restrict the use of PowerPoint's default themes, rather they would ask their curriculum developers to start from scratch.
Learn more about Slide Master and how it can make your time efficient when it comes to creating themes and template.
When to use PowerPoint Slide Master1:06
Know when Slide Master is very useful. I'm going to share my thoughts about the times I have to use Slide Master.
What is the Master Layout4:09
In creating themes or templates, the Master Layout stores every change or modification you do and this reflects on all slides. Get to know more about this and what I normally do on the Master Layout when it comes to creating themes or customising slide layouts.
What is the Placeholder1:16
This is where we start creating contents. Know more about the Placeholder here.
Introduction to the Basics of Slide Master View
Master Layout and Placeholder

Creating Content Slides4:21
This is the first of the series of screencasts to demonstrate how I create different kinds of layout and making full use of Slide Master's basic options.
Checking and Previewing the Created Content Slides1:19
Before moving on to another kind of slide layout, let's first check what the changes look like in a Normal Editing View.
Creating Matching Type Activity Layout Slide1:03
The 2nd of the series. Here I'm going to demonstrate how I use different kinds of Placeholders and how I position them across the slides.
Creating Multiple Choice Layout Slide and Reshaping the Placeholders4:32
The 3rd of the series. Another screencast to demonstrate how I make full use of the Placeholder and at the same time, how I reshape the Placeholders. Keep an eye on the reshaping as you can come up with more creative ways on presenting your slides using this function.
Creating a Dialogue Layout Slide3:18
As a Curriculum Developer and being an ESL teacher for 10 years, conversation practice is a must in a class (online/offline). Showing a dialogue layout signals both the teacher and the students about what they're supposed to do. This layout shows another way to stylise your slide layout using the Placeholder and Reshape function.
Accessing some commonly used functions in the Slide Master
UPDATE (MAY 2020): Adding Hyperlink to your PowerPoint Slides10:57
This additional video course demonstrate on how to create hyperlinked slides in your PowerPoint which is good for adding more interaction and excitement to your presentation and even online teaching.

Create Your Own Demo PowerPoint Template
Project Brief and Wrap Up4:58
Let's move on to the project brief and recap of this video class. It's a good way to remember the highlights in case you get confused, perplexed or lost during the course. :)

Also, feel free to download and check my 2 Demo PowerPoint to find out how I customised my layouts using the Slide Master. Be sure to access the Slide Master and check it out!

Requirements

PowerPoint
Designing Layout
Teaching skills (optional)

Description

---MAY 2020 UPDATE---

- I added a new video about hyperlinking slides in PowerPoint.

- This additional video course demonstrate on how to create hyperlinked slides in your PowerPoint which is good for adding more interaction and excitement to your presentation and even online teaching.

- Enjoy the new video!

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As an online ESL instructor, I regularly create and use PowerPoint presentation for my online classes. I realized its difficulties in customizing and designing my layouts in order to suit my teaching style. Furthermore, having a consistent or uniform layout such as object placement or positioning, font size, font types, etc on all my PowerPoint presentations was very time consuming until I came across the Slide Master View function.

In this class, I’m going to share my techniques on how I use the Slide Master View function in creating layouts for my online Powerpoint presentations and at the same time keeping all my PPT’s consistent or uniform with less time consumed.

This class hopes to provide additional information on using PowerPoint especially to those who regularly create PPTs, design PPT’s for online classes or even presentations and for online curriculum developers like me. This is going to open up creative possibilities in your Powerpoint creation while spending less time on designing so you can focus more on the content you want to put.

In this class we will:

A. Explore and understand the basic use of the Slide Master view

B. See how we can edit, design and create themed layouts in the Slide Master view

C. Realise its benefits as we go through the actual process of creating a Powerpoint presentation

There ‘s going to be a project assignment as well where you’re going to show us your Slide Master edits and come up with interesting and an engaging Powerpoint Presentation.

Target students:

- Online curriculum developers who create lessons through Powerpoint

- Presenters

Who this course is for:

Intermediate PowerPoint users
Curriculum developers or designers who use and create Powerpoint presentations for their online/offline classes
Public speakers and presenters who creates Powerpoint presentations and wants consistency on their PPT layouts

Creating Your Own PowerPoint Themes

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Course content

Course Introduction2 lectures • 4min

Introduction to the Basics of PowerPoint Slide Master View4 lectures • 9min

Creating Different PowerPoint Layouts in the Slide Master View6 lectures • 26min

Finalising The PowerPoint Template1 lecture • 2min

Project Brief and Wrap Up1 lecture • 5min

Requirements

Description

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