How to Design and Animate your eCourse in Powerpoint

Name: How to Design and Animate your eCourse in Powerpoint
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Make your eCourse stand OUT. Learn to create beautiful animated slides for your eCourses (MS PowerPoint 2010 or later)

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Created byNata Aliyeva

Last updated 9/2016

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What you'll learn

Create beautiful designs with text, shapes, images, charts, and even video
Learn how to work with templates and save time
Animate absolutely everything on the slides and add slide transitions

Course content

7 sections • 43 lectures • 2h 39m total length

Powerpoint Layouts and Textboxes3:52
We will take a look at powerpoint slide layouts and adding simple textboxes.
Adding Shapes and Images2:45
Learn to add various shapes and images to your slides.
Page Setup: Make sure you do this BEFORE you start creating your slides2:50
One important thing I recommend you do before you start creating your slides. Find out why.
Understanding layers2:01
Learn what layers are and how to move objects 'up' and 'down' the 'stack'.
Designing and Formatting Text and Shapes4:17
Learn simple design and formatting features. Get ready for more advanced things coming up.
Save time: Aligning and editing multiple shapes6:15
Learn a few time saving techniques by working with several shapes at once, automatically aligning them and using format painter.
A few more words on Section 10:50
Wrapping up Section 1: Powerpoint Essentials

Designing background5:04
Learn to style background using solid colours, gradients and textures.
Using images for background5:28
Use images a background to your slides, and make them 'fade' using a simple trick.
Formatting text and WordArt, adding shadows and reflections7:39
Go beyond basic text formatting: learn what is WordArt and how to style it, add shadows and reflections.
Formatting text: Resizing, transforming and using images3:39
More fun with text, learn to transform text with 'warp' effects and use images for text backgrounds
Formatting Shapes, Creating custom shapes, editing images5:11
Learn to edit shapes indefinitely using points. Learn to edit images within shapes.
Combining shapes and grouping objects4:16
Discover a 'secret' treasure of powerpoint - combine shapes feature. Create new custom shapes. Learn to group objects and add multiple-object effects.
Example "About Me" slide4:32
Let's use what we've learned to transform a boring looking 'About me' slide into something much more exciting.
Adding video4:12
Add video to powerpoint!
3D Shapes in Powerpoint8:23
Create 3D shapes and 3D effects.
Working with Tables, Graphs and Diagrams5:46
Learn how to add simple tables, diagrams and charts using powerpoint existing templates and insert Excel objects into powerpoint.
Save time: Working with Templates4:44
Save yourself a ton of time by working with slide masters and creating templates for your slides.
Last words on Section 21:07
Wrapping up Section 2: Powerpoint Design

Entrance Effects4:30
Introduction to animation and working with entrance effects.
Animating text4:31
Learn to animate text in different ways, edit animation effect options and create an assignment timer.
Emphasis Effects and Combining Animations2:48
Animate objects on the slide using emphasis effects. Combine multiple animations into one.
Exit Effects and Motion Paths4:34
Make objects move around the slide and disappear with style!
Slide Transitions4:13
Move between slides with cool animation effects.
A few more words on Section 31:14
Wrapping up Section 3: Powerpoint Animation

Finding Design Inspiration2:29
Not a designer? No problem. I'll give you several places where you can get inspired to find a design for your powerpoint slides that works perfectly for you.
A Simple Lesson Example5:22
Powerpoint design and animation example 1: Simple Lesson
A bullet point list example5:06
Powerpoint design and animation Example 2: An alternative to a boring bullet point list
Graph and Call to Action example5:48
Powerpoint design and animation Example 3: Animating a graph and adding a call to action
Download these designs0:03
Download the examples in powerpoint format
A few more words on Section 41:33
Wrapping up Section 4: Powerpoint design and animation examples

Promo Demonstration 1: "Hello" video and "a-n-i-m-a-t-e" cubes4:44
See how I added a video to my powerpoint slide and animated it to play automaticaly. I will also show you how the boxes with a-n-i-m-a-t-e letters on them show up using 'delay' feature of the animation effects.
Promo Demonstration 2: Entire slide shrinking and moving4:20
Learn how to make the entire screen shrink and move using powerpoint animation.
Promo Demonstration 3: Eiffel Tower effect5:06
This is a bit of a complicated powerpoint animation that I made for my promo video. Learn how I 'zoomed in' on the Eiffel tower, then made it 'jump' around the map.

Where to get free images4:08
Need great images? Don't just grab a random image from the internet - you could get yourself into all sorts of copyright issues. Find out where to get high quality royalty free images that you can use in your ecourse.
Simple image editing using a FREE program3:40
Cropping an image, modifying colour scheme, adjusting brightness and contrast, applying artistic effects.
Creating images from powerpoint slides and your screen4:46
Convert any powerpoint slide into an image and edit it using a FREE program.
How to create images with transparent background6:27
Add transparent background to any image, including images created from powerpoint slides.
A few more words on Section 60:43
Wrap up of Section 6: Thank you!
Credits0:04

Requirements

You need to have MS PowerPoint 2010 or newer version

Description

According to scientific research, over 65% of people are visual learners. That's two thirds of your students! Yet, many ecourses have boring and unappealing visuals that put their audiences to sleep. Plain text on plain background? How is that better than writing an article? As a result, students never complete courses, drop out, ask for a refund, and otherwise never get the benefit of your ecourse that you worked so hard creating for them.

You've taken your time to learn how to put videos together for your ecourse - make it count! Don't leave it at the 'article with a voice' stage. With just a little extra effort you can convert plain and boring looking materials into stunning, professional looking, fully animated ecourse. Powerpoint allows you to do that with ease.

Keep your students excited, engaged, and looking forward to your next lesson and - your next ecourse!

Discover the Power of PowerPoint

Learn to create stunning text effects
Quickly create an endless variety of shapes, styles and designs
Learn how to add 3D objects in Powerpoint
Learn to work with video and images in your presentation
Add tables, charts and diagrams to present data in a visual way
Save a ton of time by working with templates and learn other time-saving tricks
Animate ANYTHING instantly! It's fun and super-easy!
Download animated templates that we create in this course in Powerpoint (.pptx) format

Don't settle for boring looking slides that your students will have to suffer through. Make your materials exciting and engaging for your course participants.

Make your eCourse STAND OUT.

Who this course is for:

This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to design and animate in Powerpoint

How to Design and Animate your eCourse in Powerpoint

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PowerPoint Essentials7 lectures • 23min

Powerpoint Design: Styling text, shapes, images, graphs and even video12 lectures • 1hr

Powerpoint Animation: Let's have some fun!6 lectures • 22min

Bringing it all together: Design and Animation Examples6 lectures • 20min

How I created my promo video: Step by Step3 lectures • 14min

Bonuses: A few great things beyond Powerpoint6 lectures • 20min

More Powerpoint Designs to Download3 lectures • 1min

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