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Interactive PowerPoint Presentations Made Simple
Rating: 4.4 out of 5(24 ratings)
6,361 students

Interactive PowerPoint Presentations Made Simple

Build up your engaging interactive environment in PowerPoint that you simply enjoy watching!
Created byBertalan Köles
Last updated 8/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • How to create a cinematic, video like, interactive environment in PowerPoint
  • How to develop and build up a simple story, using characters and focusing on conversations
  • How to create engaging content in PowerPoint fast and simple
  • How to manipulate pictures, characters in PowerPoint in order to create "wow effect"
  • How to build up a website-like content in PowerPoint, where you can navigate the presentation as it was a website, with menubar, buttons, homapage, etc
  • How to build up a clickable interface in PowerPoint with animations, utilizing the hyperlink feature
  • How to work with the zoom and morph functions in PowerPoint effectively

Course content

7 sections21 lectures3h 24m total length
  • Trailer2:24

    PowerPoint becomes an interactive digital interface for storytelling, inspiring audiences with engaging visuals. Learn six core areas—environment manipulation, design focus, layouts and color consistency, image editing, and animations vs transitions.

  • Get Office 365!2:11

    Subscribe to Office 365 for the latest PowerPoint and Office. Annual or monthly plans, business or home use, include Word, Excel, Outlook, OneDrive, 1 TB storage, and student free access.

  • Introduction - overview of the course10:36
  • Sample presentation7:45

    Learn to craft interactive PowerPoint stories by combining pictures, emotions, and scenes, using character-driven conversations to turn viewers into active participants.

Requirements

  • You will need Microsoft 365 subscription or at least PowerPoint 2019
  • Basic PowerPoint knowledge is desired but not required
  • In best case you already have your material, subject, product, project that you would like to convert into an exciting and interactive PowerPoint presentation

Description

We go through step by step in a sample presentation and you will build up your virtual environment from scratch. You will learn the basic techniques to develop your story with characters and different scenes. The whole process will be a bit like making your own movie. It will enable you to put yourself in a storyteller role, while we keep the focus on educational and/or selling purposes.

Depending on your content, you can achieve your presentation goals easier, if you can create a movie-like experience. A movie or simply a video clip is never static but dynamic, in every second a surprise can arise, if we enjoy watching it, we don't even have time to get bored, keeping our attention is not even a question. When you explain something in PowerPoint, you can follow the same principles because you have all the tools to make it happen. You will simply need a well developed structure, characters, well fitting pictures, consistency in your design, effective zoom movements (camera movements), then you are good to go. 

Enjoy the new PowerPoint that changed the game and utilize it whenever you present, teach, sell or simply explain your knowledge, idea, information digitally.

Who this course is for:

  • Teachers, professors, educators, instructors who regularly present to groups, students and use PowerPoint as visual aid to support the learners
  • Online course creators, Webinar presenters, all digital presenters on the web, who are to present on the screen and explain their content visually
  • Professionals who present on a regular base to clients or colleagues, stakeholders and use PowerPoint (or other software) as visual aids
  • Those who are interested in creating videos by themselves but a video editing software seems too complex; with PowerPoint today you can create very professional videos with the techniques learned from this course
  • Sales professionals
  • Marketing professionals
  • HR professionals
  • E-Learning Designers
  • Startups, freelancers who are looking for budget solutions to create instructional videos but with high quality at the same time