Specialist Design Techniques for PowerPoint Course UK Wide | On-site and Online

Specialist Design PowerPoint Training Course

This one-day Specialist PowerPoint Course for publishers introduces the design techniques needed to create effective and impactful presentations for standalone multimedia publishing and live presenting.

The course allows learners to properly get under the bonnet of presentation design and focusses upon strategies and techniques for combining design, layout, typography, imagery and multimedia with flair to deliver a clear, effective and engaging message to your audience.

This course can be taught upon any version of Microsoft PowerPoint including: 365, 2024, 2021 and 2019. Although, please note that some features of the software will be unavailable in earlier versions.

Our PowerPoint Specialist Design course focusses upon practicing sound design principles and effective visual messaging as well as upon learning the technical skills needed to produce effective and engaging media-rich presentations.

PowerPoint Specialist Training Course Prerequisites

This specialist PowerPoint course is available even if you have no previous knowledge of PowerPoint; although some prior knowledge and experience of how to create a basic slideshow and understanding of the PowerPoint environment would be advantageous.

On-site Specialist PowerPoint Courses in the United Kingdom

Our closed courses for Microsoft PowerPoint are delivered as private classes for your learners offering more flexibility than off-the-peg courses and topics can often be tailored to meet your particular learning needs.

Our mobile Microsoft trainers understand that helping their students to work more effectively isn't just a business goal, it's also empowering. They're inspirational subject experts and software champions who promote enthusiastic adoption of PowerPoint amongst their trainees. Before the start date they'll discuss training goals with you and the skill-sets that your team need most whether they're starting as novice, intermediate or more advanced users.

With our on-site Microsoft PowerPoint courses our regional trainers come to your workplace throughout England, bringing the training to you whether you're in a major city such as London, Manchester, Birmingham or Leeds, or anywhere else.

This offers a cost-effective way to train small groups and entire departments in the comfort of familiar surroundings.

Live Virtual Classroom Specialist Microsoft PowerPoint Courses, UK and Beyond

If you'd rather that your team learns remotely, these small-group Microsoft PowerPoint courses are also available as live virtual, interactive sessions from the comfort of your own office or workplace. These instructor-led courses are taught via MS Teams video conferencing.

Why choose virtual learning? As we've all become used to Online learning (and live virtual meetings) it is clear that this format has some advantages over traditional face-to-face learning.

If you're looking for local PowerPoint training, then you can't get closer to your doorstep than you can with virtual learning.

Our virtual learning Microsoft PowerPoint courses cater for classes of up to 10 and your learners benefit from full and immersive interaction with the trainer just as if they were in the classroom with you, with engaging hands-on training via live video conferencing that's enriched by features such as live chat, private chat, and sharing screens and documents.

Our virtual classroom Microsoft PowerPoint courses cost £550.00 plus VAT p/day inclusive up to 5 delegates. More learners can be added up to a limit of 10 charged at £50.00 plus VAT per person p/day. Courseware will be provided electronically.

We really ❤ helping UK organisations to master Microsoft PowerPoint. Our only question is: Will it be yours?

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Inspirational subject experts with a wealth of experience, proven track records and excellent feedback.

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Flexible instructor-led courses catering to YOUR specific learning needs and training requirements.

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Over 35,000 students trained across almost every industry, sector and background.

Why Choose Our PowerPoint Courses?

• Step-by-Step Training: Instructor-led PowerPoint training provided in-person with engaging step-by-step demos, lessons and hands-on exercises.
  
  
• Q&A Courses: Dynamic and interactive PowerPoint courses with ample time for questions and answers.
  
  
• The Personal Touch: Expert tuition from experienced and trusted specialists, tailored to your team's knowledge level and learning needs, and covering the Powerpoint presentation design, publishing and presenting features and techniques that they need most.
  
  
• Small Class Sizes: Private, corporate training with a limit of 10 participants per session to ensure personalised attention.
  
  
• Scalable Courses: Can be run as one or more courses, or as a digital transformation training programme bringing entire departments and organisations up to the benchmark of PowerPoint knowledge and confidence needed.
  
  
• Regular Teaching Hours: 9.30AM to 4.30PM with a lunch hour and short breaks morning and afternoon. Courses run week days, during normal business hours.

Specialist Design Techniques for PowerPoint Publishers Course Outline

Actual course content may vary, depending upon your learning requirements.

• Module 1: Introduction to Visual Messaging Strategies and Storytelling
  
  
  1. What are the Main Presentation Types?
  2. Understanding Visual Signals, Metaphors and Messages
  3. Planning your Presentation Structure
  4. Planning, Presentation Visualisation and Storyboarding
  5. Creating a Moodboard
  6. Planning and Structuring your Narrative
     
     
• Module 2: Image and Video Connections
  
  
  1. Using Images
  2. The Role of Multimedia (Video and Audio)
  3. Including Multimedia
  4. Image, Video and Audio Resources and Repositories (Creative Commons/Commercial Use)
  5. Multimedia Customisation
     
     
• Module 3: Branding and Style
  
  
  1. Understanding Master Slides, Slide Hierarchy and Cascading Style
  2. The Humble Bullet Point
  3. Working with PowerPoint Decks¹ and Slide Stacks
     
     
• Module 4: Working with PowerPoint Colour Palettes and Themes
  
  
  1. An Introduction to Colour Themes
  2. Methods for Building Themes
  3. Colour Contrasts and Complements
  4. Using a Consistent Colour Palette
  5. What are Soft Font² Colour Styles?
     
     
• Module 5: An Introduction to the Principles of Good Design
  
  
  1. When to use Emphasis and Why
  2. Employing Balance
  3. Understanding Form and Space
  4. When to use Repetition and Why
  5. How to use Contrast
  6. What is Proportion and Why is it Important?
     
     
• Module 6: Working with PowerPoint Typography
  
  
  1. Working with Font Types³
  2. The Art of Communicating a Message Through Fonts
  3. Fonts and Best Practice
     
     
• Module 7: Adding a Whiteboard to your Presentation
  
  
  1. What is a Whiteboard?
  2. PowerPoint Integration with Microsoft Whiteboard?⁴
  3. Adding and using a Whiteboard
  4. Using Logitech Scribe Whiteboard Camera
  5. Saving your Whiteboard
     
     
• Module 8: Working with PowerPoint Charts and Graphs
  
  
  1. Creating Charts and Graphs
  2. Charts and Datasheets
  3. Animating your Chart
  4. High Impact Charts and Graph Design
     
     
• Module 9: Creating a Video in PowerPoint
  
  
  1. Creating Video Footage from a Presentation
  2. Methods for Video Recording
  3. Adding PIP features to your Video
  4. Including Narration and Subtitles with your Video
  5. Adding Annotations
  6. How to Publish your Video
  7. Publishing Options and Considerations (HD/ SD, resolution, aspect ratio etc.)
  8. Understanding Timings and Narration
     
     
• Module 10: Creating Dynamic Visuals
  
  
  1. Integrating Infographics with your Presentation
  2. Using Graphics Effectively
  3. Using Animation Effectively
  4. Spectrum of Colours (using Custom Colour, RGB and HEX)
  5. Image Manipulation and Editing in PowerPoint
     
     
• Module 11: PowerPoint Slideshow Navigation
  
  
  1. Introducing Hyperlinks
  2. Hyperlink URLs
  3. Understanding Internal and External Linking
     
     

Notes: PowerPoint Terminology in Layman's Terms

1) The term "Deck" is used to describe the stack of slides which make up your Powerpoint presentation. As you add more slides they're stacked on top of one another in the Slide Pane. As with a deck of cards they can be easlily moved around or shuffled to change the slide order by dragging and dropping or cutting and pasting.

2) The term "Soft Font" refers simply to a font style which is stored digitally upon a computer. The name helps to distinguish Soft Fonts from hard font letters which are physically placed onto a text block for manually loading into a printing press.

3) It is worth being aware that fonts are divided into five major style classifications or types: serif, sans serif, script, monospace and display. There is a right time and place (or convention) when and why to use each one of them. For suggested further reading on the subject the recommend the following article: Understanding the Nuances of Typeface Classification, Cameron Chapman (Toptal, 2018).

4) Whilst it is not possible to integrate Microsoft Whiteboard with your PowerPoint presentation at the time of writing, you can nonetheless use an interactive whiteboard in Powerpoint which allows you to use the canvas to demonstrate, annotate, present and brainstorm in realtime using a digital pen.

PowerPoint Course Levels: training courses are available for beginners, intermediate, and advanced users of Microsoft PowerPoint.

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