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How to Design and Deliver Engaging Virtual Presentations

How to set your Camera, Audio and Lighting (CAL) to have a professional studio setup. How to effectively use the virtual presentation engagement tools

Created byGarth Sheriff
BeginnerUpdated Sep 28, 2020

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleVirtual presentations vs live presentations room – significant differences
  • check_circleVirtual presentations – best practices

About This Course

As a result of the pandemic, many professionals find themselves presenting to teams, clients, and others using teleconferencing software such as Zoom, Go to Training, Microsoft Teams, etc. However, presentation design and delivery for a live presentation are much different than for a virtual presentation. It is not enough to simply take a prepared live presentation and just do the same thing in a virtual setting. Current research shows that this will result in a lack of both clarity and participant engagement. In fact, virtual presentations require more instructional design and preparation than a live presentation.

A virtual presentation must be re-designed to promote thoughtful use of virtual engagement tools such as audience feedback buttons, polling questions, breakout rooms, and shared screens. The presenters themselves must prepare differently than for a live presentation including setting up proper camera framing, audio levels, and lighting.

Course Content

1 activity • 1 videos • duration: 1h 24m

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Section 11 videos • 1.4 hours
  • videocamHow to Design and Deliver Engaging Presentations
    Duration 84:34

Your Instructor

Garth Sheriff

Founder of Sheriff Consulting

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I am the founder of Sheriff Consulting which specializes in the development and delivery of accounting, auditing and foundational skill courses and workshops. Teaching and working with professionals in diverse and dynamic learning environments has been my passion and experience for over 10 years. As a qualified Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and U.S. Certified Public Accountant (CPA), I work with finance and accounting professionals in both the U.S. and Canada to meet their training and development needs. My goal has always been to create an engaging and interactive learning environment. To help my own path of continual improvement in achieving this goal, I have also received training and worked as a professional actor. I am a member of ACTRA (the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists) and a graduate in improvisation from the Second City Training Centre. http://sheriffconsulting.com/

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.5 out of 5
Student's Choice
32 reviews
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    Deborah R.
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    practical -- appreciate the tips/showing the various websites he used to verify components. Laying out how he approaches his planning

  • PH
    Patrick H.
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    Very helpful as using technology is the new norm.

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    Steven V.
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    There were some practical things I would have liked e.g. how to move your hands in an online presentation, should material be written differently if read online versus in person? How to intersperse screen shared materials with speaking etc. But some points very practical e.g. lighting, how to position yourself in the screen etc.

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    Stephen S.
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    Engaging presenter. Helpful tips. I would certainly watch future presentations with by this individual.

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