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Power Up PowerPoint! (Presentation Skills)

Giving a presentation? If you want to avoid boring your audience to tears, this course is a must

Created byBigger Brainsworkspace_premiumBest Instructor
IntermediateUpdated Jan 3, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleDescribe benefit of planning your presentation
  • check_circleList free and paid sites for acquiring presentation graphics
  • check_circleDiscuss the role of the “Rule of Thirds” in creating appealing slides

About This Course

Giving a presentation? If you want to avoid boring your audience to tears, this course is a must!

Almost anyone can piece together a PowerPoint presentation. However, most presentations are filled with bullet point lists, thick paragraphs of text, and the occasional picture in a desperate attempt to break up the monotony. You can do better than that! This course shows you ways to turn standard content into something that’s actually interesting to your audience.

Taught by presentation skills guru, Kelly Vandever, and TEDx speaker Dr. Rebecca Heiss, Power Up PowerPoint shows you don't have to be a graphic designer to create beautiful, impactful slides. Learn how to ditch the default settings and “amp up” your slides, so you can deliver your message with power and influence.

Knowing how to create a PowerPoint slide is one thing. Knowing how to design informative and appealing slides is something different! As Roger Courville, author of The Virtual Presenters, says “PowerPoint doesn’t teach you to create effective slides any more than Microsoft Word teaches you how to be a good writer”. But this course will! During Power Up PowerPoint, you'll learn ways to heighten your PowerPoint skillset and create presentations that will keep your participants engaged and inspired.

Topics covered include:

  • Learning how default settings hurt the effectiveness of your slides
  • Learning step-by-step processes for creating appealing slides
  • Revising existing slides to be more impactful
  • Heightening slide design to increase audience retention
  • Finding free and low-cost photographs for presentations
  • Learning Rule of Thirds and other practical techniques to make slides look their best
  • Inserting animations and transitions to benefit your presentation, not distract from it
  • Including interactive polls and games in your slide show

Enjoy 3 hours of high-quality HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style!

Course Content

1 activity • 26 videos • duration: 2h 44m

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Section 126 videos • 2.7 hours
  • videocamWhy Power Up PowerPoint?
    Duration 5:07
  • videocamLogical Reasons
    Duration 4:41
  • videocamDesign Ideas
    Duration 10:19
  • videocamThe Process
    Duration 6:39
  • videocamLegalese
    Duration 4:59
  • videocamImage Quality
    Duration 5:31
  • videocamFinding Images: Add-Ins
    Duration 7:34
  • videocamFinding Images: Paid Sites
    Duration 10:49
  • videocamFinding Images: Free Sites
    Duration 8:49
  • videocamRule of Thirds- Single Image
    Duration 7:32
  • videocamRule of Thirds- Fill Slide
    Duration 6:49
  • videocamImage and Slide Backgrounds
    Duration 3:32
  • videocamDraw the Eye
    Duration 3:52
  • videocamFont Selection
    Duration 4:20
  • videocamFont Sizes and Emphasis
    Duration 3:52
  • videocamBullet Points
    Duration 3:24
  • videocamCharts, Graph, and Statistics
    Duration 7:56
  • videocamTables
    Duration 6:39
  • videocamCorporate Templates
    Duration 2:04
  • videocamConvincing your Boss
    Duration 2:24
  • videocamAnimations and Transitions
    Duration 1:56
  • videocamAudience Interaction with Polls
    Duration 11:04
  • videocamUsing PowerPoint Games
    Duration 9:30
  • videocamAdding Video
    Duration 6:14
  • videocamGIFs and Other Tips
    Duration 9:27
  • videocamVideo Recording with PowerPoint
    Duration 9:26

Your Instructor

Bigger Brains

Powering Productivity, One Brain at a Time!

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Combining TV-style video production with modern graphics and animation, Bigger Brains courses are popular with both learners and training professionals around the world. Our top teachers and subject matter experts have real-world experience and create the most realistic and comprehensive training courses possible. Bigger Brains courses are built in a unique “Teacher/Learner” style, featuring two people on camera to recreate some of the interactivity and physiological benefits of classroom training, including dialogue, humor, and practical use case examples. This Uniquely Engaging™ video-based format is more enjoyable and more effective than traditional eLearning formats.

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

4.6 out of 5
Student's Choice
11 reviews
  • AD
    Andrew D.
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    Interesting course showing lots of features available in PowerPoint. I however expected to learn more tips on optimal data layout, styles and examples.

  • SM
    Sophie M.
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    I really enjoyed this course. Easy to follow with many examples.

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