Presentation Skills and Design
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Course Introduction
This course focuses on developing students abilities to effectively design, structure, and deliver presentations in academic and professional contexts. Emphasizing both verbal and visual communication, the course explores techniques for audience analysis, storyboarding, slide design, and the strategic use of multimedia tools. Students will practice organizing content clearly, engaging audiences, managing nerves, and incorporating feedback. By the end of the course, participants will have strengthened their confidence and proficiency in creating compelling, well-designed presentations that convey information persuasively and professionally.
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New Perspectives on Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 Comprehensive Enhanced Edition 1st Edition by
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Chapter 1: Creating a Presentation
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Q1) A textbox is a region of a slide reserved for inserting text or graphics.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Once you enter text into a text placeholder, it is no longer a placeholder and becomes an object called a(n) object box. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) There are ____ text placeholders on the Title slide.
A)2
B)3
C)4
D)5
Answer: A
Q4) When you select an existing list and then click the Convert to SmartArt Graphic button in the Paragraph group on the ____________________ tab, a gallery of SmartArt layouts appears.
Answer: HOME
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Chapter 2: Adding Media and Special Effects
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Q1) Transitions are organized into four categories. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) When you choose the ____ compression level for videos the file will be compressed as small as possible.
A)Low Quality
B)Poor Quality
C)Blur
D)Space Saver
Answer: A
Q3) If a video is too long, or if there are parts you don't want to show during the slide show, you can ____ it.
A)clip
B)cut
C)crop
D)trim
Answer: D
Q4) The ____________________ is the formatting of the area inside a shape. Answer: fill
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Chapter 3: Applying Advanced Formatting to Objects
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Q1) The ____________________ of a photo is the amount of reds and yellows or blues and greens in the photo.
Answer: tone
Q2) Combines selected shapes and removes the sections of the shapes that overlap
A)combine
B)fragment
C)union
D)intersect
E)saturation
F)gradient
G)Picture
H)subtract
I)tabs
J)tone
Answer: A
Q3) A(n) gradient is shading in which one color blends into another or varies from one shape to another. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Advanced Animations and Distributing
Presentations
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Q1) In a self-running presentation, ____________________ gives the viewer more information or instructions for overriding the automatic timing.
Q2) To change the link destination of an action button to another file, open the Action Info dialog box, click the Hyperlink to option button, click the Hyperlink to arrow, and then click Other PowerPoint Presentation or Other File. _________________________
A)True
B)False
Q3) To customize theme colors, click the _____ tab.
A)HOME
B)FORMAT
C)DESIGN
D)INSERT
Q4) If the On Mouse Click check box is selected in the Timing group on the TRANSITIONS tab, the viewer can advance the slide show by _____.
A)clicking the left mouse button
B)pressing the spacebar
C)pressing the Enter key
D)all of the above
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Chapter 5: Integrating Powerpoint With Other Programs
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Q1) You must have access to the source program and source file to edit an embedded object.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When you import a formatted Word outline, each heading formatted with the ____ style in Word becomes a slide title.
A)Level 1
B)Heading 1
C)Level 2
D)Heading 2
Q3) To create an embedded Excel worksheet from within PowerPoint, click the ____________________ tab in the Tables group, click the Table button, and then click Excel Spreadsheet.
Q4) Referring to the illustration above, the second object listed in the Selection pane is Climber. This object is in ____.
A)the top layer
B)the bottom layer
C)the middle layer
D)no layer yet
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Chapter 6: Customizing Presentations and the Powerpoint Environment
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Q1) A(n) accessibility ____________________ is content that is difficult-to-impossible for people with disabilities to access.
Q2) PowerPoint includes a built-in Photo Album command, which allows you to create a photo album with one, two, or ____ pictures per slide, and optionally, with titles and captions.
A)four
B)six
C)eight
D)ten
Q3) When a document is created, the Author property is picked up from the ____________________ box in the PowerPoint Options dialog box.
Q4) To ____ a file is to modify it to make the information unreadable to unauthorized people.
A)hide
B)customize
C)digitize
D)encrypt
Q5) Why does the Chapter advise against creating your own theme from scratch?
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Chapter 7: Managing Your Files
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Q1) a compressed folder
A)backslash
B)Large icons
C)Clipboard
D)root directory
E)SkyDrive
F)extension
G)folder
H)archive
I)Details
J)library
Q2) You wish to select two files, which are not listed next to each other. But when you try to select them, you unintentionally select all of the files between the first and last. This is most likely because you ____.
A)have a virus on your computer
B)used the Ctrl button instead of the Shift button
C)used the Shift button instead of the Ctrl button
D)right-clicked instead of clicking
Q3) ____________________ a file means making an uncompressed copy of a compressed file.
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Chapter 8: Presentation Concepts: Planning, Developing, and Giving a Presentation
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Q1) Name three examples of business jargon. Why is it important to avoid the use of business jargon?
Q2) Referring to the accompanying figure, this diagram illustrates a(n) _____ organization of a presentation.
A)problem-solving
B)spatial
C)sequential
D)inductive
Q3) A(n) handout is a picture, shape, design, graph or chart, diagram, or video.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Asking yourself "who is the audience for my presentation?" is part of the _______________ phase.
Q5) One of the biggest challenges presenters face is focusing their presentations, that is, limiting the topic by concentrating on _______________ aspect(s) of it.
Q6) Once you've established a focus and identified your key points, you need to create the introduction, _______________, and conclusion of your presentation.
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