ZPDI0585 - Microsoft Office 365: PowerPoint 2019 (Online)

Course Description

Explore the many facets of Microsoft PowerPoint 2019. Learn basic functions like creating presentations and slides, changing layouts, and working with illustrations and images as well as more advanced functions like working with SmartArt, delivering presentations and collaborating in PowerPoint. Microsoft Office 365 required to complete coursework.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Creating and Editing Presentations with Pictures

Learn how to create a title slide and add additional slides, insert and resize images, and save and print a PowerPoint file.

Lesson 2: Enhancing Presentations with Shapes, SmartArt, WordArt, Charts and Tables

Explore a variety of tools for building and enhancing presentations, including themes, SmartArt, WordArt, charts and tables.

Lesson 3: Customizing Slide Masters and Collaborating

Learn how to create a master slide, build a presentation and customize slide elements, as well as how to collaborate in PowerPoint and animate slide content. 

Lesson 4: Tables and Charts

Learn how to insert graphics from a file, draw and format tables, insert a linked spreadsheet, and modify and format a linked Excel chart.

Lesson 5: Adding Media to a Presentation

Explore options for enhancing presentations, including creating graphics and adding action buttons.

Lesson 6: Delivering the Presentation

Learn best practices for delivering PowerPoint presentations. Topics include printing and saving the presentation and creating a custom slideshow.

Learner Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Create a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Enhance a PowerPoint presentation with shapes, graphics and SmartArt.
• Format tables and charts within PowerPoint.
• Create master slides and presentations.
• Deliver a PowerPoint presentation.

Notes

Students have 12 months to complete this self-paced online course.

All necessary course materials included (except Microsoft Office 365).

Certification(s):

• This course prepares a student to take the Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 national certification exam.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable and DSL internet connections recommended for best experience.

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 2 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone (Webinar / Live Online sessions)

• Microsoft Windows 7 or 10 (Home, Pro)
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions

NOTE: While courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, their size does not provide an optimal learning environment for online or live online-based courses.

• Latest Google Chrome recommended for best experience
• Latest Mozilla Firefox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• May require other software as denoted in course outline.