ICT Presentation Essentials

Hours: 8 / Access Length: 12 Months / Delivery: Online, Self-Paced
Online Hours: 8
Retail Price: $104.00

Course Overview:

ICT Presentation Essentials provides a comprehensive exploration of presentation software tools and techniques, equipping students with the skills and knowledge necessary to create and deliver impactful presentations in various professional settings. Students will learn how to create and deliver fantastic presentations, from the basics to some advanced techniques. Through a combination of theoretical concepts, practical exercises, and hands-on projects, students will understand why having good presentation skills is important, and how to use images and words without any problems. Strategies to engage others as you prepare and deliver your presentations.

In this course, students will:

• Plan and design professional slide decks using modern software and AI tools.
• Create and format slides using themes, templates, and slide masters.
• Integrate multimedia like images and audio while following copyright laws.
• Add transitions and animations to make presentations more engaging.
• Deliver presentations effectively using speaker notes and professional techniques.

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Modern Presentations

After completing this lesson, you will be able to plan, design, and build professional slide decks by following a structured six-step process that incorporates team collaboration and AI tools. You will also master the legal and ethical side of presentations, including copyright compliance, fair use of multimedia, and ensuring content is accessible to all audiences.

Lesson 2: Working with Slides

After completing this lesson, you will be able to navigate presentation software to create, format, and manage professional slide decks from scratch. You will also master designing layouts with themes and multimedia, allowing you to efficiently organize content using tools like the ribbon, thumbnails, and designer features.

Lesson 3: Advanced Presentation and Delivery skills

After completing this lesson, you will be able to design and deliver professional, multimedia-rich presentations by mastering slide masters, transitions, and animations. You will also gain the technical skills to manage audio settings, incorporate speaker notes, and configure continuous loops for seamless automated displays.

All necessary course materials are included.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.