CAP1553 - MICROSOFT POWERPOINT
1 Credit Hour
Student Level:
This course is open to students on the college level in either the Freshman or Sophomore year.
Catalog Description:
CAP1553 - Microsoft PowerPoint (1 hr.)
This course is designed for students who wish to gain a foundational understanding of Microsoft PowerPoint that is necessary to create and develop engaging multimedia presentations. Today’s audiences are tech savvy, accustomed to high-impact multimedia content, and stretched for time. By learning how to use the features and functionality contained within Microsoft PowerPoint, students will gain the ability to organize content, enhance it with high impact visuals, and deliver it with impact. Upon completing this course, you be able to create and deliver engaging multimedia presentations that convey the key points of a message through the use of text, graphics, and animations. This course may be used to prepare for a MOS PowerPoint certification exam.
Course Classification:
Lecture
Prerequisites:
None
Co-requisites:
None
Controlling Purpose:
The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding and use of presentation software in a realistic business environment. Topics include:
- Creating and editing presentations
- Illustrating with pictures and information graphics
- Preparing for delivery and using a slide presentation
- Customizing images, illustrations, and themes
- Working with advanced animation, hyperlinks, and rich media
- Integrating, reviewing, and collaborating
- Using account settings, record options, and online apps including OneDrive, PowerPoint, and Sway
Learner Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, the student will:
- Demonstrate the ability to create, edit, and print presentations
- Achieve professional results with your slide design, the colors you apply, and the effects you choose.
- Explore PowerPoint’s rehearsal features to perfect your delivery timing and techniques, project your presentation, and prepare a presentation to be self-running
- Apply illustration features to create an original theme and template design using Slide Masters
- Explore how to work with audio and video content, add motion with complex animations, and provide interactivity with hyperlinks.
- Integrate material from other applications such as Excel, Word, or other objects
Unit Outcomes for Criterion Based Evaluation:
The following outline defines the minimum core content not including the final examination period. Instructors may add other material as time allows.
UNIT 1: Creating and Editing Presentations
Outcomes: Upon completion of this unit, the students will be able to:
- Create, open, and save a presentation
- Work with slides, layouts, placeholders, and text
- Navigate between slides and organize content by reproducing and rearranging slides
- Change theme colors and fonts
- Insert headers and footers to add identifying information
- Insert, resize, and align a picture from a file
- Apply and modify transition effects to add visual interest
- Preview a presentation and print slides, handouts, and outlines
- Apply presentation properties
UNIT 2: Illustrating with Pictures and Information Graphics
Outcomes: Upon completion of this unit, the students will be able to:
- Work with shapes, styles, effects, and colors
- Work with Microsoft 365 Creative Content
- Enhance pictures, search for pictures, and compress picture file size
- Create a table to organize information in a grid format of columns and rows
- Format a table by applying styles, colors, and effects
- Create SmartArt graphics to show processes and relationships
- Format a SmartArt graphic by applying styles, colors, and effects
- Create charts to show relationships between data values and emphasize data in different ways
- Format a chart by applying preset styles or customizing individual chart elements
UNIT 3: Preparing for Delivery and Using a Slide Presentation
Outcomes: Upon completion of this unit, the students will be able to:
- Create custom theme colors and background fills
- Apply animation to add interest and reinforce content
- Use an online video
- Use rehearsal techniques to prepare for presentation delivery
- Control display options for different screen sizes
- Present effectively and professionally using projection equipment
- Draw on slides during a presentation
- Prepare a self-running presentation that loops
- Use the Package Presentation for CD feature to prepare a slide show for display on other computers
UNIT 4: Customizing Images, Illustrations, and Themes
Outcomes: Upon completion of this unit, the students will be able to:
- Draw shapes and draw with ink
- Work with multiple objects to align, distribute, and group; convert SmartArt to text or shapes
- Use Slide Masters to create a custom theme with new colors, fonts, and background graphics
- Capture a screenshot or a screen clipping
- Edit pictures to apply photo corrections, choose artistic effects, crop to shapes, and remove backgrounds
- Create a photo album and adjust picture order, layout, and captions; apply and customize a photo album theme
- Create and use a custom template
UNIT 5: Working with Advanced Animation, Hyperlinks, and Rich Media
Outcomes: Upon completion of this unit, the students will be able to:
- Apply advanced animation with complex sequences including Morph transitions, and Animated GIF
- Add hyperlinks, insert action buttons, and use the Zoom feature to create navigation and to link to other sources
- Insert audio and video content
- Adjust audio and video playback settings using bookmark, trim, and face options
- Record audio and add sound to animation
- Format, optimize, and compress media
- Integrate rich media effectively
UNIT 6: Integrating, Reviewing, and Collaborating
Outcomes: Upon completion of this unit, the students will be able to:
- Add content from other sources
- Add sections to organize presentation slides
- Use proofing tools
- Create custom slide shows within a presentation
- Use comments, compare, and review features
- Prepare to share a presentation
- Save and export a presentation in different file types
Projects Required:
Students will complete the required assignments
Textbook:
Contact Bookstore for current textbook.
Materials/Equipment Required:
Computer and software
Attendance Policy:
Students should adhere to the attendance policy outlined by the instructor in the course syllabus.
Grading Policy:
The grading policy will be outlined by the instructor in the course syllabus.
Maximum class size:
Based on classroom occupancy
Course Time Frame:
The U.S. Department of Education, Higher Learning Commission and the Kansas Board of Regents define credit hour and have specific regulations that the college must follow when developing, teaching and assessing the educational aspects of the college. A credit hour is an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally-established equivalency that reasonably approximates not less than one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work for approximately fifteen weeks for one semester hour of credit or an equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time. The number of semester hours of credit allowed for each distance education or blended hybrid courses shall be assigned by the college based on the amount of time needed to achieve the same course outcomes in a purely face-to-face format.
Refer to the following policies:
402.00 Academic Code of Conduct
263.00 Student Appeal of Course Grades
403.00 Student Code of Conduct
Disability Services Program:
Cowley College, in recognition of state and federal laws, will accommodate a student with a documented disability. If a student has a disability which may impact work in this class and which requires accommodations, contact the Disability Services Coordinator.
DISCLAIMER: THIS INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. FOR THE OFFICIAL COURSE PROCEDURE CONTACT ACADEMIC AFFAIRS.
Updated 02/22/2024
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