Training: ICDL ADVANCED – Presentation – AM6

Chapter 1: Presentation Planning

• Module 1: Audience and Environment
  • Understand how audience demography (age, educational level, occupation, cultural background) and knowledge of subject impacts on planning of a presentation
  • Understand venue considerations like: lighting, room size and layout
  • Understand technical presentation considerations like: video equipment, audio equipment, presentation accessories, connectivity
• Module 2: Design, Content and Layout
  • Understand timing considerations like: tailor content to time available, allow appropriate time interval for each slide
  • Understand that presentation dialogue is supported by graphical objects and text. Understand the importance of limiting the level of detail of graphical objects and text
  • Be aware of accessibility design considerations like: font size, alternative text, colours, contrast, limiting animations and transitions

Chapter 2: Slide Masters and Templates

• Module 1: Slide Masters
  • Insert a new slide master, new layout
  • Edit slide master layouts like: bulleted list format, background colour and fill effects, placeholder position, placeholder deletion, name
  • Apply a custom slide master to specified slides
• Module 2: Templates
  • Create a new template, theme
  • Save a presentation as a template, modify a template, theme

Chapter 3: Graphical Objects

• Module 1: Formatting Drawn Objects
  • Apply background fill effects to a drawn object
  • Apply a transparency effect to a drawn object
  • Apply a 3-D effect and settings to a drawn object
  • Pick up a style from a drawn object and apply it to another drawn object
  • Change the default formatting for new drawn objects
• Module 2: Formatting Pictures, Images
  • Adjust picture, image brightness and contrast
  • Display a picture, image in greyscale, black and white, washout format
  • Change colours in a picture. Restore original colours in a picture
• Module 3: Handling Graphical Objects
  • Display, hide ruler, grid and guides. Move guides. Turn on, off snap objects to grid
  • Position a graphical object (picture, image, drawn object) on a slide using specified horizontal and vertical co-ordinates
  • Add, modify, remove alternative text
  • Distribute selected graphical objects horizontally, vertically relative to a slide
  • Distribute selected graphical objects horizontally, vertically relative to other graphical objects
  • Crop a graphical object
  • Convert a picture to a drawn object and edit the drawn object
  • Save a graphical object as a file format like: bmp, gif, jpeg, png
  • Omit, display background graphics on a slide, slides

Chapter 4: Charts and Diagrams

• Module 1: Using Charts
  • Format chart title, legend, data labels, axes labels
  • Change the chart type for a defined data series
  • Change the gap, overlap between columns, bars in a chart
  • Format columns, bars, plot area, chart area to display an image
  • Change scale of value axis: minimum, maximum number to display, major interval between plotted numbers in a chart
• Module 2: Using Diagrams
  • Create a diagram using built- in options or other available drawing tools like: flowchart, cycle, pyramid
  • Add, move, delete shapes in a diagram
  • Add, change, delete connectors in a flowchart

Chapter 5: Multimedia

• Module 1: Audio, Video
  • Embed online video into a slide
  • Insert video to play automatically, on mouse click
  • Insert audio to play automatically, on mouse click
  • Create an audio recording
  • Create a screen recording
  • Insert audio to play in background in your presentation for an appropriate duration
• Module 2: Animation
  • Change custom animation effects and settings. Change sequence of custom animations in a slide
  • Apply automatic settings so that bulleted points will dim to a specified colour after animation
  • Animate chart elements by series, by category, by elements in series. Animate, do not animate chart grid and legend

Chapter 6: Enhancing Productivity

• Module 1: Linking, Embedding
  • Insert an action button. Modify settings to navigate to a specified slide, custom show, file, URL
  • Link data into a slide and display as an object, icon
  • Update, break a link
  • Insert an image from a file with a link to the file
  • Embed data into a slide and display as an object
  • Edit, delete embedded data
• Module 2: Importing, Exporting, Securing
  • Merge slide(s), a complete presentation, a word-processed outline into an existing presentation
  • Save a specified slide as a file format: gif, jpeg, bmp
  • Save a presentation as another file type like: rtf, video format
  • Add, remove password protection for a presentation to open, to modify

Chapter 7: Managing Presentations

• Module 1: Custom Shows
  • Create, show a named custom slide show
  • Copy, edit, delete a custom slide show
• Module 2: Slide Show Settings
  • Apply timings to, remove timings from slide transitions
  • Apply settings to a slide show so that it loops continuously when played, does not loop continuously when played
  • Apply settings so that slides advance manually, advance using timings if present. Apply settings so that slide show is presented with animation, without animation
• Module 3: Slide Show Delivery
  • Add, erase pen annotations during a slide show
  • Display black, white screen during a slide show. Pause, restart, end a slide show
  • Use presenter view for notes, slide preview, slide navigation, time
  • Understand presentation delivery considerations like: practice (content and time), tone of voice (word emphasis, pitch, volume, intonation, pauses), body language and posture, use of storytelling