Skills inventory for PowerPoint 2003: Advanced

Use the following form to gauge students’ skill level entering the class (students have copies in the introductions of their student manuals). For each skill listed, have students rate their familiarity from 1 to 5, with five being the most familiar. Emphasize that this is not a test. Rather, it’s intended to provide students with an idea of where they’re starting from at the beginning of class. If a student is wholly unfamiliar with all the skills, he or she might not be ready for the class. A student who seems to understand every skill, on the other hand, might need to move on to the next course in the series.

 

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Modifying templates

 

 

 

 

 

Creating a custom template from a blank presentation

 

 

 

 

 

Building custom slide masters

 

 

 

 

 

Working with slide masters

 

 

 

 

 

Formatting and rotating objects

 

 

 

 

 

Adding sound and movie clips

 

 

 

 

 

Adding scanned images and animation effects

 

 

 

 

 

Formatting organization charts and tables

 

 

 

 

 

Adding and modifying action buttons

 

 

 

 

 

Creating and editing custom slide shows

 

 

 

 

 

Setting up a review cycle

 

 

 

 

 

Using Microsoft NetMeeting

 

 

 

 

 

Working with shared workspaces

 

 

 

 

 

Embedding fonts in a presentation

 

 

 

 

 

Compressing pictures to reduce the size of a presentation

 

 

 

 

 

Packaging and running a presentation

 

 

 

 

 

Using on-screen navigation tools, and annotating a slide

 

 

 

 

 

Customizing and creating toolbars

 

 

 

 

 

Creating and running a macro

 

 

 

 

 

Embedding and editing Excel worksheets

 

 

 

 

 

Building slides from a Word outline

 

 

 

 

 

Inserting Word tables into a presentation

 

 

 

 

 

Sending a presentation to Word

 

 

 

 

 

Editing a presentation in Word

 

 

 

 

 

Saving a presentation as an RTF outline