Skills inventory for PowerPoint 2003: Basic

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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Starting Microsoft PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 

Identifying PowerPoint’s views

 

 

 

 

 

Using Help in PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 

Opening, saving, and closing presentations

 

 

 

 

 

Rearranging, deleting, and inserting slides

 

 

 

 

 

Changing font, font size, and bullet style

 

 

 

 

 

Using the Find, Replace, Cut, Copy, and Paste commands

 

 

 

 

 

Viewing the ruler, setting tabs, and aligning text

 

 

 

 

 

Creating, moving, resizing, aligning, and connecting objects

 

 

 

 

 

Working with AutoShapes and text boxes

 

 

 

 

 

Improving the visual appeal of a presentation by using WordArt and clip art

 

 

 

 

 

Inserting pictures, and applying effects to them

 

 

 

 

 

Adding a table to a slide, and entering text in it

 

 

 

 

 

Creating a chart, changing its colors, and changing the chart type

 

 

 

 

 

Inserting an Excel chart

 

 

 

 

 

Creating an organization chart and adding levels to it

 

 

 

 

 

Applying design templates, and using multiple slide masters

 

 

 

 

 

Adding transition effects and timings to a slide show

 

 

 

 

 

Adding speaker notes, footers, and headers

 

 

 

 

 

Setting up a slide show

 

 

 

 

 

Checking spelling, and using the Thesaurus, AutoCorrect, and the Style Checker

 

 

 

 

 

Previewing and running a presentation

 

 

 

 

 

Hiding and unhiding slides

 

 

 

 

 

Modifying page setup

 

 

 

 

 

Printing presentations

 

 

 

 

 

Saving presentations as Web pages

 

 

 

 

 

Inserting hyperlinks into a slide