Polish, Troubleshoot, and Deliver

This capstone unit consolidates advanced PowerPoint skills for refining, troubleshooting, and delivering professional presentations. Students will master slide organization, data visualization, visual design conventions, file management, and delivery techniques to produce and present polished work.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze slide content and apply visual design guidelines (including use of simple backgrounds, limited bullet levels, and clear charts/diagrams) to improve clarity and audience comprehension across a multi-slide presentation
• Apply advanced PowerPoint features by creating images with Copilot, prompting respectfully for AI assets, inserting and manipulating 3D models, and constructing Treemap, Sunburst, and Map charts to represent complex data
• Demonstrate effective workflow and file-management practices by organizing slides into sections, using backup and version controls, saving and closing presentations correctly, and employing help and troubleshooting shortcuts (e.g., Ctrl+Z) to resolve common issues
• Evaluate and rehearse presentation delivery by using slide view modes, navigation controls, transitions, and display settings to deliver a coherent presentation and adapt to unexpected problems during a live display