Introduction to Microsoft Power Point

Associate Degree in Office Information Technology

CS 130

Breyer State University
Instructor: Warren Seetahal MBA, BSc, MCSE

SYLLABUS

COURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to an exciting practical course in the curriculum for the Degree, Associates in Office Information Technology. I will be pleased to instruct you in this course. This is a practical course in which you will explore, learn and master the Microsoft PowerPoint program, a module of the Microsoft Office suite of applications.

Microsoft PowerPoint is a program that is used by every business sector to provide powerful presentations formatted for on-screen viewing, for the web, for overhead projectors and even for 35 mm slides.

After completing this course you will be able to create professionally designed presentations that are carefully planned so that an audience can be kept alert without providing too many distractions. You will learn how to choose appropriate color schemes, add clip-art, animate text, add animated picture files, customize backgrounds, add sound and video, include chart data, and add documents and organizational charts.

You will also learn how to automatically print out handouts and speaker notes, and how to publish your presentation to the web. You will learn advanced techniques that will allow you to be able to automatically create summary and agenda slides, customize schemes, hide slides, incorporate one presentation into another, use hyperlinks within slideshows, create your own templates, generate meeting notes and much more.

TIME FRAME: This is a five-semester hour course. This course is allotted ten weeks of time. You must complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by the end of the ten-week period. The first day of week one will begin the day that you register for the course, or the day which you notify me that your textbooks have arrived and you are ready to begin your studies. Please be cognizant of the time frame. It is rare that extensions of time are permitted, unless you have good justification. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded five semester hours of credit.

TEXTBOOKS: There is only one required text book for this course:

Book 1: DDC Learning Microsoft PowerPoint 2002. Sue Plumley; ISBN # 1-58577-169-4.

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EXAMINATIONS: There is only one exam for this course which must be taken at the end of the tenth week of the course. This exam will account for 50 percent of your overall grade.

The exam is programmed and located in the online classroom for this course. The examination is an open-book examination. The exam consists of twenty-five questions and you will have thirty minutes to complete the questions. To access the exam, you must send me an email and request to have access to the exam. I will then grant your information to access the examination questions for the specified time period. You will receive an email from me indicating the necessary information required to access the examination. Once you navigate to the classroom, click on testing, and click on the exam you are taking. You will need your User ID and PASS WORD to access the exam. The exam will appear on your screen. Once you access the exam, you have 30 minutes to submit your answers. The program provides me with the exact date and time that you accessed the exam. The program also notifies me of the exact date and time that you submitted your answers. When you are ready you can click on the submit button to send your answers to me. You will receive an email with your exam score and you will receive a copy of the examination with the correct answers within 72 hours; hence you will be able to know where you went wrong.

GRADING: The grading scale for this course is as follows:

90-100 %    = A
80-89 %      = B
70-79 %      = C
Below 70%  = Fail

COMMUNICATION: You are encouraged to communicate with me. I am available as a teacher, coach, and mentor to assist you in meeting your goals for this course. Primarily, communication is through email. However, I am also available for conversation by telephone if you would like. Our classroom for this course has a "chat" room. I am also willing to meet with you one-on-one in the chat room at a mutually convenient time. From time to time, depending on how many students are enrolled in this course at a particular time, we will have some scheduled group chats. You will receive information regarding dates and times for chat sessions. Upon registration for this course you will be given my contact information which includes a telephone contact number, ICQ# information and MSN messenger information. I am also available for communication over MSN chat; hence you may be able to save on some of those high phone bills costs. If at any time during this course you change your email address or other contact information, please be sure to notify me immediately.

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: You will be required to work on a project that will account for 50 % of your final grade. This project can be undertaken as an individual or a group project. There will be no more than three persons per group.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: I, Warren Seetahal, MBA, BSc, MCSE currently teach undergraduate courses at Breyer State University . I hold a degree in Masters in Business Administration, one in Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a major in Accounting, and I am a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. I have worked in many companies primarily being responsible for change through technology. I have served as project manager, ISO 9002 auditor and Information Systems Manager for many companies. I have been a swimmer and table-tennis player for the past sixteen years. I am currently pursuing RHCE certification and intend to pursue a PhD in Operations Research and Information Systems in the near future.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

1). Navigate the main screens/views in PowerPoint.
2). Create presentations with templates or wizards.
3). Use Headers and footers.
4). Send presentations via email and adding a routing slip.
5). Change slide order.
6). Change slide layouts.
7). Use and modify the slide master.
8). Use/modify/create design templates.
9). Understand promotion and demotion.
10). Work with clipart and word art.
11). Use Animation.
12). Use Speaker notes, handouts and slides.
13). Use the Pen Tool.
14). Print overheads, slides and notes.
15). Publish to the web.
16). Use Hyperlinks in presentations.
17). Create summary slides and agenda slides.
18). Create an auto-content wizard and a design template.
19). Add presentations within presentations.
20). Work with slide timings, text effects, object transitions and slide transitions.
21). Work with textured backgrounds and tables.
22). Work with sound and video.
23). Export and importing information from word and excel.
24). Save slides to graphic files.
25). Automatically generate meeting notes.
26). Save the presentation for another system - Pack N' Go.
27). Embed objects and fonts into presentations.
28). Customize the toolbar and creating new toolbars.
29). Build and modifying charts.
30). Set up a broadcast.
31). Use Net Meeting to schedule a Broadcast.

ASSIGNMENTS: For specific assignments, please click on the link "Assignments" found in your classroom.

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