The Advanced Presentations Course sets out advanced knowledge relating to planning and designing presentations, as well as the skills needed to produce advanced presentation outputs using LibreOffice Impress

Category

Presentation Planning

Skill Set

Audience and Environment

Task Item

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.

Skill Set

Design, Content and Layout

Task Item

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.

Category

Slide Masters and Templates

Skill Set

Slide Masters

Task Item

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.

Skill Set

Templates

Task Item

Create a new template, theme.

Save a presentation as a template, modify a template, theme.

Category

Graphical Objects

Skill Set

Formatting Drawn Objects

Task Item

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.

Skill Set

Formatting Pictures, Images

Task Item

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.

Skill Set

Handling Graphical Objects

Task Item

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.

Proportionately, disproportionately rescale 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

Category

Charts and Diagrams

Skill Set

Using Charts

Task Item

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.

Skill Set

Using Diagrams

Task Item

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.

Category

Multimedia

Skill Set

Audio, Video

Task Item

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.

Skill Set

Animation

Task Item

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

Category

Enhancing Productivity

Skill Set

Linking, Embedding

Task Item

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.

Skill Set

Importing, Exporting, Securing

Task Item

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.

Category

Managing Presentation

Skill Set

Custom Shows

Task Item

Create, show a named custom slide show.

Copy, edit, delete a custom slide show.

Skill Set

Slide Show Settings

Task Item

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.

Skill Set

Slide Show Delivery

Task Item

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.