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PowerPoint

  • Making Presentations with PowerPoint (Introduction) (PDF)
    Learn how to create and edit a PowerPoint presentation. Learn to add images and graphs into your presentation. Understand some design considerations for a presentation and the use of a presentation in a class lecture.
  • Creating Hyperlinked Presentations (PDF)
    Learn how to incorporate web links, hyperlinks, and buttons into a presentation, and to build an index slide to enable non-linear presentations. Learn to set up custom slide show, and how to show and hide individual slides.
  • Compressing Images in a Presentation (PDF)
    See how to quickly compress the images in a presentation.
  • Creating a Web-based Mulitimedia Presentation (PDF)
    Review design considerations for presentations that will be viewed on the web. Learn how to add slide-by-slide narration to a presentation and export the sample presentation to web pages. Upload the sample presentation to the web after compressing the PowerPoint web files.

Features and advantages of presentation software:

  • presentations can be updated or rearranged, right to the last minute
  • can incorporate color pictures, graphs, sounds, and movies seamlessly
  • color and motion can be used to capture and sustain attention and to enhance understanding
  • improves the visibility of content and materials for students in large classes
  • can print outlines or snapshots of the slides with room for students to take notes 
  • can be used to stimulate discussion or administer quiz questions
  • slide shows can be made available for review on the Web

Presentation Tips

  • Some Presentation Tips from the University of Wisconsin.
  • Presenters University contains information about creating and delivering presentations, with a section about Designing Effective Visual Aids.
  • Computer Slide Design from the UWCM Media Center.

Information about Planning and Delivering Lectures

PowerPoint is a tool that can assist you in presenting information to your class. Here are some other sites that give tips about preparing and delivering lectures:

Location and Hours

  • Computing and Communications Center Room 124 Garden Ave.
  • Open Monday-Friday 9:00AM - 5:00PM during the academic year
  • Closed on university holidays

Maintenance Schedule

Any regular system maintenance and server restarts for any of our services will be scheduled weekdays between 5:00 am and 7:00 am. All users should be aware that a system may become unavailable during this maintenance time.

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