Slide Design, Media, and Management

This unit advances learners from basic slide creation to effective slide design, media integration, and file management for professional presentations. Students will practice inserting and formatting visual elements, producing and optimizing media, and using cloud and collaboration tools while applying presentation design principles for clarity and audience engagement.

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate organized file and collaboration workflows by saving and versioning presentations in OneDrive and Teams, placing files in appropriate folders, and understanding presentation file types and opening procedures
• Apply multimedia creation and optimization techniques to craft video content, record narration, compress media for distribution, and use Copilot features to edit or replace images while preserving quality
• Create and modify visual slide elements—including inserting and drawing tables, resizing/cropping images, adding WordArt and shapes, adjusting slide size and backgrounds, and building charts and SmartArt with accurate data and chart types
• Evaluate slide layout and content for readability and audience impact by enforcing design rules (e.g., limiting bullets, avoiding small text, providing context, and minimizing unnecessary detail) and revising formatting to enhance communication