Tips for creating PowerPoint presentations for Content Point

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Tips for creating PowerPointpresentations for
Content Point

• This presentation gives hints and tips for
  creating
• PowerPoint presentations and editing existing
  material for
• use in e-learning courses.
• Edit your presentations to match these settings
  before
• importing them into Content Point for optimal
  results.

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Set the presentation size

• You should set the size of your presentation to
  match the size of your course to avoid image
  scaling
• Under File gt Page Setup, set a custom size of
  36.1 x 27.1cm (14.23 x10.67 inches). This
  equates to a course size of 1024 x 768

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Allow space for course navigation
Top navigation

• Allow space at the top and bottom of your
  PowerPoint slides to account for the navigation
  bars in your e-learning course.
• For the default navigation, this equates to 32
  pixels at the top and bottom of your presentation.

Bottom navigation
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Use a consistent slide master

• Use a single slide master in your presentations
• When you import presentations into Content Point,
  you have the option whether to include the slide
  master or not
• This allows you to match presentations to the
  existing look of your e-learning courses

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Be consistent in the use of text

• Use consistent fonts, sizes and colours in your
  presentations
• Verdana font is recommended for readability in
  ane-learning course (avoid Arial and Times as
  they do not display well)
• Use Format gt Replace Fonts to replace fonts in a
  presentation
• Size text boxes slightly larger than they need to
  be, to avoid word wrapping when imported into
  Content Point

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Images in PowerPoint

• Display images at their actual size in your
  presentations
• Double click images and select Size gt Reset to
  reset image sizes
• If you need to scale or crop images, do this in
  Microsoft Office Picture Manager then import them
• Do not paste images directly from the clipboard
  as this can lead to problems when importing to
  Content Point

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Slide notes

• Slide notes in PowerPoint are imported as slide
  notes in Content Point
• Use PowerPoint slide notes to describe how slides
  should be improved in Content Point, e.g. Use a
  multiple choice quiz on this slide

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Complex slides

• Complex slides (e.g. animations or build-ups) may
  not be recreated completely in Content Point
• Consider recreating these slides as Flash movies
  for import into Content Point, e.g. use
  FlashSpring.
• The content of these Flash movies (e.g. text and
  graphics) could be made content manageable in
  Content Point if required

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Importing PowerPoint slides into Content Point

• Increase the Quality of images setting to
  improve quality
• Use an existing background in the course if you
  want to match the imported slides to the course
  (also, dont import the Master Background)
• Content Point will re-create animations (e.g.
  text appearance), actions (e.g. auto-navigation
  between slides) and text inputs but the result
  may not be desirable. Test by importing a few
  slides to Content Point
• Content Point cannot replicate external file
  links and links to URLs. Remove these before
  importing as they can cause the import to fail.
• Animations, actions, text inputs and file links
  can be re-created in Content Point if required.