“Powerpoint slides are like children: no matter how ugly they are, you’ll think they’re beautiful if they’re yours” — Scott Adams, author of the comic strip “Dilbert”. Due to this cause or another, it’s a huge stress to look at most Powerpoint slides. Depending on the “design” skills of the speaker and audience’s taste slides create different emotions from a slight annoyance to physical sickness.
This course is part of the Presentation Skills: Speechwriting, Slides and Delivery Specialization
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Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
Course 2 of 4 in the
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Approx. 307 hours to complete
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Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Chinese (Simplified), Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, Turkish, English, Spanish
Offered by
National Research Tomsk State University
National Research Tomsk State University is the largest classical university in the Asian part of Russia. For over 140 years TSU has been training the scientific and managerial elite, based on the integration of academic process and fundamental scientific research. It is a renowned center of education, science, innovations and attraction for creative talents, a generator of advanced ideas, and a paragon of adherence to the best traditions of Russian higher education.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
77 hours to complete
Part 1: Key principles of design
This week is about key principles of slide design. Non-designers usually can’t tell a good slide from a mediocre one. If they could we wouldn’t have had so many bad slides all around us. So this week we are going to fix this by learning the key principles of slide design.
77 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 58 min), 6 readings, 4 quizzes
7 videos
Trailer2m
Introduction10m
Too much text12m
Too much decoration7m
Priorities in design8m
Design Principles8m
Principles in Action9m
6 readings
We want to stay in touch with you!10m
How to get more grades?10m
Redesign10m
FAQ concerning peer-review assignments10m
External links30m
The slides10m
3 practice exercises
Slides' purpose35m
For the most curious30m
Test for week 1s
77 hours to complete
Part 2: Templates and colors meaning
This week is about templates, colors and fonts. What's wrong with most templates? Which page decorations should you use to make your slide look beautiful? (None!) What information can we pass through the colors? How to choose a typeface? Does a proper typeface make all the difference? (Yes, it does).
77 hours to complete
11 videos (Total 74 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes
11 videos
What’s wrong with the templates7m
Background6m
Page decorations3m
Colors meaning10m
Colors: Black & White8m
Colors: Yellow, Green and Blue6m
Choosing a typeface9m
Traditional vs Contemporary7m
Warm vs Cool2m
Examples6m
2 readings
External links30m
The slides10m
2 practice exercises
Practice quiz30m
Test for week 2s
77 hours to complete
Part 3: Typography and photographic illustrations
This module is about typography and photographic illustrations. Applying basic typography rules allows making decent looking slides only with text. The same goes to tables. If that’s not enough there are icons — do’s and don’ts of them when you try to spruce up your text-only slides. And finally using photos and vector arts to create really gorgeous stunning slides. Basic rules on how to search them on photo banks, how to combine them with text, when icons should be used instead of photos and vice versa.
77 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 63 min), 2 readings, 6 quizzes
9 videos
Advice on typography10m
Typographical composition3m
Tables5m
Typographic illustration6m
Using icons and photographs7m
Pictograms5m
Vector art4m
Photographs12m
2 readings
External links20m
The slides10m
2 practice exercises
Practice quiz35m
Test for week 3s
77 hours to complete
Part 4: Diagrams and data visualization
This week is about typography and photographic illustrations. Applying basic typography rules allows to make decent looking slides only with text. The same goes to tables. If that’s not enough there are icons — do’s and don’ts of them when you try to spruce up your text-only slides. And finally using photos and vector arts to create really gorgeous stunning slides. Basic rules on how to search them on photobanks, how to combine them with text, when icons should be used instead of photos and vice versa.
77 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 50 min), 3 readings, 5 quizzes
9 videos
Hierarchy diagrams4m
Process diagrams6m
Relationships diagrams6m
Data visualizations3m
Column and bar charts11m
Line charts3m
Pie charts5m
Closing remarks2m
3 readings
Please rate this course on Coursera and Class Central10m
External links20m
The slides10m
2 practice exercises
Practice quiz20m
Test for week 4s
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM PRESENTATION SKILLS: DESIGNING PRESENTATION SLIDES
by AGSep 30, 2019
Awesome course for everybody. This will help you put forward your points in a better way everytime and in any situation. It taught me simple tricks and list of todo's that one needs to keep in mind
by NDOct 5, 2020
Really helped me understand some of the fundamentals of design. I did not realize the power of icons, tables, pics, and typography. I really enjoyed the teaching and how it taught me fluid design.
by MPJul 23, 2020
It's very nice experience for me. Being a management student I have to learn some presentation skills and this course really help me. Thank you so much sir for giving me such a great opportunity.
by GYOct 4, 2018
This class has cleared many misconceptions about Powerpoint designs. And has introduced many useful skills to greatly improve your presentation in terms of clarity and passing the right message.
About the Presentation Skills: Speechwriting, Slides and Delivery Specialization
Presentations are the most popular way of communication. This Specialization has 4 courses and covers fundamentals of three major presentation skills: 1) Storytelling— the art of crafting an interesting, convincing and evidence-based script of your presentation, 2) Slide design — a merge of graphical and information design to make clean and clear slides that help you deliver your ideas 3) Delivery — the art of interacting with the audience during presentation and a tough Q&A. The 4th and final course of the Specialization is the Capstone project, where you will prepare a presentation «from scratch» with a topic that matters to you and then deliver it to your peers.
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