“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
Presentation skills: Designing Presentation Slides
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National Research Tomsk State University
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Presentation Skills: Speechwriting, Slides and Delivery SpecializationNational Research Tomsk State University
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Subtitles: English, Vietnamese
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), 5 readings, 4 quizzes
7 videos
Trailer2m
Introduction10m
Too much text12m
Too much decoration7m
Priorities in design8m
Design Principles8m
Principles in Action9m
5 readings
We want to stay in touch with you!10m
Redesign10m
FAQ concerning peer-review assignments10m
External links30m
The slides10m
3 practice exercises
Slides' purpose35m
For the most curious30m
Test for week 1s
76 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).
76 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 quiz28m
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
4.7
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 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.
by AAMar 14, 2020
Just a suggestion some of the text that appear in most of the videos is not in English so its difficult to relate to the explanation. if something could be done on this part will be helpfull
by HMMar 10, 2020
This is very useful course with many practical exercises and assignment.\n\nI got many new knowledge and could applying firstly via assignments.\n\nThank your very much!
by GWDec 29, 2019
Amazing course. The instructor is knowledgeable and lucid while the content is solid. The course has helped me improve my presentation skills by leaps and bounds.
by EFJun 18, 2019
This course should be mandatory for anyone before that person is allowed to work in any job!\n\nGreat content, some key principles for working in PowerPoint.
by RDMar 15, 2018
Have done many training on how to present with power point- this one is far the best! What is even nicer is how much passion Alexey put in the work he does.
by BApr 16, 2019
Great course about presentation slides. The teacher is skilled and will help you to do better slides, it's very tangible and it's for everyone.
by JGJan 11, 2019
Some of the lessons were long. A lot to listen to. I liked re-creating slides and reviewing others' work. Got a lot of good ideas from peers.
by AEApr 1, 2019
Excellent course, the videos were interesting and entertaining to watch! I learnt some valuable skills which I will put into practice.
by HDJan 19, 2019
Thank you very much. I enjoyed the course a lot. Very practical down to earth approach without feathers and whistles.
by NPJan 1, 2020
One of the most practical and directly applicable courses I have ever taken. I wish I had taken this 10 years back.
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There are 23 departments and learning institutes, 1 University branch, Institute of Distance Education, Institute of Innovations in Education operating at TSU, and more than 17,000 students studying at the University, with 135 subject areas and specialties to choose from. TSU offers 136 Master’s programmes in 55 areas of academic studies and counting.
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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.
Our courses are designed for anyone from a rookie speaker to an established presenter. Whether you’re presenting an idea or a product or a complicated issue, this Specialization gives you tools to make it right.
We suggest you take these courses in ascending order. But feel free to choose only the courses you need.
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