Getting the Most from Your Presentations with GenAI

Getting the Most from Your Presentations with GenAI

This course is part of Maximize Office Productivity with GenAI Specialization

Instructor: Bill Rosenthal

Access provided by Imperial College London

4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Develop complete slide decks from scratch, using AI assistants to generate outlines and import them into your presentation software.
Design custom graphics and visual layouts with advanced AI prompts, learning how to overcome common AI design flaws and apply cohesive styling.
Use AI to draft speaker notes, handouts, and research web sources.
Learn by doing. Perform guided, step-by-step hands-on activities on your own computer.

Skills you'll gain

Tools you'll learn

Details to know

Shareable certificate

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Assessments

1 assignment

Taught in English

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This course is part of the Maximize Office Productivity with GenAI Specialization

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Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 4 modules in this course

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini™ have taken the world by storm. Business users have found numerous creative ways to use these tools to get their work done faster and more efficiently. This includes the development of business presentations. Whether you use Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Google Slides™, LibreOffice® Impress, or another application to produce your slides, GenAI tools can help you generate text and image content for your slides, as well as presenter notes and handouts. This is even possible using free online AI tools that don't require additional costs beyond your current investment in your office productivity software.

This course is designed for professionals in a variety of roles who currently use presentation software to accomplish business tasks, and who want to enhance their use of presentation software by leveraging freely available generative AI tools. In this course, you will: select and use generative AI tools to generate text content for presentation slides and handouts, generate images and design ideas you can use in a presentation, and generate presenter notes and handout content for use in a presentation. This course assumes the use of Microsoft PowerPoint for slideshow-related tasks, but other slideshow programs like Google Slides should be sufficient. You also need access to free accounts for major genAI services like ChatGPT and Gemini.

Most writers, at some point or another, have faced the problem of writer's block. You have to compose a letter, paper, speech, or a slide presentation, and are daunted with the task of what to write about or where to even begin. Now, with generative AI tools such as Copilot, Gemini™, and ChatGPT, you have an ever-ready team of creative partners to help get you started in the process of brainstorming, research, and writing.

What's included

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8 pluginsTotal 165 minutes

Getting Started with This Course15 minutes
Lesson Introduction5 minutes
Brainstorm Presentation Ideas30 minutes
Use a Chatbot to Generate a Presentation30 minutes
Prepare AI-Generated Text for PowerPoint30 minutes
Import and Format AI-Generated Slide Content30 minutes
Mastery Builder: Using AI to Create a PowerPoint Presentation20 minutes
Lesson Summary5 minutes

You've seen how creative generative AI tools can be with text. Now that you have the text for the presentation, you'll want to add images and formatting to help communicate ideas more effectively and to make your slides more visually attractive.

What's included

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In many cases, a slide show with graphics and bulleted text is only a portion of what you need to create for a presentation. You also may need to create notes for the presenter and handout materials for participants. Generative AI can help you with these tasks as well.