Do you have to give presentations on a regular basis?
If so, ECDL Advanced Presentations will allow you to understand what to consider when planning and designing presentations and be able to use a range of tools within a presentation application. The syllabus covers the following:
- Audience and Environment - understand how room, audience size, lighting, subject knowledge impact on planning for a presentation
- Presentation - ensuring consistency with design, use of text and graphics, awareness of issues with font and colour
- Delivery - understand important design concepts such as logical sequencing, time and attention span
- Design - create presentation with background, logo etc. Omitting background images from a slide, applying 3D effects, image editing
- Charts and Graphs - create and change a chart or graph, create and edit an organisational chart
- Multimedia - insert sounds and movies with entry animation, introduce object animation, dim bullet points
- Slide Show Setup - rehearse timings, navigation for slides to URLs, slides, add buttons
- Link Data - link, modify and update text or data from a word document or spreadsheet
- Macros - create and run macros, assign a macro to the toolbar
See the full syllabus here. Try a sample test from the British Computer Society, or purchase an exam pack from the Learning Team, Uxbridge Library for only £70 (includes exam registration & a multitude of exercises & sample tests).
AM3 - Word Processing | AM4 - Spreadsheets | AM5 - Databases | AM6 - Presentations
