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Challenge 1 - Notes
Structure of your presentation. Situation 1 : Slide 1 - Explain the situation, what is happening who is involved? Slide 2 - What are the laws each person is dealing with? Who is doing right or wrong? - Name the laws. Slide 3 - Suggest a step by step ...
Presentation Tools and Visual Aids
Presentation Tools and Visual Aids LEARNING OUTCOMES Discuss key concepts to keep in mind as you create business presentations Discuss available presentation tools to help engage your audience Key Considerations Figure ...
Text Boxes and Themes
Text Boxes and Themes LEARNING OBJECTIVES Insert text boxes Change presentation themes Text Boxes As with most actions in Google slides, there are multiple ways to add a text box: Select the Text box icon from the main menu (s...
Creating and Organizing Presentations
Creating and Organizing Presentations LEARNING OUTCOMES Create and save a new presentation Add, delete, and move slides Googles Slides is free to use, but to do so requires a Google account. If you don’t already have a Google account (i...
Introduction to Using Google Slides
Introduction to Using Google Slides What you’ll learn to do: Create a presentation using Google Slides Google Slides is a free program that’s part of Google’s suite of web-based applications, including Google Docs (word processing), Sheets (spreadsheets), Sl...
Visuals: Images, Videos, and Objects
Visuals: Images, Videos, and Objects LEARNING OUTCOMES Add images and clip art Add videos Arrange objects Adding Images and Clip Art Adding art, images and photographs is a way to both personalize your slides and reinforce your messag...
Editing and Enhancing a PowerPoint Presentation
Editing and Enhancing a PowerPoint Presentation LEARNING OUTCOMES Add, delete, and move slides Insert text boxes Change theme on a presentation Now that you’ve created a presentation, let’s start adding to it! If you closed your presen...
New Presentations
New Presentations LEARNING OUTCOMES Create and save a new presentation At the Microsoft Office 365 home page, you will see a selection of apps as well as any recently-viewed documents. To open PowerPoint, click on the PowerPoint icon. Th...
Introduction to Using Microsoft PowerPoint
Introduction to Using Microsoft PowerPoint What you’ll learn to do: Create a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint PowerPoint is one of several applications in Microsoft’s Office product line, including enterprise staples Outlook (email and calendar), Exce...
Introduction to Visual Aids
Introduction to Visual Aids What you’ll learn to do: Discuss the usefulness of visual aids and identify common presentation tools How does one prepare for the proverbial call or career moment? In this module, we’ll focus specifically on busines...
Faculty Resources Overview
We’ve seen overwhelming demand for high quality, openly-licensed course materials, including supplemental resources to enrich teaching and learning and to make life easier for instructors. To support this need, we’ve developed and curated facul...
Why It Matters: Developing and Delivering Business Presentations
Why It Matters: Developing and Delivering Business Presentations It’s mid-May; a major retail management conference is less than one month away. Your manager has been recruited as a speaker in the Redesigning Retail track at the annual Sustainable Brands conf...
Additional Resources
Video List All videos used in the text of this course have been compiled in a spreadsheet for easy review. This spreadsheet details the alignment of videos appearing in the text to skill-level learning outcomes. Link to access the spreadshe...
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Question Banks
The machine-graded assessments in this course are organized by module and are aligned to specific learning outcomes. Waymaker courses assess students in three locations: Show What You Know (ungraded pretests at the beginning of each module), ...
Assignments
The assignments in this course are openly licensed, and are available as-is, or can be modified to suit your students’ needs. If you import this course into your learning management system (Blackboard, Canvas, etc.), the assignments will autom...
PowerPoints
A full set of PowerPoint decks is provided for download below. All decks are tightly aligned to the modules in this course. Since they are openly licensed, you are welcome to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute as desired. These Pow...
Offline Content Access
Lumen makes significant investments to ensure our digital courseware is more than just a textbook, allowing students to learn by doing using interactive content designed to give them frequent practice, coupled with feedback on their understandi...
Pacing
The Business Communication Skills for Managers textbook contains fifteen modules—one module per week for a sixteen-week semester (with an additional week for review). If you need to modify the pace and cover the material more quickly, the follo...
Images, Videos, and Arranging Objects
Images, Videos, and Arranging Objects LEARNING OBJECTIVES Add images and clip art Add videos Arrange objects Images and Clip Art Figure 1. Using art and images adds impact and provides welcome relief to ...