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Creating Powerpoint, Rules

- Professor Blank requires students to submit PowerPoint presentations for class following specific formatting guidelines, including using a provided slide design and layouts, Arial font in sizes between 24-44 points, and only specified colors. - Presentations must cite sources and avoid complex animations, sounds, or transitions, keeping the focus on content. Slides with unapproved formatting or over 2MB in file size may be rejected.

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Creating Powerpoint, Rules

- Professor Blank requires students to submit PowerPoint presentations for class following specific formatting guidelines, including using a provided slide design and layouts, Arial font in sizes between 24-44 points, and only specified colors. - Presentations must cite sources and avoid complex animations, sounds, or transitions, keeping the focus on content. Slides with unapproved formatting or over 2MB in file size may be rejected.

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Creating PowerPoint Presentations

For Presentations submitted to


Professor Blank
Specific Formatting
• Since my courses are on corporate
computing, and many corporations have
specific formats required for presentations, I
require using PowerPoint with a specific
format when lectures are submitted to
share with the class.
• If this is not possible for you, send me an
email with your difficulty and I will consider
an alternative.
Slide Layout and Design
• You must use this Slide Design, except for
team presentations, when you can use your
own.
• You must use the appropriate Slide Layout for
each slide. (menu: Format, Slide Design or
Slide Layout)
• Title, Single and Double bulleted lists, Graphic
layouts are common. If a graphic is too large
to fit with a title, use the plain layout.
• Slides 1 and 6 are title slides, 9 graphics, 10
mixes graphics, 8 double bulleted list, rest are
mostly bulleted lists.
Plagiarism
• If you use a resource in your project,
cite it in a page of references.
• Here is a Library of Congress guide to
citing electronic sources:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/s
tart/cite/index.html
Formatting instructions
• The following slides show examples of
the only permitted formatting options
and text colors and sizes for your
presentations. Failure to follow the
specified format will result in lost points.
(You can substitute Times New Roman
for Arial.)
• Do not put student ID numbers on
slides!
Title in 44 Point Ariel

Your name in 32 Point Ariel


Heading in 40-44 Point Ariel
• Body Text in 28-32 Point Ariel
• Bulleted lists with this bullet format
– No more than one indent level
– Format Line Spacing 0.9 to 1 line
– 0 to 0.2 Lines before paragraph
– 0 lines after paragraph
Code Examples in 24 point Courier New Bold
Double Bulleted List Example

• This list is given in • This is the


the minimum
acceptable size font maximum
with the minimum acceptable size
acceptable spacing. font with
• (Example only--Do
maximum
not mix sizes like
this on one slide.) spacing.
Graphics Example

These are the colors in the color


palette
Using Screen Shots
If you are cutting and pasting graphics from your screen into
PowerPoint, set your screen size to no larger than 800 by 600
and your color choices to 256 colors. Files over 2 MB will get
points deducted.
Presentation and Templates
• This is an example of a presentation. It has the file
extension .ppt.
• You can create a template from a presentation. It
will have the file extension .pot.
• Note that RED (except NJIT and my logos) and
BLUE are not authorized colors.

Use only these colors for your font choices


Code Examples
• If you are using software code in your
presentation, keep the example as simple as
possible. Avoid any content that is not directly
related to what you are trying to teach.
• Remember that all code should use 24 point
Courier New Bold
• I will allow or 18 point
20 point Courier New Bold
Courier New Bold where needed to fit code listings
attractively on a page.
Special Effects
• Do not use custom bullets. Only large square bullets in
the colors of the font palette are permitted.
• Avoid special effects like page transitions. They distract
from the content of the presentation.
• Slides should be user paced, not presented with timed
transitions.
• Animations should be rare and have an important
teaching purpose.
• Don’t use fancy PowerPoint techniques just to show that
you know how to use them. Concentrate on your topic!
• Do not use sound in presentations.
Warning
• Files with strange bullets, text that is smaller than
28 point or neither Arial nor Times New Roman, code
that is not in 24 point Courier New Bold and identified
by color, line spacing closer than 0.9 lines, the use of
unauthorized colors, additional title slides, and
inappropriate layouts are each adequate justification
for the total rejection of a presentation. In general, I
have found that students who can’t follow
instructions also cannot write a decent presentation,
so there are no second chances.
Keep It Simple
• A lecture is finished, not when you have
added everything you can think of, but
when you have eliminated everything
that does not directly contribute to the
topic you want to teach.
• You are trying to help someone
understand a topic. You are not trying
to show off your own exotic knowledge!
Check your file size!
• After your presentation is finished, check
the size of the PowerPoint file. If it is over
1 megabyte (2 megabytes for
presentations over 30 slides), you
probably have some high resolution
images that need to be reduced to a
smaller size. Larger files than 2 MB are
often blocked by email services.
References
• The last slide in your presentation
should be a list of references, and it
should be called References, not
Bibliography.

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