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18 weeks
Powerpoint: Office Fundamentals Series
Learn to create clean and professional presentations while also building your skills as a speaker, leader, and marketer! Create and format presentations while inserting multimedia, images, transitions, and animations to make a dynamic final product! Content of this course will also be applicable to the Microsoft Office Suite certification exam.
Unit 1: Plugging in to PowerPoint
Create a PowerPoint document.
Format the appearance and layout of PowerPoint slides.
Collaborate and share PowerPoint projects with others.
Utilize different views available in PowerPoint.
Unit 2: Make a Powerful Point
Draw on design principles when creating a PowerPoint presentation.
Format text and WordArt in a slideshow.
Create and format shapes and images in a slideshow.
Order and group objects on a slide.
Import a Word Outline to create a slideshow.
Unit 3: Chart Your Future
Understand various types of business metrics.
Create, import, and style tables, charts, and graphs in PowerPoint.
Choose the best chart for a given scenario.
Manipulate data in a PowerPoint table, chart, and graph.
Unit 4: Growing Pains
Perform the leadership roles of a team leader.
Communicate effectively with others.
Create, insert, and format SmartArt Graphics.
Convert lists to SmartArt graphics.
Unit 5: The AV Club
Design a multimedia presentation.
Include sound effects in a presentation.
Insert and configure video in a presentation.
Identify new presentation technologies.
Unit 6: Animators, Ready!
Apply slide transitions including timing and effects.
Animate slide objects such as text and shapes.
Sequence, order, group and time multiple animations.
Utilize a motion path in an animated object.
Unit 7: The Final Product
Apply final formatting to a presentation.
Evaluate and plan a presentation’s approach and form.
Proof a presentation for publication.
Protect a presentation for sharing.
Unit 8: Making It
Build a marketing plan and materials.
Market and manage a personal online presence.
Effectively work in, manage, and lead a team.
Evaluate a presentation’s success.
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The Experiences Pathway allows students to demonstrate mastery of competencies and earn credit through experiences, such as internships, travel, service learning, entrepreneurship, or independent study. Students may elect to meet all competencies in a particular competency group (i.e., English 1 or Economics) or they can master competencies in multiple discipline areas. Once a student enrolls, a VLACS instructor will work with the student to refine the Experience, identify the competencies that will be met, and determine products that will demonstrate mastery of each competency.
In Experiences students will:
Here is how to enroll in an Experience.
By signing up for an independent study, you will be able to direct your own learning, identifying what you want to learn and how you will demonstrate that you mastered your learning objectives.
Internships allow you to gain professional experience, make connections, and become familiar with a career while working on site with mentors and professionals in a career of your interest.
While travel can be a great experience for learning life lessons, it is also an excellent way to acquire the knowledge and skills that allow you to demonstrate mastery in a variety of competencies. The world is a classroom and travel experiences will connect your real world experiences to the learning that you seek.
In Service Learning, you collaborate with members of your community to address issues to improve your community. You will connect your service with discipline-specific content so that learning can take place through problem solving and collaboration.
Starting your own business is a great way to learn. This type of experience allows you to engage in an entrepreneurial experience and receive credit for competencies you master through this experience.
We offer regular online open house webinars where VLACS staff members provide parents and students with an overview of our programs and answer questions about online learning.
