Content Creation (Part 1)

Learning Management System Training

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Outlines

What the Content Creation is

Content Creation for LMS

Developing an Effective Lecture

Tips for Effective PowerPoint Presentations

Steps for creating PowerPoint Presentation

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Learning Outcomes

• To understand importance of content creation in LMS

• To know tips for effective PowerPoint presentation
• To know PowerPoint features for creating lecture slides

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What the Content Creation is

• The contribution of information to any media and most especially to digital

media for an audience in specific contexts.
• Academic institutions create content in the form of presentation lectures, or
video lectures that support a massive open online course (MOOC).

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Content Creation for LMS

• Creating Lecture Contents

• Delivering Lecture Contents
Download assignment
• Monitoring, Assessing and
Analyzing Learner Progress
• Reporting
• Managing Teachers and
Students Teachers
Students

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Popular Presentation Software

• The first and most well-known presentation software that any of us has ever used is Microsoft
PowerPoint.

• Another well-known presentation software are-

• Apple’s Keynote

• Google Slides

• Slidebean

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Developing an Effective Lecture
Outline your content
Formulate your content as a narrative
Collect relevant data and examples
Prepare learning objectives, learning outcomes and related references
Prepare timeline
Choose a color scheme
Design your slide backgrounds
Format your content for maximum impact
End with a strong, take-home notes
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Tips for Effective PowerPoint Presentations

• Apply stable layout

• Clear design and color
• Use contrasting colors for text and background. Dark
text on a light background is the best.
Layout Design • Use a single style for bullets throughout the page
• Leave empty space around the text and graphical
images
• Minimize visual direction
• Patterned backgrounds can reduce readability of text.

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Tips for Effective PowerPoint Presentations

• Use the same font for all your headlines.

• Use bold and different sizes of those fonts for captions
and subheadings.
• Use larger fonts to indicate importance.
• Use different colors, sizes and styles (e.g., Bold) for
Fonts impact.
• Avoid long sentences.
• Font size generally ranges from 18 to 48 point
• Limit punctuation and avoid putting words in all capital
letters.
• Empty space on the slide will enhance readability.

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Tips for Effective PowerPoint Presentations

Presentation period (between 30 Limit the number of

slides
to 45 minutes)
(< 30 slides)

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Steps for creating PowerPoint Presentation

1. Open a blank (or existing) presentation.

2. Choose Slide Size.

• Design Tab > Slide Size . WideScreen ( 16:9) is widely used.

3. Choose a “theme” or create your own.

• Choose a readymade Theme or create your own using Slide Master

4. Create a variety of slides for different purposes

• A title slide
• An agenda or table of contents slide
• A slide that introduces the lecture
• Various content slides (create different layouts considering what kind of
multimedia you'll use)
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Steps for creating PowerPoint Presentation (Cont’d)

5. Add Animations to text and objects (Optional)

6. Add Transitions to your slides (Optional)

7. Make Recordings (Optional)

8. Add Slide number and Footer

9. Save Presentation
• As .pptx or .mp4

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Choosing a Theme

• Very first step is Choosing Theme to customize your presentation.

• On the Design tab, you can choose your desired Themes and can also ajust
Variants.

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Choosing a Theme

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Using Slide Master
• Open the View tab, then choose Slide Master to control the look of your entire
presentation.

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Using Slide Master: adding logo

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Using Slide Master : adding logo

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Formatting Text

• You can add text by selecting

the text placeholders, start
Title
typing.
Placeholder • You can –
➢ change the fonts
➢ change the color of text
on a slide
➢ add bullets or numbers to
text
➢ align text paragraph
➢ format text as bold, italic,
Content underline, etc.
Placeholder

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Adding Contents : pictures

• On the Insert tab, do one of

the following:

• To insert a picture that is

saved on your local drive,
choose This Device, browse
for the picture, and then
choose Insert.

• To insert a picture from the

web, choose Online Pictures,
and use the search box to
find a picture.
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Formatting Pictures

Double click on the picture you wish to

format.

Under Picture Format Tab, you can

➢ Adjust picture
➢ Resize or Crop the picture
➢ Arrange picture position

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Adding Contents : Videos

• Choose the Insert tab,

• To insert a video that is saved on
your local drive, choose Video on
My PC, browse for the video, and
then choose Insert.

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Formatting Videos: Trimming

• Double click on the inserted

video, then select Playback
tab.
• Select Trim Video icon, then
Trim Video window will be
appear.
• You can trim video as you
desired.

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Adding Animations

• Select the object or

text you want to
animate.
• Select Animations and
choose an animation.
• Select Effect Options
and choose an effect.
• Select Timing.

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Preview of Animations

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Adding Transitions

• Adding Transitions
between slides make
your presentation more
engaging.
• Select the slide you want
to add a transition to.
• Select the Transitions
tab and choose a
transition.
• Select Effect Options to
choose the direction and
nature of the transition.

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Preview of Transitions

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Inserting Slide Number, Footer and Date and Time

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Using Design Ideas Feature

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Viewing Slide Show

On the Slide Show tab,

• Choose From
Beginning (F5) to start
your presentation
from the first slide.
• Choose From Current
Slide (Shift+F5) to
start from current
selected slide.

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Saving A Presentation

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Saving a presentation in a variety of file type

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Summary

• Developing an Effective Lecture

• Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint
• Preparing PowerPoint Presentation
SUMMARY

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References

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/basic-tasks-for-creating-a-
powerpoint-presentation-efbbc1cd-c5f1-4264-b48e-c8a7b0334e36
• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-presentation-in-
powerpoint-422250f8-5721-4cea-92cc-202fa7b89617
• https://www.onmsft.com/feature/our-top-5-tips-and-tricks-for-powerpoint-
in-office-365
• https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/powerpoint2016/
• https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/easy-powerpoint-design-tricks-ht

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 Thank You

Dr. Yu Mon Zaw

Lecturer
Faculty of Computer Science (FCS), UCSY
Email: yumonzaw@ucsy.edu.mm

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