Certificate in Microsoft PowerPoint

Eleven modules, 130 lessons and about 48 hours of video, with written notes and key takeaways under every lesson and interactive questions throughout. There are eleven checkpoints of eight questions and a final assessment of twenty questions at 80 per cent, which is what issues the certificate. It goes well past slide design: two complete presentation projects, interactive and kiosk decks, accessibility, a business proposal, a whole module on animated video, two template builds, digital art, and two modules on using AI to research, draft, illustrate and assemble a deck.

Yes. Module 8 designs two templates from the visual language up, and the notes for modules 8 and 9 show you how to set one up on the Slide Master, so its fonts, colours and layouts are defined once for every slide. Module 11 adds the Morph transition, which animates an object from one slide to the next in a single step.

Not to start. PowerPoint runs free in a browser with a free Microsoft account, and that carries you through a good deal of the course. The heavier work needs the paid installed app: the advanced picture and object editing in module 2, some of the animation and trigger work, the video export in module 7 and saving a template. If you'd rather stay in free tools, Google Docs, Sheets & Slides covers Google Slides.

This course if it's the slides and the structure. It covers delivery too, in modules 5 and 10: rehearsing out loud at full length, pacing, pauses and body language. If standing up in front of people is the real worry rather than the slides, Business Communication goes deeper on the speaking.

No. Every exercise starts from a blank presentation, and where a lesson uses something from the internet, the notes name a route that costs nothing. Use pictures you have the right to use, from a free-licence photo site or an image search with its usage-rights filter left on, which is exactly what the notes teach.

Yes. It assumes nothing beyond basic computer skills and starts with installing PowerPoint and finding your way round. Each lesson is a video with written notes underneath to build along with, and the questions along the way show you what's stuck.

Yes. Pass the twenty-question final assessment at 80 per cent and you get the Certificate in Microsoft PowerPoint, an OBA certificate of completion that an employer can verify online. It isn't a Microsoft certification. The proposal, template and animated video you build along the way are the other half of the proof.

Download the free info pack first. It walks you through every module, what you'll build and what you need before you start, so you can enrol knowing exactly what you're getting. If you'd like to talk it through, get in touch and we'll help you choose.