Getting your presentation design off to the right start is essential. In this masterclass we look at how to create a PowerPoint template from scratch, teaching you how to set the template masters, the colour scheme, layout options, fonts and animation effects.

Learn how to use PowerPoint’s inbuilt features to create engaging, beautiful learning that will captivate your audience. Equip your teams to quickly and easily create dynamic, visual content using a tool they already have.

Join this 30-minute masterclass and learn how to zip around Google Slides effortlessly, with tips to boost your productivity and make content quickly.

Gamification is a buzzword in the learning industry. Done well and it can have a huge impact on learners, done poorly and all that time, effort, and money may well have created something cool, but ineffective at achieving the behaviour change it was meant to help with. During this session we're going to take a step back to dig into what makes gamification so effective, based on principles found in neuroscience. We'll then apply all of that learning to some examples to see good gamification in action.

This instructor-led session will run using Office 365, although many of the tools are also available in earlier versions of PowerPoint.

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Join this masterclass to learn mind-blowing tricks for using PowerPoint to create, edit, format, and export video.

It goes without saying that your presentation will likely involve some data at some point. But how you show that information and bring those numbers to life is another thing entirely. Learn how to unpack effective data vis in this 30-minute demo-led session.

In this demo-led session we'll examine PowerPoint as the tool that can help you create dynamic and immersive content whether you're presenting from a small laptop to a huge ballroom. We'll walk through the process of crafting a slide with a compelling story and bringing it to life with stunning and cinematic visuals.

Each year the BrightCarbon team produces a range of Christmas cards – all built in PowerPoint. This festive masterclass looks at the techniques we’ve used and how you can apply them to everyday presentation content to ensure that they are compelling, clear, and effective.