Getting the Most from Your Presentations with GenAI

Course Description Overview

Course Number:
091179
Course Length:
0.5 day
Course Description Overview:
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini have taken the world by storm. Business users have found numerous creative ways to use these tools to get their work done faster and more efficiently. This includes the development of business presentations. Whether you use Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, LibreOffice Impress, or another application to produce your slides, GenAI tools can help you generate text and image content for your slides, as well as presenter notes and handouts. This is even possible using free online AI tools that don't require additional costs beyond your current investment in your office productivity software.


Course Objectives:

In this course, you will use generative AI tools to help you develop business presentations. You will:

  • Select and use generative AI tools to generate text content for presentation slides and handouts.
  • Generate images and design ideas you can use in a presentation.
  • Generate presenter notes and handout content for use in a presentation.
Target Student:
This course is designed for professionals in a variety of roles who currently use presentation software to accomplish business tasks, and who want to enhance their use of presentation software by leveraging freely available generative AI tools.
Prerequisites:
To ensure your success in this course, you should know how to perform basic presentation development tasks using presentation software. You can obtain this level of skills and knowledge by taking the Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® for Office 365 (Desktop or Online): Part 1 course from United States Career Campus.
Course-specific Technical Requirements Software:

For this course, every participant (students and instructor) will require a Windows computer with:

    • An Internet connection.
    • A recent version of the Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word desktop applications.
    • Microsoft Edge web browser.


NOTE: Other web browsers can be used additionally, but Edge is specifically required for certain activities performed in Lesson 3.


Account Requirements:


Each student and the instructor will require access to at least two and preferably three free generative AI tools, at least two of which can generate images as well as text. The tools used when writing this course were Copilot, Gemini™, and ChatGPT . See the Instructor Edition of the courseware manual for more specific requirements and suggested account setup procedures.

Course-specific Technical Requirements Hardware:
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Certification reference (where applicable)
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Course Content:

Lesson 1: Using AI to Generate Text Ideas and Content

Topic A: Brainstorm Presentation Ideas

Topic B: Use a Chatbot to Generate a Presentation

Topic C: Prepare AI-Generated Text for PowerPoint

Topic D: Import and Format AI-Generated Slide Content


Lesson 2: Using AI for Graphic Development

Topic A: Brainstorm Image and Design Ideas

Topic B: Writing Better Image Generation Prompts


Lesson 3: Using AI to Generate Presenter Notes and Handout Content

Topic A: Expand Slide Bullets into Paragraphs for Notes and Handouts

Topic B: Use Chatbot-Based Web Search to Find Additional Information Sources

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