Using Power Point
Hints and tips
for IGCSE students
Using Power Point
What is PowerPoint
• A Presentation Authoring package
• Used for showing slide shows
• Used for teaching or lecturing
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What objects can be used
• Text
• Static images
• Moving images
• Graphs and charts
• Sound
• Transitions
• Animations
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Ease of use
• 86% of students Students
found it easy to use 5
12
• 120 students in the
sample.
Number of students
Easy to use 103
Difficult 12 103
No response 5
Easy Difficult
No response
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The image has
Pathways been placed on the
master slide.
• Hyperlinks can be used
• They offer different paths through the
presentation
• For teachers
• For students
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Now experiment
• Play with PowerPoint © Microsoft
• Try its features
• Have fun!
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