Creating PowerPoint Presentations

For Presentations submitted to

Professor Blank
 Specific Formatting
• Since my courses are on corporate computing,
and many corporations have specific formats
required for presentations, I require using
PowerPoint with a specific format when lectures
are submitted to share with the class.
• If this is not possible for you, send me an email
with your difficulty and I will consider an
alternative.
Slide Layout and Design
• You must use this Slide Design, except for team
presentations, when you can use your own.
• You must use the appropriate Slide Layout for each
slide. (menu: Format, Slide Design or Slide Layout)
• Title, Single and Double bulleted lists, Graphic
layouts are common. If a graphic is too large to fit
with a title, use the plain layout.
• Slides 1 and 6 are title slides, 9 graphics, 10 mixes
graphics, 8 double bulleted list, rest are mostly
bulleted lists.
Plagiarism
• If you use a resource in your project, cite it in
a page of references.
• Here is a Library of Congress guide to citing
electronic sources:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/start/cit
e/index.html
Formatting instructions
• The following slides show examples of the
only permitted formatting options and text
colors and sizes for your presentations.
Failure to follow the specified format will
result in lost points. (You can substitute Times
New Roman for Arial.)
• Do not put student ID numbers on slides!
Title in 44 Point Ariel

Your name in 32 Point Ariel

Heading in 40-44 Point Ariel
• Body Text in 28-32 Point Ariel
• Bulleted lists with this bullet format
– No more than one indent level
– Format Line Spacing 0.9 to 1 line
– 0 to 0.2 Lines before paragraph
– 0 lines after paragraph
Code Examples in 24 point Courier New Bold
Double Bulleted List Example

• This list is given in the • This is the maximum

minimum acceptable
size font with the acceptable size font
minimum acceptable with maximum
spacing. spacing.
• (Example only--Do not
mix sizes like this on
one slide.)
 Graphics Example

These are the colors in the color palette

 Using Screen Shots
If you are cutting and pasting graphics from your screen into
PowerPoint, set your screen size to no larger than 800 by 600
and your color choices to 256 colors. Files over 2 MB will get
points deducted.
 Presentation and Templates
• This is an example of a presentation. It has the file
extension .ppt.
• You can create a template from a presentation. It will have
the file extension .pot.
• Note that RED (except NJIT and my logos) and BLUE are
not authorized colors.

Use only these colors for your font choices

Code Examples
• If you are using software code in your presentation,
keep the example as simple as possible. Avoid any
content that is not directly related to what you are
trying to teach.
• Remember that all code should use 24 point Courier
New Bold
• I will allow 20 or 18 point
point Courier New Bold
Courier New Bold where needed to fit code listings
attractively on a page.
Special Effects
• Do not use custom bullets. Only large square bullets in the
colors of the font palette are permitted.
• Avoid special effects like page transitions. They distract from the
content of the presentation.
• Slides should be user paced, not presented with timed
transitions.
• Animations should be rare and have an important teaching
purpose.
• Don’t use fancy PowerPoint techniques just to show that you
know how to use them. Concentrate on your topic!
• Do not use sound in presentations.
 Warning
• Files with strange bullets, text that is smaller than 28 point
or neither Arial nor Times New Roman, code that is not in 24
point Courier New Bold and identified by color, line
spacing closer than 0.9 lines, the use of unauthorized
colors, additional title slides, and inappropriate layouts are
each adequate justification for the total rejection of a
presentation. In general, I have found that students who
can’t follow instructions also cannot write a decent
presentation, so there are no second chances.
Keep It Simple
• A lecture is finished, not when you have
added everything you can think of, but when
you have eliminated everything that does not
directly contribute to the topic you want to
teach.
• You are trying to help someone understand a
topic. You are not trying to show off your own
exotic knowledge!
 Check your file size!
• After your presentation is finished, check the
size of the PowerPoint file. If it is over 1
megabyte (2 megabytes for presentations over
30 slides), you probably have some high
resolution images that need to be reduced to a
smaller size. Larger files than 2 MB are often
blocked by email services.
References
• The last slide in your presentation should be
a list of references, and it should be called
References, not Bibliography.