Steam is a video game digital distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation. This platform is used by the university to install certain items of software from games to applications. To access this platform, you must have an account. If you already have one you may sign in...
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How to Add Notes to your Presentation (Presenter View)
While giving a PowerPoint Presentation you can make use of something called Presenter view, this mode allows the projector* to display your presentation full screen without your notes showing to the audience. The second monitor* will show a ...
Animation Pane
The Animation pane allows you to change the order objects animate in, without needing to remove and reapply animations.
The Animation pane can be found in the Animations tab of the ribbon:
When selected the animation pane open in the sidebar and will...
Adding an audio file to your presentation
There are two ways to add audio to a presentation:
1. Adding Audio already on your PC (saved)
2. Record Audio (record live)
To add a clip from your computerHave the audio file saved to the computer locally as an MP3 file - (if you have...
How to create a text box
PowerPoint will generally create placeholders for text and images on each new slide unless you choose a blank slide specifically. However, sometimes you will want to create your own. The insert text-box tool is available for this situation.
In the 'Insert' tab of...
What is recording in Powerpoint?
In PowerPoint 2019 and onwards you can record a Presentation. This will save your narration of the slides (audio or video) and the timings of your slide changes and animation triggers. Once the presentation recording has been complete. The video/audio will be...
PowerPoint - Zoom Slides
PowerPoint has a new feature which mimics the style of presentation of Prezzi, using one large slide to place all of the subsequent slides on. Throughout the presentation, these slides will be zoomed into when that slide is reached, giving the impression that the whole...
Slide Master
'Slide Masters' are the templates or layouts, which are shown in in your 'new slide' button:
These can be modified, duplicated or created from new, so that you can include your own template slides to work from. Slide Master can also contain logos or images,...
Microsoft Teams is a tool designed for team communication and collaboration, combining chat, audio/video calling, file storage, and apps. You can use Microsoft Teams either from the Teams App or by using the Teams web version.
You will get the best user experience by using the Teams...
Announcements to students
Announcements to students are posted on Moodle. They are posted in either an area’s news forum, or on the ‘Student News (Other)’ page. Students navigate to the appropriate news forums to read them. Announcements are also emailed to anyone who has chosen to enrol on that...