Digital Portfolios – Creating a PowerPoint Template

INTRODUCTION: Before starting you need decide the number of slides and what subject areas will head each slide.You may want the children to have a Literacy slide and then a further break down of that slide into sub slides of Writing, Reading, Handwriting, Visual Language and any other area you decide upon.

1. Make the first slide a blank presentation.* View - Toolbars - Task Pane.* Click on task pane drop down.* Click the blank slide under the contents layout heading.* Save to a new folder called” My Digital Portfolio” or an appropriate name you decide.

2. Add the number of identical slides.* Insert – Duplicate slide as many times as required.

Task Pane

Click here

Duplicate Slide

3. Format background colour.* Format – Background.* On background window click the drop down box.* Choose colour or fill effects.* Once selected go Apply to All.

4. Insert Heading using WordArt or Text Box.

5. Insert Shape with headings for other slide. (maths, PE, art etc.)

Click Drop down

Apply to All

Insert Word Art

* Click Auto Shapes and select shape.* Right click – Add Text* Complete a shape and text for each heading.

6. * Put headings on every slide. One curriculum area per slide.* As many slides and headings as required.

7. * Right click on border of shape.* Click Action Settings.* Hyperlink to.

Auto Shapes

Add Text

* Drag slide bar down until you find the word “Slide”.* Click on “Slide”

8. * Select which slide corresponds with the shape heading that you selected. * Click ok, ok – Heading is now linked to the slide you selected.* Repeat for all heading shapes on slide one.

9. * Select slide 2.* Auto Shapes – Action Buttons.* Select home button.

Hyperlink to:

Slide

Slide 4 “Language slide”

10 * Click and drag and draw button to corner of slide.* Action Settings automatically comes up with a hyperlink to first

slide.* Click OK, link is automatically put in.

11. * Click on button then copy.* Click on slide 3.* Click Paste. Button is automatically pasted with link to home

slide.* Repeat paste for every slide.

12. To insert other files of work like a story saved on a word document.

* Make sure a copy of whichever file you want to link to is saved in the “My Digital Folder” you created as a new folder. Everything that you link to needs a copy saved in this file first.

13. * Select the slide that you want to link the outside document/file to.

Slide 2

* Insert a text box and type in the name of the document.* Highlight word – right Click – Hyperlink

Highlighted link heading

Hyperlink