PowerPoint Criteria

This badge holder passed an assessment of the standards listed below by scoring at least 85% on an unproctored exam on the Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment website.

Learners taking unproctored assessments are not supervised.

PowerPoint Badge Standards

1. Open a new or existing PowerPoint presentation.
2. Identify parts of the PowerPoint Screen: slide navigation pane, slide pane, notes, the ribbon, quick access toolbar, and scroll bars.
3. Insert new slides, duplicate, or reuse slides.
4. Manage text (insert, delete, copy, cut and paste, drag and drop, format, and use spellcheck).
5. Apply or change a theme.
6. Use zoom control.
7. Insert items into a presentation, resize, and adjust them (video, chart, pictures, clip art, screenshots).
8. Add a textbox, adjust it, resize it, or delete it.
9. Change the view of slides (normal, slide sorter, reading view, slideshow view).
10. Insert, delete and move slides using slide navigation pane.
11. Use the quick access toolbar.
12. Apply and customize slide transitions (select, preview, add sound, automatic advance).
13. Understand the basics of PowerPoint etiquette (limited text, text that stands out on background, clear titles)
14. Play a slideshow, advance through the slides, and end slideshow (using screen toolbar features).
15. Save a presentation as a .ppt, .pdf, .png, etc.
16. Create handouts.
17. Print a presentation.