Microsoft PowerPoint 365 for Beginners

About this course

A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Mastering presentations starts here. This beginner-friendly course helps you unlock the full potential of Microsoft PowerPoint 365 through practical, hands-on lessons and real-world examples. Whether you're building slides for work, school, or personal projects, you'll gain a solid foundation in design principles, content creation, and professional delivery techniques. You'll begin by exploring the differences between PowerPoint 365 desktop and online, followed by modern slide design, templates, and quick-start tools. As you move through the course, you'll build presentations from the ground up—working with layouts, text, shapes, images, and AI-powered design features. Each section ends with an exercise to reinforce what you've learned. Next, you'll dive into creative visuals, animations, video and audio integration, as well as accessibility tools. You’ll also learn to prepare and deliver your presentation effectively using tools like Presenter View, PowerPoint Live, and real-time feedback forms. This course is ideal for students, educators, professionals, and entrepreneurs looking to build visually compelling and functional slide decks. No prior experience with PowerPoint is necessary. The course is designed for beginners and moves at a comfortable pace with guided exercises. By the end of the course, you will be able to design, build, and deliver professional-grade presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint 365 with confidence—leveraging templates, multimedia, animations, and AI-powered tools like Microsoft Copilot to enhance your impact.