Giving Presentations

Presentations

• Why is it important?

  Complex ideas need to be communicated to your audience as clearly as possible, so they can understand your thinking without any difficulty or distortion.  This involves thinking about what they need to know, the best way to get that across, and how ideas are structured. 

  How do I do it?

  Presentations are about you as the presenter, as much as anything you put on screen. You need to make a connection with your audience through eye contact, open body language and a friendly tone.

• Learning Outcomes

  In this course, you will:
  

  • Consider the importance of structuring ideas in a presentation
    
  • Reflect on visual aids to support your presentation
    
  • Review strategies to prepare for the delivery of your presentation
    
  • Develop an awareness of successful approaches for presentation delivery
    
• Instructions

  This course should take around 1.5 hours to complete.  There are different activities marked 'Activity (x mins)' which you need to complete. Some of these have multiple steps. 

  Please have post-its and/or paper and some pens with you as you work through the activities.

• How to Enrol and Navigate

  Watch the short introduction video below on how to enrol onto the course and navigate the content.

• How to enrol and navigate these courses (1m30s) URL
• Solent students!

  Use the 'Click here to enrol on this page' button to be awarded a digital badge for completing this course. 

  To achieve a completion badge, you must engage with all the activities. Activity completion will be gathered from selected activities that will be automatically ticked as you engage with the activity. 

  Click here to enrol on the page

  
  

  Not a Solent student? 

  No problem!  You can still access the learning content and activities without enrolling. 

• Key terms for giving presentations
  

  Click on the words below to see a description of what they mean in the context of your university studies.