First-time setup and success checks
Lesson goal in plain language: Prepare concise speaker notes and deliver a presentation using keyboard commands.
Prepare before step 1
- Open the correct application, website, or device screen and wait for its name to be announced.
- Open PowerPoint manual and review the matching procedure if any command or term is unfamiliar.
- Use only fictional, public, disposable, or instructor-provided practice information. Make a copy before changing an important file.
- Read all numbered instructions once before performing them so you know the intended final result.
Commands used or referenced
F6, F5, Spacebar, Backspace, Enter, Escape, Alt+Q, Insert+Spacebar,
For a plus-sign command, hold the modifier key, press and release the final key, then release the modifier. For a sequence, press and release each key in order. Stop after every command and listen for the result.
Work and verify
- Perform one numbered instruction and stop. Identify the active window, focused control, selected item, cell, slide, message, field, or device area before continuing.
- Compare the result with the lesson goal. A sound alone is not enough; verify the name, state, value, location, permission, or content.
- If the result is wrong, press Escape once to leave an unexpected menu, identify focus again, and use Undo only when the change is safely reversible.
- Save or synchronize at natural stopping points. Use the required filename PowerPoint-Lesson-9.pptx.
- Complete the “Before submitting” checklist from top to bottom. Correct missing items before marking the lesson complete.
- Close and reopen the practice item, or return to it from the product’s main screen, to prove you can locate and verify the result independently.
Success standard: Explain what each major command did, show the finished result, and recover from one harmless focus or navigation error without another person naming the next key.
Goal
Prepare concise speaker notes and deliver a presentation using keyboard commands.
Skills practiced
- Add speaker notes.
- Start a slide show from the beginning or current slide.
- Move through slides and end the show.
- Provide spoken descriptions for important visuals.
Step-by-step instructions
- Open PowerPoint-Lesson-8.pptx.
- Press F6 until JAWS announces the Notes pane for the current slide.
- Add two or three short speaker-note prompts. Do not paste the entire slide into the notes.
- Add notes to every content slide.
- For slides with meaningful images or charts, include a prompt to describe the important information aloud.
- Press F5 to start the slide show from the beginning.
- Use Right Arrow, Spacebar, or Page Down to move forward.
- Use Left Arrow, Backspace, or Page Up to move backward.
- Press a slide number followed by Enter to move directly to that slide when needed.
- Press B to display a black screen during a pause, then press B again to return.
- Press Escape to end the slide show.
- Save the presentation as PowerPoint-Lesson-9.pptx.
Keyboard help: Press Alt+Q to search PowerPoint commands when Ribbon KeyTips differ. For JAWS help, press Insert+Spacebar, then J, and search for the task.
Your assignment
Add useful speaker notes to every content slide and practice delivering the presentation entirely with the keyboard.
Save the finished assignment as PowerPoint-Lesson-9.pptx.
Before submitting
- Every content slide has concise speaker notes.
- Notes include prompts to describe important visuals.
- The presentation was tested from beginning to end with keyboard commands.
- The file is saved as PowerPoint-Lesson-9.pptx.
Submit PowerPoint Lesson 9
Choose your completed assignment file. Accepted file types are PPTX or PDF. The maximum file size is 10 MB.
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