Displaying Documents in PowerPoint

This is in response to a good thread in Articulate’s Elearning Heroes community about “Creative Ways to Include Links

Here are a few ways that I’ve incorporated documents and attachments in presentations / courses:

This document graphic is from one of Tom Kuhlmann’s blog posts.  In the post he shows how he built it along with providing a downloadable copy.

Plain Document:

I usually drop a screenshot of whatever document I ‘m referencing on top of this….which leads to something like this:

At the end of a course I’ve used multiple  smaller versions that are animated with each document rising out of a pocket which is then linked to the actual document.

Download the PowerPoint Template

If you’re interested here is a PowerPoint file containing these examples.

View the published demo

and an Articulate published demo.

Published by Mike Taylor

Born with a life-long passion for learning, I have the great fortune to work at the intersection of learning, design, technology & collaboration.

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