How To Start Practice For Your Presentations with the PowerPoint’s Presenter Coach
How You Can Start Practice For Your Presentations With The PowerPoint’s Presenter Coach
Microsoft PowerPoint now have what we call a Presenter Coach to let you rehearse your presentations before you can go to the audience. This coach gives you a very detailed report telling you how well you did while rehearsing and also suggesting areas you are to improve. Here’s how you can use it.
How The Presenter Coach Can Help You With Your Presentations
You have to take the Presenter Coach that you have in your PowerPoint as a trusted friend who listens to you when you practice your performing presentations. This coach gives you reviews of your entire presentation and also creates a report that details your performance.
For example, it will give you a grade for you to know how fast you speak and how much you use filler words like the “um” and “ah.” It will also give you information of words you might want to avoid and will encourage you not to simply read the words on your slides aloud.
What You’ll Need
To start using this Presenter Coach in PowerPoint, you must have:
1. A Microsoft account or a Microsoft 365 work or school account
2. A working internet connection
3. A microphone (so that PowerPoint can listen to whatever you’re saying)
Note Also: The Presenter Coach only works with the use of English language in PowerPoint. Other languages are not yet supported by it as of the time of this article.
How To Launch Your Presenter Coach in The PowerPoint
PowerPoint’s Presenter Coach can work for any presentation. You can use it with your educational, commercial, and even your family presentations.
1. To start making use of this feature, open your presentation with PowerPoint.
2. In the PowerPoint window, click the “Slide Show” tab on the ribbon located at the top of the window.
Note: If you don’t see any Slide Show tab in yours, then you’re probably in Slide Master View. Just close this view by selecting “Slide Master” at the top and then you click “Close Master View.”
3. Slide Show tab in PowerPoint
4. In the Slide Show tab, click the button “Rehearse with Coach” to open PowerPoint’s Presenter Coach.
Slide Show Menu Items in PowerPoint
Your presentation will be opened in fullscreen mode. For you to make activate the Presenter Coach, just click “Start Rehearsing” located at the bottom-right corner of your window. Optionally, you can enable the “Show real-time feedback” that is if you want the coach to give you tips while you’re still doing your presenting.
Presenter Coach's Box in PowerPoint
Now, you can begin your presentation like you normally would. If you have enabled the real-time feedback option, you’ll notice that some tips appear in the bottom-right corner of your window.
Presenter Coach's Feedback In PowerPoint
Press the “Esc” when you have finished presenting to exit fullscreen mode. PowerPoint will now give you your rehearsal report.
Reading Your Rehearsal Report
It is advisable and very important to read and analyze the Presenter Coach’s report properly. This will help you to find your areas for improvement and see whether you’re doing well or not.
Note: As soon as you close the report window the report will vanish. To save the report, you'll need to take a screenshot of it.
IT Courses and Technical Certification
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