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PowerPoint: Course Dashboard

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NicoleLegault1
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7 years ago

Dashboards are a great way to display information pertaining to your course in a visually enticing way.

This dashboard example was created with PowerPoint. The menu items were created using simple shapes and text boxes. There are links to each lesson. It also displays important stats, course information, and links to additional resources that may be helpful to the learner. Simple fonts and bright colors add a punch of visual interest.

Use this PowerPoint template as a starting to point to create your own course dashboard! Include terminology, key concepts, links to important documentation, or more. Sky's the limit in terms of what you include!

View this project in action!

Published 7 years ago
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  • DianneBlake-7ce's avatar
    DianneBlake-7ce
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Hi Nicole, I've edited the PowerPoint you posted. It forces the learner to complete the lessons in order and then marks the completed lessons as complete. It also allows the learner to return to a lesson for review after it is complete, in any order.

    I would be glad to send the updated version to you. Just let me know. Thank you for the original PowerPoint that I could edit.
    • SoniaThomas's avatar
      SoniaThomas
      Community Member
      7 years ago
      Hi Dianne,
      I would love to see what you have created. I build most of my courses in PowerPoint first and in some cases only in PowerPoint.
    • NicoleLegault1's avatar
      NicoleLegault1
      Community Member
      7 years ago
      Very cool approach, Dianne! I understand the concept from your description, and that is a cool way to pull it off in PowerPoint. Hats off to you! :)
      • DianneBlake-7ce's avatar
        DianneBlake-7ce
        Community Member
        7 years ago
        Thank you Dianne Blake Sr. Learning & Development Consultant Conduent Learning Services
    • PeterVroom's avatar
      PeterVroom
      Community Member
      7 years ago
      I too would like to see a copy, thanks! peter.vroom@adelaide.edu.au
      • NicoleLegault1's avatar
        NicoleLegault1
        Community Member
        7 years ago
        Hi Dianne! If you post a new discussion in the community, you can upload your file there, and then simply share the link/URL to that discussion with anyone who asks for it, so you don't have to manually email it to everyone who asks. Hope this helps :)
  • DianneBlake-7ce's avatar
    DianneBlake-7ce
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Great idea! It would have been nice to make the 85% information be the percentage complete (just a thought).
    • NicoleLegault1's avatar
      NicoleLegault1
      Community Member
      7 years ago
      Thanks for the comment, Dianne! It would be hard to do that in PowerPoint because there's no way to really tell that slide how much of the course is complete, however that would be very possible with Articulate Storyline! :)
      • DianneBlake-7ce's avatar
        DianneBlake-7ce
        Community Member
        7 years ago
        Yes I was thinking that I would use the idea in Storyline.
        Dianne Blake
        Sr. Learning & Development Consultant
        Conduent Learning Services
  • DanWinter-c8eb5's avatar
    DanWinter-c8eb5
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    This is great! Especially for a course with non-linear navigation. Though for those which do take the learner through a series of slides, where might this be most effective? After the course title slide?
    • NicoleLegault1's avatar
      NicoleLegault1
      Community Member
      7 years ago
      Hi Dan ! Thanks for your comment. Yes, I think early on in the course is ideal placement for this slide since it does give you an overview of whats ahead.
  • DorothyHirata's avatar
    DorothyHirata
    Community Member
    7 years ago
    Thank you for sharing. Could you share how you were able to export your player settings that allowed you to remove all navigation settings with the exception of the "Previous" button setting when you clicked on the "Lessons"?
    • NicoleLegault1's avatar
      NicoleLegault1
      Community Member
      7 years ago
      Hi Dorothy! To do that you go into your Slide Properties under the Articulate tab in PowerPoint and you can adjust how your slide advances and which navigation buttons (Next and/or Prev) are available for each slide.
  • JamesSchultz-f6's avatar
    JamesSchultz-f6
    Community Member
    6 years ago
    I love this approach to a front page. I'm certainly going to try this in my next elearning build.