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PowerPoint and Prezi Tutorials: Home

About this guide

This guide contains tutorials for creating PowerPoint presentations. Follow the left-hand navigation for the specific tutorials that relate to your project.

Flash Studio

Looking to record your presentation? Use Flash Studio! Located on the 2nd floor of the University Library, the Flash Studio is an easy to use video recording studio for producing high-quality presentation and lecture recordings. Equipped with a high-definition video camera, microphone, and video light, the automated controls allow the user to record their presentation without any previous video production experience. Insert a USB flash drive into the desktop control panel, wait 15 seconds for everything to power up, push a button, and you’re on! The studio can be used with our without supporting visuals such as PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Keynote. When you’re done presenting simply press the stop button, wait a few seconds for the video to finish copying to your flash drive, and then remove it. The system powers down and your flash drive now contains a standard format video file of your presentation. The studio allows users of any experience level to create videos quick and easy, at the push of a button, and without having to know anything about lights and cameras.

(description copied from Flash Studio's homepage.)

For more information and to reserve a time to record, visit the Flash Studio webpage.

LinkedIn Learning tutorials

Students, faculty and staff at Kent State have free access to Lynda.com tutorials through LinkedIn Learning. Lynda.com contains a large collection of instructional videos on a variety of tools and software. For more information and to log in as a Kent State student, faculty or staff member visit training.kent.edu (or sign in directly to LinkedIn Learning).