Getting the Most from Your Presentations with GenAI
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Getting the Most from Your Presentations with GenAI
This course is part of Maximize Office Productivity with GenAI Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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In this course, you will use generative AI tools to help you develop business presentations.
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January 2026
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Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini™ have taken the world by storm. Business users have found numerous creative ways to use these tools to get their work done faster and more efficiently. This includes the development of business presentations. Whether you use Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Google Slides™, LibreOffice® Impress, or another application to produce your slides, GenAI tools can help you generate text and image content for your slides, as well as presenter notes and handouts. This is even possible using free online AI tools that don't require additional costs beyond your current investment in your office productivity software.
This course is designed for professionals in a variety of roles who currently use presentation software to accomplish business tasks, and who want to enhance their use of presentation software by leveraging freely available generative AI tools. In this course, you will: select and use generative AI tools to generate text content for presentation slides and handouts, generate images and design ideas you can use in a presentation, and generate presenter notes and handout content for use in a presentation. This course assumes the use of Microsoft PowerPoint for slideshow-related tasks, but other slideshow programs like Google Slides should be sufficient. You also need access to free accounts for major genAI services like ChatGPT and Gemini.
Most writers, at some point or another, have faced the problem of writer's block. You have to compose a letter, paper, speech, or a slide presentation, and are daunted with the task of what to write about or where to even begin. Now, with generative AI tools such as Copilot, Gemini™, and ChatGPT, you have an ever-ready team of creative partners to help get you started in the process of brainstorming, research, and writing.
What's included
8 plugins
8 plugins•Total 165 minutes
- Getting Started with This Course•15 minutes
- Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
- Brainstorm Presentation Ideas•30 minutes
- Use a Chatbot to Generate a Presentation•30 minutes
- Prepare AI-Generated Text for PowerPoint•30 minutes
- Import and Format AI-Generated Slide Content•30 minutes
- Mastery Builder: Using AI to Create a PowerPoint Presentation•20 minutes
- Lesson Summary•5 minutes
You've seen how creative generative AI tools can be with text. Now that you have the text for the presentation, you'll want to add images and formatting to help communicate ideas more effectively and to make your slides more visually attractive.
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5 plugins
5 plugins•Total 100 minutes
- Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
- Brainstorm Image and Design Ideas•30 minutes
- Writing Better Image Generation Prompts•30 minutes
- Mastery Builder: Using AI to Generate Slide Images and Formatting•20 minutes
- Lesson Summary•15 minutes
In many cases, a slide show with graphics and bulleted text is only a portion of what you need to create for a presentation. You also may need to create notes for the presenter and handout materials for participants. Generative AI can help you with these tasks as well.
What's included
5 plugins
5 plugins•Total 70 minutes
- Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
- Expand Slide Bullets into Paragraphs for Notes and Handouts•20 minutes
- Use Chatbot-Based Web Search to Find Additional Information Sources•20 minutes
- Mastery Builder: Using AI to Generate Presenter Notes•20 minutes
- New Plugin Item•5 minutes
You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
What's included
1 assignment1 plugin
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
- Course Assessment•15 minutes
1 plugin•Total 5 minutes
- Course Summary•5 minutes
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