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ECDL Advanced AM6 Courseware
Syllabus 2.0
The European Computer Driving Licence

PRESENTATION PLANNING

AUDIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

• The impact on planning of a presentation played by audience demography and subject knowledge
• The impact of the physical venue in the planning a presentation

DESIGN, CONTENT AND LAYOUT

• Issues relating to presentation timing
• The importance of relevant graphics, diagrams and charts in conveying ideas within a presentation
• The importance of limiting the level of detail within a presentation
• The importance of using a consistent design scheme and adequate colour contrast.
• Accessibility considerations when designing a presentation

SLIDE MASTERS AND TEMPLATES

SLIDE MASTERS

• Inserting a new slide master
• Inserting a new title master
• Editing the slide master layout to change the font.
• Editing the slide master layout to change the bulleted list format.
• Editing the slide master layout to change the background colour and fill effects
• Editing the slide master layout to change the placeholder position.
• Editing the slide master layout to remove the placeholder.
• Applying a custom slide master to specified slides.

TEMPLATES

• Creating a new template or theme.
• Modifying a template or theme.

GRAPHICAL OBJECTS

FORMATTING DRAWN OBJECTS

• Applying background fill effects to a drawn object.
• Applying a transparency effect to a drawn object.
• Applying a 3-D effect and settings to a drawn object.
• Picking up a style from a drawn object and applying it to another drawn object.
• Changing the default formatting for new drawn objects.

FORMATTING PICTURES & IMAGES

• Adjusting the brightness and contrast of an image.
• Displaying a picture or image in greyscale format
• Displaying a picture or image in 'black and white' format
• Displaying a picture or image in 'washout' format
• Changing the colours within a picture
• Restoring the original colours within a picture

HANDLING GRAPHICAL OBJECTS

• Displaying and hiding the ruler
• Displaying and hiding the grid
• Displaying and hiding guides
• Moving guides
• Turning on, off snap objects to grid
• Positioning a graphical object on a slide using specified horizontal and vertical co-ordinates
• Distributing selected graphical objects horizontally relative to a slide.
• Distributing selected graphical objects vertically relative to a slide.
• Coping a graphical object.
• Proportionately rescaling a graphical object.
• Disproportionately rescaling a graphical object.
• Converting a picture to a drawn object and editing the drawn object.
• Saving a graphical object as a file format such a bmp
• Saving a graphical object as a file format such as gif
• Saving a graphical object as a file format such as jpeg
• Saving a graphical object as a file format such as png
• Omitting or displaying background graphics on a single slide.
• Omitting or displaying background graphics on specified slides.
• Omitting or displaying background graphics on all slides.

CHARTS AND DIAGRAMS

USING CHARTS

• Formatting the chart title
• Formatting the chart legend
• Formatting chart data labels
• Formatting chart axes labels
• Changing the chart type for a defined data series.
  Changing the gap or overlap between columns with in a chart.
• Changing the gap or overlap between bars within a chart.
• Formatting columns to display an image
• Formatting bars to display an image
• Formatting the plot area, to display an image
• Formatting the chart area to display an image
• Changing scale of value axis: minimum, maximum number to display, major interval between plotted numbers in a chart.

USING DIAGRAMS

• Creating a diagram such as a flowchart
• Creating a diagram such as a cycle
• Creating a diagram such as a pyramid
• Adding shapes within a diagram.
• Moving shapes within a diagram.
• Deleting shapes within a diagram.
• Adding connectors to a flowchart.
• Changing connectors within a flowchart.
• Deleting connectors within a flowchart.

MULTIMEDIA

MOVIES AND SOUND

• Inserting movies to play automatically
• Inserting movies to play on mouse click.
• Inserting sounds to play automatically
• Inserting sounds to play on mouse click

ANIMATION

• Changing custom animation effects and settings
• Changing sequence of custom animations in a slide.
• Applying automatic settings so that bulleted points will dim to a specified colour after animation.
• Animating chart elements by series.
• Animating chart elements by category.
• Animating chart elements by elements in series.
• Animating / do not animate the chart grid and chart legend.

ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY

LINKING AND EMBEDDING

• Inserting a hyperlink
• Editing a hyperlink
• Removing a hyperlink
• Inserting an action button
• Modifying settings to navigate to a specified slide
• Modifying settings to navigate to a custom show
• Modifying settings to navigate to a file
• Modifying settings to navigate to a URL
• Linking data into a slide and display as an icon object
• Updating a link
• Breaking a link
• Inserting an image from a file with a link to that file.
• Embedding data into a slide and displaying it as an object.
• Editing embedded data.
• Deleting embedded data.

IMPORTING AND EXPORTING

• Merging slide(s) into an existing presentation.
• Merging a complete presentation into an existing presentation.
• Merging a word-processed outline into an existing presentation.
• Saving a specified slide as a file format such as gif
• Saving a specified slide as a file format such as jpeg
• Saving a specified slide as a file format such as bmp.

MANAGING PRESENTATIONS

CUSTOM SHOWS

• Creating a named custom slide show
• Showing a named custom slide show
• Copying a custom slide show
• Editing a custom slide show
• Deleting a custom slide show

SLIDE SHOW SETTINGS

• Applying timings to slide transitions.
• Removing timings from slide transitions.
• Applying settings to a slide show so that it loops continuously when played
• Applying settings to a slide show so that it does not loop continuously when played.
• Applying settings so that slides advances manually.
• Applying settings so that slides advances using timings if present.
• Applying settings so that slide show is presented with animation,
• Applying settings so that slide show is presented without animation.

SLIDE SHOW CONTROL

• Adding pen annotations during a slide show.
• Erasing pen annotations during a slide show
• Displaying a black, white screen during a slide show
• Displaying a white screen during a slide show
• Pausing a slide show
• Restarting a slide show
• Ending a slide show