COMPUTER PROFICIENCY
Challenge Exam: PowerPoint Task
GUIDELINES
Using Microsoft PowerPoint, each student must be able
to:
- Create and modify a presentation file (given
the necessary information).
- Insert new slides of the
appropriate type;
- Add text as directed;
- Adjust background color, texture,
gradient and pattern;
- Adjust text color, font, size
and style for easy readability;
- Promote and demote
text entries;
- Apply animations to text entries;
- Apply slide transitions;
- Use action buttons;
- Add an image from the Internet
to a slide;
- Use the different views available, including
Slide, Slide Sorter, Outline and Slide Show;
- Adjust
the zoom level of the view as needed;
- Use the PrtScn
and Alt-PrtScn keys to copy a screen image and place
on a new slide;
- Print presentation in various ways including
slides, handouts, notes and outline.
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CRITERIA FOR PASSING
Students must be able to perform all PowerPoint functions with
no more than one “typographical or proofreading” error.
NO ERRORS
are allowed in the following “function” areas, including,
but not limited to: creating new slides of the appropriate type; entering text
in the appropriate area; setting background color, texture, gradient or pattern
for easy readability; promoting or demoting text entries; applying animations
to text entries; applying slide transitions; using action buttons, adding an
image from the Internet to the screen; using the different views available including
necessary zoom level; using PrtScn and Alt-PrtScn to copy a screen image and
place on a new slide; printing the presentation in various ways.
NO MORE THAN ONE ERROR is allowed in the
following areas, including,
but not limited to: spelling; capitalization; letter duplication; word substitution;
omitted or added words; punctuation; spacing between words; not using bold,
italics or underlining when indicated. Each occurrence of an error
counts as one error.
SAMPLE TEST LINKS
Sample
test instructions (PDF)
Sample
test solution (PDF)
guidelines
revised May 2005
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