How to create Interactive
Learning Centres In PowerPoint

Interactive Learning Centres
A great way to direct students to the

websites you want them to use, is to
create hyperlinked interactive pages in
PowerPoint
 These can be organised in Curriculum
and or Group areas
Mathsgroups
Readinggroups/Individualised activity
pages/Subject specific

PowerPoint
Open

PowerPoint
Click on the

Title slide
Click on the

Design button
to choose a
coloured
background

Screen Capture
Type in the name of

your group or
Curriculum area
 Go to the Website you
want your students to link to
 Take a screen capture of the screen
by pressing down PrtSc button on
Keyboard (or Fn – PrtSc)

Screen
Capture
Open Paint by going to Start – All Programmes –Accessories

-Paint
Press Ctrl – V

Click on the Square – Selector tool

Click and drag around the part of the website you want to

use as a hyperlink

Copying and Pasting
Go back to PowerPoint

Press Ctrl – V to paste

onto your PowerPoint
page
Resize the picture by

clicking and dragging
on a corner
Go back to the website, copy the internet

address by pressing Ctrl - C

Hyperlinking
Go back to your PowerPoint

Click on the Picture so it is selected

Click on the Hyperlink button on the

toolbar
Press Ctrl – V

Click OK


Saving
The screen capture

will now be
hyperlinked
Repeat with more

website links
Save this PowerPoint twice!
Save as a PowerPoint presentation file so that you can add to it later
(Go to File- Save, name the file and save it to a folder).
Save as a PowerPoint Show so that when the
children click on the file it will open in full
interactive Slideshow view.
Go to File – Save As, click on PowerPoint Show