Presentation software provides several features to enhance slides and make them more impactful. It allows users to insert graphics like images, charts, graphs and videos to illustrate concepts. Users can also add interactive buttons and links to shift between slides in an organized manner. Presentations can also be connected to web resources by adding live URLs and saved as web pages. Additional support features include templates, printing handouts, setting timed presentations, and saving slides as PDFs to share. Overall, presentation software helps organize thoughts, enhance spoken information, and enables collaboration through group work.

1. PRESENTATION
SOFTWARE

2. Feature Categories/ General
Benefits
Presentation Software Features Description
Graphics and interactive
features make slides have
more impact utility.
Insert images, drawn figures,
charts, graphs, other products
created in other software
Allows adding of clip art or
images, shapes, callouts, lines
or other figures, charts and
graphs to heighten slide
appearance and illustrate
concepts.

3. Insert movies. Allows inserting of short videos
to support information besides
text and images.

4. Insert interactive buttons or
“hotspots”
Allows shifting or linking one
slide to other in a manageable
and organized manner.

5. Web features allow teachers
and students to connect slides
to internet resources.
Insert “live” URLs Allows user to click on text or
images and go automatically
to a website (Note: Web
browser must be active.)

6. Save presentations as web
pages
Allows presentations to be
displayed online.

7. Support features make the
program easier and more
flexible to use.
Use templates Allows user to make use of
presentation on each slide of
the presentation that would
match their needs.

8. Allows user to make use of
presentation on each slide of
the presentation that would
match their needs.
Presentations can be save das
PDFs to share to others the
presentation in read-only
format.

9. Print as handouts Presentations can be printed as
handouts with the desired
number of slides per page
which can be distributed to
enable the listeners to take
down notes during the
presentation.

10. Used time presentations Presentations can be displayed
automatically with play
narration and music timing
setting

11. The power of presentation software in
education
• Helps organize thinking of what the speaker
would like to say
• Enhances the impact of spoken information.
• Allows collaboration of presentations
through group work