Students spend more time playing around with presentation software than you might think. Shouldn’t they be using that time on the material itself?
Imagine if there was presentation software that could give students and teachers what they want, while reducing time and energy spent on aspects of the task that don’t impact the final grade.
Imagine software that eliminated most of the design and technical knowledge while still producing a professional product — with a minimal learning curve.
Presentations are a key part of the academic world, and multimodal assignments are frequently assigned. In most cases, the teacher wants to know what the student knows and understands about the topic being presented. The knowledge of how to use the software and the design principles (i.e. their understanding of appropriate font size and color, image placement and size, white space, etc.) is rarely reflected in the criteria/rubric used to grade the presentation.…Read More