Assignment Dates

• Due Date: By 11:59 PM on Friday, March 3, 2023.
• Grace Period: Ends at 11:59 PM on Friday, April 28, 2023.

What I Want You to Do

Watch the LinkedIn Learning video to learn about how to design your slides effectively. The video will tell you about layout and design, including choosing colors, fonts, and images. The full course lasts just short of an hour. The video is FREE with your Virginia Tech login.

Why I Want You to Do It

This video course has received many positive comments from students in the past, so I know that you can learn something that will help as you design the slides for your Pitch Presentation.

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Relevant Course Objectives

• Analyze the rhetorical situation and determine the appropriate audience or users of written communication, considering the needs of global audiences and people with disabilities. [CLO 1]
• Prepare to conduct research appropriate to workplace problem solving, such as literature review, evaluation of online resources, interview, and site inspection. [CLO 2]
• Consider the ethical and human implications of my situation. [CLO 3]
• Use conventions of various workplace genres, such as proposals, instructions, correspondence, reports, and slide decks, with understanding of how the genre conventions can be used as heuristics and as principles of arrangement. [CLO 4]
• Collaborate with classmates in planning, researching, writing, revising, and presenting information. [CLO 5]

How You Do It

1. Watch the complete LinkedIn Learning course Designing a Presentation (56m). The video is free with your VT login. Follow these instructions to login. If you need additional help, contact 4Help.
   
   
2. Once you finish the course, download the Certificate of Completion and upload the file to this assignment. If you need help, check the LinkedIn Learning help file View and Download Learning Certificates of Completion.

How to Find Feedback After Your Submit Your Work

Work is always marked as either 1 for Complete or 0 for Incomplete:

• I will mark this activity Complete in Canvas Grades, usually within 24–48 hours after the end of the grace period.
• I will mark this activity Incomplete in Canvas Grades if you do not submit your certificate by the end of the grace period.