Features to Highlight

Your ePosters should go beyond the basic capabilities of a research poster by taking advantage of its online presentation. These general characteristics apply to whatever you design:

• Design your ePoster so that it can be stored on  [the company you have chosen]’s staff portal web servers, but remember that your ePoster should work on a public web server as well. We may want to share these posters outside the company.
• Take advantage of the digital presentation format by using color and visuals that will highlight your content.
• Be innovative! Your ePoster can be interactive, asking the audience to engage with the content.
• Create an ePoster that does not require you to be present. People will view these ePosters on their own. You won’t be nearby to guide them.
• Feel free to include photos, illustrations, video clips, audio recordings, and timed or audience-driven movement through your slides.
• Don’t use clipart or comical illustrations, as they look unprofessional. We want everyone to take these ePosters seriously.

Requirements

To ensure that your ePoster will work for everyone, meet these requirements:

• Compose your ePoster in PowerPoint or Google Slides. If you want to use something else, send a Canvas Inbox message to me.
• Create a presentation for a desktop or laptop computer (no need to worry about tablets or smartphones).
• Use approximately 6 to 10 slides for your presentation.
• Design your presentation in landscape orientation.
• Choose a san serif font in a size of 14 points or higher. People will view the slides at their desks, so the font does not need to be read from across the room.
• Ensure that your fonts and color/theme are consistent through the entire ePoster Presentation.
• Include any hyperlinks that you like. You can also use QR codes.
• Embed any media that is appropriate (e.g., short videos, images). Be sure your media is large enough to be seen and maintains the original aspect ratio.
• Set up a navigation system so that the audience can view all the slides easily.

Slide Organization

Highlight the IMRaD structure of the article that you are sharing. Generally speaking, you can use or adapt the organization below:

• Title Slide (include the article title and your name)
• Introduction (the I in IMRAD)
• Methods (the M)
• Results (the R)
• Discussion (the D)
• Sources (a bibliography that provides a full citations for the article and any outside sources you have not documented elsewhere)

You can use more than one slide for any of the sections. Choose the best structure for your article.