ICDL Advanced Presentation case studies
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ICDL Advanced Presentation is an advanced-level certification intended for candidates who already work confidently with presentation software and want to demonstrate higher-order skills in planning, building, and delivering presentations. It suits office professionals, trainers, marketers, and students who regularly produce slide decks for business or academic audiences. Because the exam is an advanced module, it goes beyond simple slide entry: it typically covers structuring and designing a presentation for a target audience, creating and modifying slides and reusable content, working with charts, tables, and drawn or inserted graphical objects, and preparing and running a slide show, including output and delivery options. Preparation usually combines hands-on practice in a presentation application with review of the official ICDL syllabus for the module, so that every assessed skill area is rehearsed on real files rather than read about only. The ICDL Advanced Presentation case studies are 5 cases and about 1,546 words.
1The Overrunning Induction Deck
You are preparing a 15-minute induction presentation for 40 new starters. The venue has a fixed 4:3 projector at 1024x768 and no internet access.
323 words, about 2 min2The Chart That Misleads
A sales manager asks you to present quarterly revenue for four regions. The raw figures are Region A: 102, 104, 103, 105 (thousands).
334 words, about 2 min3The Table Nobody Can Read
You must put a 6-column, 9-row pricing table on one slide. Columns are Plan, Monthly price, Annual price, Seats included, Support tier, and Notes.
293 words, about 1 min4The Embedded Video That Won't Play
Your deck includes a 90-second product video embedded on slide 7, plus a hyperlink to a PDF on slide 12. You will present from a USB stick on an unfamiliar laptop connected to a projector.
311 words, about 2 min5The Handout Versus the Screen
You must deliver a 20-minute talk and also provide a handout. The screen deck is deliberately sparse: large images and one short line per slide, 18 slides.
285 words, about 1 min