1.1 – Introduction to AI Powered Presentations Lesson

Lesson Overview

Creating powerful presentations often takes significant time and effort. Traditional methods involve manual brainstorming, drafting content, designing layouts, and building slides from scratch. In this course, you’ll discover a new approach: using AI tools to streamline every major step. This lesson introduces the complete workflow you’ll learn—from generating ideas with ChatGPT, to turning raw data into clear charts, to incorporating AI-generated content directly into PowerPoint, and finally, enhancing those slides with Microsoft’s design tools.

You’ll also get introduced to Gamma, a tool designed to create full presentations through simple prompts or by importing existing outlines. This course is set up to help anyone who needs to quickly plan, design, or edit slides—whether you’re building pitch decks, sales presentations, or information briefings. The strategies and examples in this lesson are drawn from real business and creative use cases, showing how technology can simplify and speed up the process. As AI transforms more workflows, having these techniques builds practical skills you can use on projects right away.

Who This Is For

This lesson is designed for anyone interested in using AI to work smarter with presentations. It’s especially useful if you:

• Want to make better presentations faster
• Need to brainstorm or structure ideas quickly
• Build slide decks for work, school, or business proposals
• Are new to AI-powered tools
• Create content regularly and are looking for fresh methods
• Prefer practical, hands-on learning with step-by-step guidance

Where This Fits in a Workflow

Think of this lesson as your starting point when planning or refreshing your presentation workflow. Before writing a single slide, you’ll get familiar with tools that make each phase—brainstorming, content drafting, and slide design—more efficient. For example, you might use ChatGPT to outline a major project pitch and let Gamma turn that outline into ready-to-present slides. Or, you could go from raw sales data to a polished PowerPoint deck. This approach is useful whether you’re generating ideas from scratch or refining an existing deck, and introduces methods you’ll use repeatedly throughout projects.

Technical & Workflow Benefits

Previously, preparing presentations involved lots of manual effort: researching, outlining, writing, and slide formatting could eat up hours. AI streamlines these steps. Instead of coming up with topics alone, you’ll use ChatGPT to generate and focus ideas. Instead of handcrafting every slide, Gamma can turn a short prompt or outline into a full deck in seconds. Microsoft Designer further polishes your visuals with automated suggestions. These methods save time, help prevent errors, and improve the look and clarity of your presentations. For anyone preparing multiple decks or needing to react quickly to new tasks, the efficiency gained is substantial.

Practice Exercise

To get started, think of a presentation topic you might need—such as a project update, sales pitch, or educational session. Write down:

1. The subject of your proposed presentation
2. One goal you want your presentation to achieve
3. Which part of your current workflow (topic selection, outlining, design) feels slow or challenging

Compare how you normally begin presentations to what you learn about AI-assisted creation in this lesson. How do you think AI could help you save time or add quality to your process?

Course Context Recap

This introduction sets the scene for the rest of the AI-Powered Presentations course. Before this, you were given a broad overview of how the journey from idea to finished slides unfolds with AI. Now, you’ve seen how the main tools—ChatGPT, PowerPoint, and Gamma—will fit into your process. Up next, you’ll dive deeper into using ChatGPT for idea generation and learn how to create strong presentation outlines with smart prompts. To continue building your skills, follow the next lesson and unlock more ways to work with AI for your presentations.