1.8 – Slide Suggestions Lesson

Lesson Overview

This lesson focuses on simplifying a key challenge for course creators: transforming your content into an effective slide deck. Many educators and trainers know that slides shouldn’t be text-heavy, but organizing the right information per slide and incorporating engaging visuals takes experience. By using ChatGPT with the right prompts, you can get targeted suggestions on how to structure your slides based on either a full script or a course outline.
You’ll see how to prompt ChatGPT to “act as an expert slide designer,” then receive a custom breakdown of topics, sections, and key ideas—making it much easier for you to avoid clutter and stay focused on your learning goals. You’ll also discover how to ask for suggestions on which visuals to place on each slide, supporting both in-person and digital formats. This process is especially helpful if you aren’t confident in design principles or want to double-check that your approach lines up with best practices.

Slide suggestions powered by AI are valuable in live sessions, webinars, and asynchronous courses—wherever strong visuals contribute to the effectiveness of your teaching.

Who This Is For

If you want to transform written content into clear, effective course visuals, this lesson will be useful. Especially if you are:

• Instructors designing slides for new or updated courses
• Subject matter experts creating webinar presentations
• E-learning developers building interactive modules
• Coaches or consultants delivering workshops
• Freelance course creators seeking design support
• Team members responsible for training material organization

Where This Fits in a Workflow

You will likely use this process after you’ve finished your script or content outline, but before you begin building slides in a presentation tool. For example, if you just wrapped up your course outline for a TikTok marketing module, running it through ChatGPT lets you see a suggested breakdown: which content goes on which slide for clarity, and what visuals can strengthen each section.
This step bridges the gap between planning and slide design, so you can work more efficiently—either creating your deck directly or handing a clear plan to a designer. It pairs well with the scripting and outlining methods discussed in earlier lessons, supporting a smooth, thoughtful workflow for course development.

Technical & Workflow Benefits

Before using AI slide suggestions, many creators either overload slides with text or struggle with how to segment content. The manual approach means repeatedly revising and second-guessing your choices. ChatGPT can propose a cleaner, more logical structure with clear visual cues, quickly dividing your material into manageable slides and recommending fitting graphics or images.
For instance, in a live training, AI-generated suggestions can prevent too much information from landing on one slide, helping participants stay focused and engaged. In e-learning, tailored slide and visual recommendations streamline content creation and uphold best practices—even for those with limited design experience.

This method not only saves significant time, but also supports stronger, more consistent presentations that look and feel more professional.

Practice Exercise

Choose a short topic or lesson from your own course—or take any existing script or outline you have on hand.

1. Paste your script or outline into ChatGPT using one of these prompts:
   1. “Act as an expert slide designer. Suggest an effective slide presentation for the following script.”
   2. “Act as an expert slide designer. Suggest an effective slide presentation based on this outline.”
2. Review the suggested slides. Follow up with:
   1. “Great, now rewrite the above and include suggestions for the visuals to include on each slide.”
3. Compare these AI-generated slides and visual ideas to any previous manual layouts you’ve created.

Which approach delivers a clearer, more engaging structure for your learners?

Course Context Recap

This lesson is one of several in Generative AI for Course Creators focused on making your development process smoother and your content more effective. Previously, you explored how to turn scripts and outlines into actionable course materials. Next, you’ll continue to use AI-powered tools to further enhance your teaching resources.

If you’re working through the whole course, keep going to see how these steps build toward a complete, modern learning experience—or explore related lessons to round out your skills. Keep moving forward to bring your course vision to life.