Displaying Documents in PowerPoint

This is in response to a good thread in Articulate’s Elearning Heroes community about “Creative Ways to Include Links”

Here are a few ways that I’ve incorporated documents and attachments in presentations / courses:

This document graphic is from one of Tom Kuhlmann’s blog posts.  In the post he shows how he built it along with providing a downloadable copy.

Plain Document:

I usually drop a screenshot of whatever document I ‘m referencing on top of this….which leads to something like this:

At the end of a course I’ve used multiple  smaller versions that are animated with each document rising out of a pocket which is then linked to the actual document.

Download the PowerPoint Template

If you’re interested here is a PowerPoint file containing these examples.

View the published demo

and an Articulate published demo.