📊 Presentations: PowerPoint & Google Slides · Lesson 4 of 7

Animations and transitions

Transitions between slides, bullets one by one, and moderation.

Transition or animation?

Transition	How one slide changes to the next (fade, push…)
Animation	How one thing on a slide appears, moves or disappears

Adding a transition

PowerPoint: the Transitions tab, pick one, then “Apply To All”. Google Slides: Slide > Transition, pick one, and “Apply to all slides”. A soft “Fade” is almost always the right choice.

Bullets one by one

Select the text box with the bullet points
PowerPoint: Animations > “Appear” or “Fade”. Google Slides: Insert > Animation
Set it to appear “By paragraph” (Google: “By paragraph” checkbox)
Now each bullet appears when you click — the class listens to one point at a time

Moderation

Spinning, bouncing text with sound effects distracts from what you are saying. Use one kind of transition for all slides and animations only where they help explain, for example showing steps one by one.

Tip

💡 Practice with the animations: you need to know how many clicks each slide has, so you don’t skip a point.

✏️ Practice: your turn

Add a “Fade” transition to all slides
Make the bullets on one slide appear one at a time
Remove any animation that doesn’t help explain
Run the presentation from the start and count the clicks

🧠 Quick quiz

Answer all 4 questions correctly to mark this lesson as done.

1. What is a transition?

2. Why show bullets one at a time?

3. Which transition is almost always a safe choice?

4. What is the main problem with lots of animations?

0 of 4 correct

✨ Animations and transitions