Setting up a poster in PowerPoint
PowerPoint is a commonly used low-barrier option for creating research posters. Unless you are working with a template, though, using PowerPoint in this way requires some setup. The Graduate School and Libraries at Illinois State University have created the video below, which provides a succinct guide to setting up a poster in PowerPoint.
This initial setup needs to be done with a desktop version of PowerPoint, not the online version. Many of the options mentioned in the video are not available in the online version.
After initial setup, though, you should be able to use any version of PowerPoint to work on your poster. If you are looking for additional guidance in creating your poster, ISU has additional videos on populating your poster with content:
Kenyon PowerPoint poster templates
These are unofficial templates that use Kenyon's primary logotype by default; brand extensions (e.g., college- or program-specific logos) are available from the Kenyon Brand Guide:
4:3/Standard Poster Templates
16:9/Widescreen Poster Templates
Templates adapted from UNC Chapel Hill's Health Sciences Library research poster guide
PowerPoint access at Kenyon
PowerPoint is available to Kenyon users via its Virtual Computers, information on which can be found via the link below.
PowerPoint is also available on computers in Chalmers 330, the Digital Collaboration Studio, which is located on the 3rd floor and on the West Quad side of the building.
Though there are courses that use Chalmers 330 as their classroom, it is otherwise open for use.
#betterposter in PowerPoint
If you are interested in creating a poster using Mike Morrison's #betterposter model, a landscape and portrait template for use with PowerPoint is available via the Open Science Framework:
