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.

Because PowerPoint is often packaged with Windows machines, it is a common, low-barrier option for creating research posters. Unless you are working with a template, though, using PowerPoint in this way requires some setup. The video below, from the Graduate School and Libraries at Illinois State University, provides a succinct guide to your initial setup:

Note that 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, there are more videos from ISU that cover populating your poster with content:

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: