Student Presentation Template

About this template

When fourteen slides is the right size

The longest education layout: four divider-and-body pairs plus cover, agenda, a getting-ready-versus-the-day comparison, key metrics, trend bars and closing. It fits group assignments or end-of-term reports that run ten minutes across three or four sub-topics. The cover carries a description line and a “2026. Presenter name / Affiliation” presenter line; replace both with your team name and the presentation date. For a five-minute talk, delete one whole divider-and-body pair.

The four sections already follow the research flow

The dividers pair a “SECTION 01” to “SECTION 04” label with a separate title line: “Choosing a topic”, “Research”, “What we found” and “What we think”. Because that is the order of the assignment itself, most teams can keep the names and only fill in content. Each body slide is one lead line plus three items: candidate questions and narrowing the scope on slide 4 (“Three questions we were curious about”, “Narrowing it to something we can research”, “Writing down who does what”); “Three library books and one paper” and “42 survey responses collected” on slide 6; “Top three answers by share” and “Mark the results that surprised us” on slide 8; “The result in one sentence”, “Write down the opposing view too” and “What we still want to find out” on slide 10.

Ten-minute timing

1. Slides 1-2, cover and agenda – 40 seconds
2. Slides 3-4, section 01 divider and body – 1 min 30
3. Slides 5-10, sections 02 to 04 – 4 min 30
4. Slide 11, “Getting ready and the day itself” – 1 min
5. Slides 12-13, key metrics and trend bars – 1 min 30
6. Slide 14, closing – 20 seconds

Divider slides carry only a number and a section title – hold them for two seconds in silence, or everything after runs late.

Writing the three bullets

Findings need numbers inside the sentence. As slide 8 itself says, “Leave the numbers exactly as they are”.

• Example: “we ran a survey” becomes 128 students in the same year group surveyed, 103 returned (80.5%).
• Example: “many found it inconvenient” becomes 71 of 103 ranked lunch queue time as the top problem.
• Example: “improvement is needed” becomes adding a third serving counter cuts average waiting from 12 to 8 minutes.

Slide 11 is a left-right comparison: the “Getting ready” column lists “Check three or more separate sources”, “Read the script aloud twice” and “Prepare five likely questions”; the “On the day” column lists “Say the conclusion in sentence one”, “One message per slide” and “Hear the whole question first”. Use it as a checklist or repurpose it as a before-and-after of your research.

The four cards on slide 12 pair “8 min” with presentation time, “42” with survey responses, “4” with members per group and “3” with books used, so they measure the scale of your work. Change only the numbers – and keep the survey count and the book count identical to the items on slide 6. The bars on slide 13 read “Topic set” 12, “Research” 38, “Organizing” 66 and “Rehearsing” 94, so they are progress by preparation stage; to use weekly data instead, edit the labels and the bar heights together. Slide 14 holds two lines only, “Sharing the answer we found” and “Thank you”.

Common mistakes

• Pasting whole paragraphs – the text box is sized for one line and shrinks the font until the back row cannot read it.
• Renaming sections but leaving the agenda untouched. The agenda has seven lines, 01 to 07, and only the first four match dividers; edit those four alongside.
• Saving all citations for the end; slide 14 has no source field, so put them under the slide that quotes them.
• Deleting a section pair without renumbering the dividers – the numbers are plain text inside shapes and will skip to 02, 04.