3 – PowerPoint

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PowerPoint is Microsoft’s versatile presentation tool

Website: microsoft.com/powerpoint

Rankings in the previous surveys: 

Comments on PowerPoint in 2025

“Easy and convenient way to develop useful visual aids” Nigel Turner, Senior Learning Consultant, UK, 2025

“Essential for creating engaging presentations, making learning interactive through visuals, animations, and structured content delivery.” Ramesh Kumar, Pakistani

“As an educator and presenter, PowerPoint is essential for creating structured and engaging presentations. Its visual features help simplify complex ideas and make content more accessible for students.” Dr Sana Iqbal, Research Assistant, Pakistan

“I appreciate PowerPoint for its robust features that allow for the creation of engaging and visually appealing presentations, which are vital for effective teaching and learning.” Jatender Lai, Clinical Instructor, Pakistan

“I like PowerPoint as a rapid storyboard canvas that lets me visualize layouts and interactions before I build in Storyline 360.” Jason Rajcok, Instructional Designer, USA

“PowerPoint remains that powerful tool for organizing your own thought processes and making them suitable for transferring knowledge.” Gert van Enk, Netherlands

“Even though I’m a huge fan of “training from the back of the room,” PowerPoint still earns a spot here. I use it sparingly in delivery but rely on it heavily for storyboarding concepts and ideas. Sometimes sketching out a flow in PPT is the fastest way to communicate an idea.” Susan Shoemark, Learning Consultant, New Zealand

Previous comments on PowerPoint

“PowerPoint presentations are one of the ways of delivering content in class, it has vast features and can make it attractive” 2024

“I use PowerPoint for instructor-led training, marketing presentations, and more. It’s much easier to create accessible presentations using PowerPoint than other tools like Canva. And there’s no need to sacrifice style. PowerPoint can create beautiful presentations and even documents.” 2024

” I use PowerPoint to storyboard courses.” 2024

“I don’t create many slideshows, but I use PowerPoint for creating graphics. If I don’t find what I’m looking for in the content library, I google to find ideas and then try to create something on my own in PPT.  I also use this to input graphics and save the whole slide as a .png so that all images are consistent throughout a course.” 2024

“Still the easiest method to make classroom trainings” 2024

“PPT is still a great tool, and I like the AI add-ons” Jeroen Smedeman, E-Learning Professional, Netherlands

“I like this tool to teach but I also like having students create Powerpoints to show their understanding of subject matter.” Holly Lang, Elementary Teacher, USA

“It’s the easiest way to make slides and also allows me to screen cast to create videos.” Digital Learning Manager, UK

“Especially in live online learning, I have started doing far more funky things with PowerPoint when delivering, including using it to set up templates for group annotation activities.” Freelance instructional designer, Australia

“It’s so versatile and can be used for much more that presentations, timelines, images, posters, banners, videos, etc” Anne-Marie Greenhill, Digital Literacies Officer, UK

“A powerful tool that create dynamic presentations with multimedia elements, animations, and slide transitions for impactful delivery.” Dr Colin Koh, Founder, coach and trainer of my consultancy firm, Singapore

“I love editing slides putting transitions and effects to make the presentation more presentable” Jerry Gamit, teacher, Philippines

“It is not dead ! 🙂 Still powerful when you use it ever day” Philippe, Marketing Manager, France, 2022

“PowerPoint has been adding a lot of new capabilities lately. Which, taken in combination with amazing enhancements like BrightSlide, make it an attractive tool for digital projects including motion graphics, videos, ebooks and more.” Mike Taylor, Learning Design & Technology Consultant, USA, 2022

” I develop quick’n’dirty slides for multiple teaching & communication purposes. It’s my default when I do not have the bandwidth to learn another app. I have my students use PPT to create infographics and e-booklets.” Karen Caldwell, University educator and consultant, Canada, 2022

“Unbelievably useful graphics tool, oh, and it can also be used to make slides for presentations.” Miriam de Jonge, Product lead for a global training product, USA, 2022

“What else is there to say about PowerPoint? Couldn’t do my job well without it.” Director of Performance and Development, USA, 2022

“When I am not creating eLearning, I use PPT to create training. I also sometimes use it to create visuals that are too complicated to create in Word. I find PPT to be a great way to communicate a message in a creative and engaging way.” Erin Clarke, Learning & Development Manager, USA, 2022

“I’m not sure this one needs much of an explanation. How many instructor-led training programs have you attended over the past five years that didn’t include some sort of PowerPoint slides?” Brian Washburn, CEO Endurance Learning, USA, 2022

“For all that it is a much maligned tool, PowerPoint is still a regular part of my toolbox. I use it to create mock-ups of elearning layouts and occasionally for basic image editing. I used it to create the presentations for my Build Your Branching Scenario course. As I regularly speak at conferences and online events, I also use PowerPoint to create slides for those sessions.” Christy Tucker, Learning Experience Design Consultant, USA, 2022

“PowerPoint has been adding a lot of new capabilities lately. Which, taken in combination with amazing enhancements like BrightSlide, make it an attractive tool for digital projects including motion graphics, videos, ebooks and more.” Mike Taylor, Consultant, USA, 2021

“PowerPoint reminds me of WordPress in some ways. It was meant for one thing at the very beginning but has become a quick and easy tool to generate design mockups, infographics, and so much more. I guarantee that most of the functions I use it for could be done better by another tool. But I can work fast in PowerPoint because I use it enough.” Tim Waxenfelter, USA, 2021

“Death by PowerPoint is always a risk, but it’s still a great tool to make things clear. We also are looking at Storytemple to integrate with PowerPoint” L&D, Netherlands, 2021

“It’s ubiquitous and great for nearly everything except tracking user input and working effectively online with all of its features.” Digital Learning Developer, UK, 2021

“It has so much features that once discovered make your life easier. My latest discovery was the selection pane and whyy did it take me so long to find it?!” Olga Anishenkova, eLearning Design Team Lead, Spain, 2021

“I may be the only person on my team who puts PowerPoint on their list. I still find myself opening good ol’ PowerPoint with regular frequency. I use PowerPoint most often as a tool to storyboard eLearning ideas (since Storyline is essentially fancy PowerPoint). I also occasionally find myself in front of virtual audiences and need to use PowerPoint creatively to engage learners.” Lauren Westcott, L&D Manager, USA, 2021

“For all that it is a much maligned tool, PowerPoint is still a regular part of my toolbox. I use it to create mock-ups of elearning layouts and occasionally for basic image editing. As I regularly speak at conferences and online events, I also use PowerPoint to create slides for those sessions.” Christy Tucker, USA, 2021

“Still the tried and true, but with all the new drawing tools, sometimes it’s just easier to make simple icons in PowerPoint vs. that other HUGE illustration program. It’s easy to use, and easy to create content, especially by others outside of L&D.” Kely McKeown, Senior Manager, Corporate Global Training and Systems, USA, 2021

“A versatile tool that can be used for many purposes, not just presentations. Image editing, print design and more.” Learning Technology Developer, USA, 2020

“For presentations but also for infographics” Sacha Bos, Project Coordinator, Netherlands, 2020

“I use PowerPoint not only to create presentations, but also to design graphics that I save and use in tools to create elearning modules. I see PowerPoint as an easy graphic design and photo editing tool.” Training Manager, Switzerland, 2020

“Increasingly, I am using Powerpoint not just to design workshops and lectures, but to create assignments for students.” Aaron Johannes, Instructor / Consultant / Researcher, Canada, 2020

“PowerPoint is another tried and tested tool for me. Beyond slide decks and presentations, I use it for graphics, print projects, videos and more. Microsoft has been adding tons of great updates and it just keeps getting better and better.” Mike Taylor, USA, 2020

“surprisingly versatile and realiabl. Transfers into Storyline seemlessly” Alnisha Simmons, Instructional designer/Lecturer/e-Learning Developer, Bermuda, 2020

“Powerpoint is a go-to tool for me to use for so many different tasks, such as saving screenshots as image files, creating nifty (and simple) graphics for use in eLearning, and it’s capability for video recording, etc.” Susan Manos, Global Learning & Development Director, USA, 2020

“While I’ve experimented with other services (especially Google Slides) I always find myself returning to PowerPoint because it’s an exceptional authoring environment. For me, it’s not just a place where I author presentations (though I do, a lot) it’s also the place where I create most of my graphics; the ‘insert shapes’ tool allows me to create pretty much anything I need, without the need for a separate application.” Stephen Downes, Canada, 2020

“When it comes to producing stuff (i.e. resources), I now believe in keeping things as simple as possible; I don’t over-engineer content. I find that I can quickly create effective content using basic tools like Word and PowerPoint. At the end of the day, the people I create the content for are adults and don’t need trivial or gratuitous “bells and whistles” to be encouraged to read the stuff – they just want the content.” Jane Hart, UK, 2020