Creating visual aids with Microsoft Visio 2002

The tutorial provides tips for choosing appropriate templates for creating content, selecting and configuring shapes, adding shapes, indicating milestones, and adding formatting and graphics. It also shows you how to create a flowchart and suggests some not-so-obvious uses of Visio in the classroom.

The accompanying instructor presentation offers a guide to the tutorial, suitable for instructors leading a class or for self-paced learning.

Create a timeline for all of your school projects and instructional resources, using a Microsoft Visio template.

Add milestones to your timeline, and report to your faculty on all your accomplishments.

Format timeline information for easiest readability.

Add graphics and background images to your timeline to enhance the presentation and to give students visual aids to help them retain information.

Create a flowchart from a Visio template to easily establish workflow on a particular project, or to represent a difficult or confusing process.

Before you begin
Get acquainted with Visio and discover the main topics in the tutorial.

Touring Visio 2002
Become accustomed to the Visio user interface, and learn how to access its features.

Creating a timeline
Practice how to create a timeline by using Visio templates. Then, add, format, and delete objects.

Adding graphics to your timeline
Learn how to add pictures to Visio diagrams using Microsoft Clip Art.

Creating a flowchart
Illustrate long or confusing concepts or processes to your students with flowcharts. See how a flowchart is an ideal way to offer students compelling visual representations.

Taking it further
Enrich the classroom experience, and get ideas about how best to use Visio to teach concepts.