About this design
Where the Syllabus style comes from, and what it signals.
Syllabus borrows the visual language of course management systems and gives it a distinct personality. The card-and-checklist structure is familiar to anyone who has used a learning platform, but here the cards are white on pale lavender-white #F8F8FC with just enough radius and shadow to feel considered.
Poppins handles headings in dark indigo ink #21213B, while DM Mono labels the structural elements: module numbers in 'MODULE 01' format, week chips reading 'WK 1' in mint #34D399 when done, amber #F59E0B when current, and soft indigo #EEEEFA otherwise. The completion donut uses indigo #4F46E5 as its stroke color, making progress visible without requiring a separate chart slide. An amber 2px border marks the active module across both card and timeline views.
Syllabus works for anything genuinely structured as a sequence of modules: onboarding, certification tracks, multi-week workshops, and course decks where progress tracking is part of the conversation.
Use it for
- Employee onboarding and ramp-to-productivity decks
- Multi-week course or bootcamp outlines
- Certification program progress reviews
- Learning and development team stakeholder updates
Skip it for
- Single-topic talks with no module structure to organize
- Executive summaries where the checklist format reads as unfinished
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation styled as a living course outline, the 'Syllabus' theme. Background: pale lavender white (#F8F8FC). Typography: 'Poppins', a friendly geometric sans, with 'DM Mono' for labels (both Google Fonts); bold headings in dark indigo ink (#21213B); module labels in small 'DM Mono' ('MODULE 01') in indigo (#4F46E5). Signature motifs: white module cards with 14px rounded corners, 1px #E4E4F4 borders and very soft shadows, each holding a lesson checklist; 18px rounded checkboxes, completed ones filled mint (#34D399) with a white check, open ones white with a 2px #E4E4F4 border; small rounded week chips reading 'WK 1' in 10px 'DM Mono', mint when done, amber (#F59E0B) when current, soft indigo fill (#EEEEFA) otherwise; a dotted #B9B9E6 connector line linking modules on timelines; an indigo donut completion ring labeled '64% complete' on stats slides. Mark the current module with a 2px amber border. Strictly avoid: sharp corners, dark backgrounds, gradients, photographs, more than three accent colors, decorative icons unrelated to coursework.
Use this theme for my slides. Ask me what the presentation is about first, then apply the theme to every slide.View this prompt and its data on GitHubHow to use this prompt
From copied text to a finished Syllabus deck in four moves.
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Copy the prompt
Use the copy button, or open it pre-filled in Claude or ChatGPT with one click from the panel on this page.
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Tell the AI your topic
The prompt instructs the AI to ask what your presentation is about first. A sentence or a pasted outline is enough.
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Generate and iterate
Ask for more slides or swap a layout. The avoid list at the end of the prompt keeps Syllabus on-style while the content changes.
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Or skip straight to a deck
SlideSpeak turns your topic or document into a finished Syllabus presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Syllabus slide design prompt in practice.
