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"Pre-booking" Projects and How They Work
What is a “pre-booking” project? A pre-booking is a normal task that is booked in advance by the client. The client provides a file arrival time (when you have to be available) and a given deadline. We create the project and you get allocated. You start working when the files arrive. How will I be paid for the time being "pre-booked"? You will get paid for the working hours we reserve you for, not for the time you are pre-booked for. Example: If you are “pre-booked” from 13:00 CET to
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Working with Google Slides
On Knowmore Platform we predominantly create PowerPoint slides, however clients are starting to regularly request projects from us in Google Slides. We have noticed that many of you are not comfortable working in Google slides. We have prepared a PowerPoint file to help you work on such projects. We hope this will let you be better prepared, and give you more confidence to apply to these new type of project. Please download the following file. There is a video embedded in it – you will not
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How to work on German language recreation slides
We work for clients from all over the world, and make the PowerPoint presentations in many different languages. German is one of the most common languages besides English that you may run into in the platform and we have put together some training material to help you work on such projects. The video linked below will walk you through the basics of what to pay attention to when working on recreation of texts and images in German. Please watch it. ${youtube}[Tricks and tools for Germa
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What is the length of projects you can work on?
Projects on KnowMore platform range from short to long Most of our projects are either under 1.4 hours or between 2 to 4 hours long. Clients also send us a fair amount of projects that are 1.4 to 2 hours and 4 to 6 hours long. Only 16% of all project are longer than 6 hours. On the below image you can see the distribution of project illustrated with a bar chart. Distribution of project lengths
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What are the most common types of projects you may work on?
Project types at KnowMore platform What is the distribution of different projects on KnowMore? There are many different kind of project types on KnowMore Platform. The most common kinds our clients require us to design are Brush-ups (45.1%) and Visual Enhancements (41.5%). Recreations (12.9%) take third place and Other (0.5%) comes in last. On the below image you can see the distribution illustrated with a pie chart. ![Distribution of pr
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Banning of Designers
Why can designers get banned from the platform? Working on the platform with the admins requires a certain level of mutual professionalism. In order to ensure we can enforce this, we have a process where we can Ban Designers from the platform. This ban can be indefinite or temporary depending on the designer's behavior. If the misconduct is so inherently unprofessional the designer may be banned forever, but most bans are temporary. In most cases you will be banned while being removed
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Project type: QQA ( Quick Quality Assurance ) - what makes them different
We know that amongst some of our clients, Quality Assurance matters less in comparison to speed on certain requests. Thus, roughly 20% of the time that is spent on Quality Assurance might not be adding sufficient value to the process for all requests. Our demand is currently quite large and since all tasks go through the same QA process, some tasks end up being delivered later than they could if the QA time is reduced. In order to be able to give our clients the option of choosing if they woul
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Working with Think-cell
What is Think-cell and why do we use it? Think-cell is a presentation software that integrates with PowerPoint to help visualize complex data using charts. Some of our clients use think-cell to create and edit their charts. This software offers different options than MS charts and therefore our clients use Think-cell because it allows them to work with charts faster and more efficiently. Think-cell is mostly used for charts but also for other elements such as Harvey balls or Agendas/Table of
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Project type: Light Brush-up
Light Brush Up involves fitting content to slide frame, fixing colours to client´s colour palette, putting text inside template placeholders, and fixing fonts and font sizes. It is a simplified Brush-Up.
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Think-cell training videos
This article is a collection of videos to help you learn the basics of Think-cell To learn what is Think-cell and if you can become a Think-cell designer read this article first. Think-cell basics How to create charts and basic chart settings Thinkcell basics: Think-cell ribbon group and Elements menu Inserting elements Resizing elements
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Project type: Recreation
Recreation tasks Recreation involves converting the input to editable PowerPoint text and shapes. As a standard Recreation contains Brush-up. Sometimes clients ask for Recreation + Visual enhancement. Therefore, always confirm with your admin if recreation should be only brushed up or also enhanced. Recreation training video: German recreations Quite often we receive German recreation tasks that have a more specific set of rules to fol
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Project types on KnowMore Platform
Find out what tasks our designers work at on the KnowMore platform and what are their characteristics:
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How to submit files correctly
There are a few different options for how to submit a file. See the example below: WIP (Work in Progress): WIP should be submitted in the following cases: When you do not have any hesitations but you want to share your file with the admin so they can see the progress on the file - it is very important that your admin is up-to-date on the status of your project. This way if you overlooked somethin
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