Original Repository: https://github.com/travitch/uw-beamer-template

This is a Beamer template set up to look pretty decent and have an University of Wisconsin-Madison theme. It is, of course, better than the existing Powerpoint templates.

The easiest way to install this theme is to just dump the *.sty files into the same directory as your tex source.

The theme options are follow:

• nav - This option includes a navigation bar in the lower-right corner of each slide
• white - This option changes the color scheme to black-on-white for projectors with poor color balance
• nologo - Suppress the crest in frame titles
• compactlogo - Compact title logo (takes less vertical space)

Other suggested packages:

• tikz (pgf, for diagrams)
• listings (for source code listings)
• fontspec (if using xetex)

Additionally, The template that can be used as a starting point of making presentation has been included.
This template is originally made by Overleaf.

Here is a very handy snippet of TeX to stick at the beginning of your presentation (after \begin{document}):

\newcommand*{\alphabet}{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}
\newlength{\highlightheight}
\newlength{\highlightdepth}
\newlength{\highlightmargin}
\setlength{\highlightmargin}{2pt}
\settoheight{\highlightheight}{\alphabet}
\settodepth{\highlightdepth}{\alphabet}
\addtolength{\highlightheight}{\highlightmargin}
\addtolength{\highlightdepth}{\highlightmargin}
\addtolength{\highlightheight}{\highlightdepth}
\newcommand*{\Highlight}{\rlap{\textcolor{HighlightBackground}{\rule[-\highlightdepth]{\linewidth}{\highlightheight}}}}

HighlightBackground is defined by the Wisconsin theme. This snippet allows you to include source code listings in the following way:

  \lstinputlisting[language=C,moredelim={**[il][\Highlight]{@}}]{file.c}

Note the moredelim option; with this option and the preceeding declarations, prefixing a line in file.c will highlight the line.