I tend to do a couple of "long briefs" throughout the course - one on navigation, one on circuits. That's because my school does not give me enough time to thoroughly brief these subjects and fly them in one "slot". But with most exercises, I find that I can brief thoroughly (to contain the contents of both the long brief and the pre-flight brief) and then fly in the allocated time, so that's what I do.
My school also runs ground-school courses, which are done from a set of third-party slides. The skills in presenting this kind of course are very similar to the way you do long briefs on the FIC. (I wonder if the fact that I work from someone else's slides means I'm plagerising???)
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