How to Make Your Presentation More Interactive With Google Slides’ Presenter View

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Giving presentations can be nerve-wracking. You have to grab the audience’s attention and keep them engaged throughout your talk. This can be challenging, but Google Slides’ Presenter View offers features to make your presentations more interactive and fun.

Introduction

Presenter View in Google Slides allows presenters to view speaker notes and upcoming slides while the audience only sees the current slide. This behind-the-scenes sneak peek helps you prepare for each slide transition smoothly.

You can also use Presenter View to make your presentations more interactive by enabling live polls, quizzes, and Q&A sessions. This engages your audience, keeps them attentive, and makes public speaking less intimidating.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to making your Google Slides presentations more interactive with Presenter View.

Enable Presenter View

  1. Open your presentation in Google Slides.
  2. Click on the “Slideshow” drop-down menu in the top right.
  3. Select “Presenter View” from the menu. This will open your presentation in two windows.

The presentation window shows what your audience sees. The presenter window shows speaker notes, upcoming slides, a timer, and other controls.

Add Speaker Notes

  1. In the presenter window, click on “Speaker notes” to view notes for each slide.
  2. Add detailed notes to remind yourself what to say, data to cite, or questions to ask the audience.

Speaker notes keep your presentation organized and help you speak confidently.

Enable Live Polls

  1. In the presenter window, click the “Audience tools” icon that looks like a speech bubble.
  2. Select “Polls” and then “+ New poll” to create a multiple choice or open-ended poll.
  3. Launch the poll during your presentation when you want audience feedback.

Live polls give real-time insights into your audience’s perspectives.

Launch Interactive Quizzes

  1. Create a quiz by adding text boxes, multiple choice questions, or fill-in-the-blank slides.
  2. Launch the quiz slides during your presentation to test audience knowledge retention.
  3. Share the correct answers as you review the quiz together.

Quizzes make your talk educational, engaging and fun.

Moderate Q&A Sessions

  1. In the presenter window, open the “Audience tools” and select “Q&A” to allow audience questions.
  2. Visitors can submit questions which you can accept or reject during your talk.
  3. Answer relevant questions out loud or via text to encourage participation.

Q&A sessions make audiences feel heard and give you helpful feedback.

Conclusion

With interactive polls, quizzes and live Q&As enabled in Presenter View, your Google Slides presentations will be more engaging and memorable. The audience can participate while you control the activities behind the scenes.

Making your talks interactive takes practice, but it’s worth it. You’ll become more confident as a public speaker, and your audience will be far more attentive.

Try adding one interactive element at a time as you get used to Presenter View. Before long, you’ll be able to moderate exciting presentations that educate and entertain.

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