It is easy enough to sign into Google, go to Drive, and start a presentation. But what if you have several slide shows to present and toggle between?
Here is a solution using this platform, SBYou (you.stonybrook.edu) to access your Google Presentations. The goal is to use SB You as a table of contents of links to your slides BUT the slides must open in presentation mode.
Here is an example of a page or blog post on SBYOU that links to presentation-ready slides and allows you to toggle between them:
Clever and Productive Uses for Google Apps!
- Create Meetings that Everyone Can Attend (slides)
- Exploring Chrome Apps and Extensions (slides)
- My favorite extension Ginger (points to a specific slide in the above presentation)
- Are you Drowning in Email – Inbox Zero, a time management concept (slides)
How to recreate the example.
1. It is a good idea to house all of your slides into one Google Drive folder. Also, convert your PowerPoint sides if necessary to Google slides
2. Share each Google Slide show so that when you click on a link to it, you won’t have to stop and sign in while you are presenting your information to a live audience.
Share your Google Slides with “Anyone with the link” by right clicking on it in Drive > Share > Share (again) > Advanced > Change “Private – Only you can access” to “Anyone who has the link can view” > Done
3. Create your page or blog post in SBYou. Create a list or table of content that will link to your presentations.
4. You need a special URL from Google Slides so that each presentation opens in presentation mode–not in Edit mode.
To get this special link, open one of your presentations, click the down pointing arrow ▼ next to Present > Present in new window
Copy the URL in the new window:
To post it to your SBYou page, select text on your SBYou page and click the Insert/Edit link button:
Paste your special URL in the URL field and check off “Open Link in a new window.” Then click Add link:
And prior to your presentation test test test the links. You can always contact me to help you test and fine tune your SBYou site.
*Make sure you are completely signed out of SBYou and Google and try to access the site and links.