• First, to access Presenter View, click on the arrow next to "Slideshow" and select Presenter view. You will see there that this will give you the ability to have a Q&A function for the audience, along with allowing you to view your Speaker notes during the presentation.

• When you click on that, a new tab will open that shows a thumbnail of the slide you are on to the left along with a large panel on the right where you can toggle between Speaker Notes and Audience Tools. If you click back to your original tab, you will see that your presentation is now in slideshow mode. (Info below on how to project that to your board while viewing your notes or Q&A session.)

• If you have entered speaker notes in the area below your slideshow in the editing view, you will see them in the Speaker Notes section. As you navigate the slideshow (which you can do from this screen by clicking on the "next" slide to the left), the speaker notes will change to match the slide you're on.

• If you'd like to give you students/audience the ability to submit questions to you as you present, click on the Audience Tools tab. There, you will click the "Start New" button towards the bottom.  This will place a website URL on your presentation screen for your audience to use to submit questions to you. You can choose whether you want to only take questions from the Arrowhead Union High School domain of if you want to accept questions from anyone.

  • If you require the domain, students would need to be logged into their Arrowhead Google account, but there is a click-on option to ask the question anonymously. This could be a great tool for some of our quieter students.

• As questions come in, you will see them populate on your presenter screen.  You will see the person's name if they didn't submit anonymously. You can click on the Present button to push that question to your presentation screen if you'd like to discuss it, and then Hide to go back to your presentation.

  • You will also see a like and dislike count. Anyone who has the question asking screen open will also see a stream of the questions, and they can click on like or dislike, which will register on your screen. Maybe they can upvote something they also have a question on, or it could be used to poll the audience/class.

If you'd like to use this method in your classroom, here's how to set up your system to get your presentation on the big screen and your speaker notes/Q&A list on your laptop screen. (You may want to get it all set up ahead of time to save a little time, if possible.)

With your laptop connected to your dock:

• If your setup isn't already giving you two separate screens, hit the windows button + P and then choose "Extend". This should give you an open desktop on your monitor, which is what will project to the front board.

• Start your slideshow in presenter mode where it is on your laptop screen.

• Click back to your original slideshow tab and drag it to the monitor from the laptop. Once you drop it there, you can hit F11 to make it full screen and get rid of the browser around it.

• Now, you should be able to see your speaker notes and questions on the laptop screen while the presentation presents on your monitor and through your projector.

Let me know if you'd ever like some help getting set up to use this in class!