Accept & Present Student Questions During Your Google Slide Presentation!
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Accept & Present Student Questions During Your Google Slide Presentation! Teachers can start a live Q&A session with a class during a presentation with Google Slides. Students can present questions at any time and ask from any device. Simply start with one of your Google Slides presentation and follow the directions below. Remember, if you have a presentation in PowerPoint, upload to Google Drive after clicking the “convert” button in Settings. Need additional help? See Mary Ann Start a Q&A session 1. Open a presentation in Google Slides. 2. At the top, next to "Present," click the Down arrow 3. Click Presenter View. 4. In the new window, click Audience tools. To start a new session, click Start new. You will be presented with an url. Example: goo.gl/slides/a1b. This is a short Google url but Marc has unblocked these. You can embed the url in Classroom. To resume a recent session, click Continue recent. This way you do not have to create a new code for every class but the previous questions will be displayed. 5. To stop accepting questions, click the on/off switch in the Q&A window. In "Presenter view" window, click Audience tools and change "Accepting questions from…" Note: You can choose who can see the presentation and ask questions. You may want to go with Green Local School so even if a student posts anonymously (to other students), you’ll have their user login and know who may need help with what. Show questions from the audience Presenters can display audience questions during your presentation. 1. Under "Audience Tools," find a question you'd like to display. 2. Click Present. 3. To change the question, find a different question and click Present. To stop showing the question, click Hide. This is not a perfect view. For the presenter to view the questions, he/she will have Present to toggle back and forth. For the questions to be inserted into s slide, you hit Present View as mentioned above. One annoying feature is to have both the questions and slides up, the question covers half the slide presentation. Observing Brandi using it in her classroom, after so many slides, she stopped and reviewed with the questions asked. Review recent sessions Presenters can see questions from recent Q&A sessions. 1. Open a presentation in Slides. 2. At the top, click Tools Q&A history. 3. Recent sessions will appear on the right. Ask and vote on questions Students can ask questions during a presentation: 1. Go to the link at the top of the presentation. Click Ask a question… and type a question. 2. To ask an anonymous question, check the box by "Ask anonymously." 3. Click Submit. Vote on questions Audience members can vote on the questions they would like answered. 1. Go to the Q&A link shown on the slide. 2. Below the question you'd like to vote on, click or . You may want to practice this first to get comfortable. Use a few of your students as “guinea pigs” to see how it works. .