3 useful Google Workspace Add-ons Made Just for Google Slides.

Why seek help from Google Workspace Add-ons when using Google slides?

Google Slides is a powerful and user-friendly tool for creating and presenting presentations, but it can be difficult to take full advantage of its features without the right tools. This is where Google Workspace Add-ons come in. These add-ons allow users to extend and customize their Google Slides experience to better suit their needs. With the right add-ons, users can simplify their workflows and easily create professional looking presentations. From adding 3D objects, to creating video backgrounds, and even inserting music to enhance visuals, these add-ons can elevate the presentation experience. With the help of these add-ons, users can easily create more impactful and engaging presentations that stand out from the rest.

1、Live poll maker for slides – creating live interactions and quizzes.

The main function: Enrich any occasion with live polls and live quizzes for Google slides, so audiences can find the joy of engagement, wherever you need it.

Live Polls allows you to create live polls in seconds and allows audiences to vote without logging in, and the initiator can start/pause the scene at any time. And hosters can easily download poll results for analysis.

-Multiple choice: You can easily insert picture options for voting to make voting more vivid.

– Open ended: The host only needs to give a question, the audience can express their opinions by scanning the code, and everyone’s ideas will be displayed on the big screen. This type is very suitable for collecting the audience’s ideas.

-Word Cloud-Simply ask a question, present it to your audience, and let them add words with their smartphone or other devices. Answers appear in real-time to build a dynamic Word Cloud. The bigger the word or emoji, the more people have submitted it, making it easy to spot the most popular answers.

-Live Quiz – You can make create your quiz with questions, choose the settings, then host it for your players. Your players will join the quiz on their phones and will answer each question as you present it.

1. Pick Answer: The audience chooses the answer from the several options you give, the faster you choose, the higher the score.

2. Type Answer: According to your question, the audience writes the answer in their minds. The earlier the answer is correct, the higher the score.

GETTING STARTED

(1) Install the “Live Polls for Slides” add-on.

(2) Open Google Slides, find “Live Poll Maker for Slides” in “Add-ons” and open it.

(3) Enter your poll question, options, and other settings in the sidebar according to your needs. Click Save to set up the poll.

(4) The icons and titles that have indexed the current poll path will be automatically inserted into the slideshow. You can simply click on the icon to jump to the poll page when you are presenting slideshows.

(5) Audiences can scan the QR code displayed on the webpage with their mobile phones to vote, and the voting results will be displayed on the screen in real-time.

Go ahead and try it, you’ll be surprised!

2、Video/Screen/Audio Recorder-It’s a useful tool to record voice, video, and screen and then easily insert them into Slides, Sheets, and Docs.

The main function: It’s a easy-to-use voice, screen, and video recorder online for free and automatically saves recorded audio/video to drive. Support Windows, macOS, and other clients.

– Voice Recorder: Record voice, and audio.

– Video recorder: record video, portrait, and camera recording.

– Screen recorder: suitable for recording courseware, tutorials, etc.

For Google Slides: Simplify the tedious steps of inserting custom audio and video into slides for you:

1. In the slides sidebar, select to record audio, video or screen as needed;

2. After the recording is completed, it will be automatically saved to your drive;

3. Insert the recorded file through “inset-audio/video” in the slide menu bar.

For sheets/documents: generate audio/video links that you can insert anywhere.

question and answer:

Q: Why is the opened sidebar blank?

A: This may be a problem with your network, which is a common problem with the Google Workspace plugin. Please try to open it again, try a few more times, usually 3-4 times to open it successfully.

If you have any questions during use, please provide relevant screenshots/screen recordings and email me: at vote@imgkits.com. I will solve it for you as soon as possible.

3、Slides to video: Save slides as video/GIF in one click.

The main function: The useful tool to convert slides presentation to video/GIF! Audio/voice Recorder and add to your exported presentations. Download speaker notes/image sequences.

Convert Google Slides to GIF images and MP4 video files. Add background music and voice narration to your exported presentations. Export Google Slides as PNG image sequences, download Speakers Notes from slides. Sync Google Slides with YouTube using Slidecasts

Unlike Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides doesn’t offer a native option to save presentations as videos. Creator Studio adds new export capabilities to your Google Slides and you’ll be able to download your decks as animated GIFs, image sequences, and HD video (with audio).

Important: Please note that transitions effects, slide animations and embedded audio/video files are not available in the exported video due to limitations of the Google Slides API.

GIF Image

An infinite looping animated GIF image is created that is perfect for sharing inside email messages and blog posts. You can even make stop motion animations by keeping the time interval very low (say 0.2 seconds).

Image Sequence

Creator Studio will capture screenshots of each slide in your presentation and save it as a numbered PNG file in your Google Drive folder. Internally, it uses the Google Slides API to generate these thumbnail images.

MP4 Video

Like the GIF image, Creator Studio will produce an MP4 video file from your deck and you can also vary the time interval between slides.

Video with Audio

You can upload any audio file in MP3 or WAV format and it will play alongside the presentation. You can upload background music or even voice narration that will play in the background while the video is playing.

Speaker Notes

With Creator Studio, you can easily extract Speaker Notes from your Google Slides presentation. Go to the Addons menu inside Google Slides, choose Creator Studio, and select Speaker Notes from the menu.

Slidecasts

With Slidecasts, sync your video lectures on YouTube with PowerPoint presentations hosted on Google Slides. The video and presentation play side-by-side, and slides auto-advances in sync with the video.

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axy6JQTJUUA