If you’re on a Mac, you might ask “what about Keynote?” and that’s a fair question. Remember, a best practice with Zoom and similar tools is to have your presentation started and already on its first slide before you start sharing, which is much easier with this configuration! WHAT ABOUT APPLE KEYNOTE? Click on “ OK” then play your slideshow to see how different it all looks. Click and choose “ Browsed by an individual (window)“… It’s the first section you want to focus on. That’s where you can change your presentation output format, logically enough. What you’ve probably never noticed is the button labelled “ Set Up Slide Show“. In fact, let’s start with the Mac because, well, why not? Here’s the Microsoft PowerPoint toolbar (I know, Microsoft calls it a “ribbon”) when I have chosen “ Slide Show“: Once you realize this, it turns out that this feature is available in most all presentation programs, and it’s on PowerPoint for Windows and for the Mac system too. It’s quite a revelation if you’ve been doing it the old “full screen” way for months or years!

You can even watch the chat room while you’re presenting.

This means that you can have your PowerPoint slides in a window and have all your Zoom windows, toolbars and controls visible at the same time. Lots of people have someone else “monitor the chat” or similar, but that’s unnecessary because you can have your PowerPoint presentation in a window, while your students or participants see it full screen! Perfect. There are, however, a lot of disadvantages, including having all your control toolbars and windows vanish. Since video conferencing programs like Zoom and Microsoft Team have the ability to share a single window on your computer, there’s really no reason – or benefit – to having it switch to full screen in that environment.

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