- How to embed Google Slides during a live session (no agenda):
- How to add Google Slides to an agenda item (during a live session):
- How to add Google Slides to an agenda template (before a session starts):
- Google Slides particularities
You can use Google Slides to create beautiful presentations and showcase them to your participants in a live session.
How to embed Google Slides during a live session (no agenda):
- Press
Ctrl + K
/Command + K (iOS users)
or click on the Share button (bottom left corner). - If the slides have been previously used, type in their name in the input box. If not, type in “Google Slides”.
- Choose one of the recently used resources or click on Create Google Slides.
- Configure the new slides however you want.
- Confirm.
❌ To return to standard conference mode, hover over the button showing the name of your Google Slides (bottom left corner). Click Remove file.
Alternative: Click Alt + R
/Option + R (iOS users)
How to add Google Slides to an agenda item (during a live session):
If you have an agenda already embedded in the live meeting and you want to include a Google Slides, this is how you can do it:
- Press
Alt/Option + Z
or hover over the button named after your current agenda item (bottom left corner). - Click on Edit agenda (
Alt/Option + Z
). - Click on ➕ to add a new agenda item.
- Click on the Share button on the new agenda item.
- If the presentation has been previously used in Sessions, type in its name in the input box. If not, type in “Google Slides” or click on Embed a tool → Google Slides.
- Choose one of the recently used presentations or click on Open Google Slides.
- Click on Update agenda.
❌ To remove the slides you've attached to an agenda item, follow these steps:
- Press
Alt + Z
/Option + Z
or hover over the button named after your current agenda item (bottom left corner). - Click on Edit agenda (
Alt + Z
/Option + Z
). - Click on the ⊖ button next to the tool/file/link you want to remove.
How to add Google Slides to an agenda template (before a session starts):
- Go to Sessions Home → Tools.
- Click on New Google Slides.
- You’ll be prompted to create a new presentation.
- Go to Agendas (right sidebar in Home).
- Click on New agenda.
- Click on the Share button that's attributed to an agenda item.
- Type in “Google Slides”.
- Select the presentation from the list of recently used files.
- The Google Slides icon will appear on the left side of your agenda item, under time settings.
- Changes are automatically saved.
❌ To remove the tool, file or link from an agenda item, click on Remove tool or check that agenda item's box and then click on Remove tool.
Google Slides particularities
- Google Slides can only be embedded in Edit mode and not in Present mode due to Google’s limitation.
- If you want to present Google Slides, please download your deck and upload it to Sessions in Files.