With Poll Everywhere for MacOS you can insert activities directly into both PowerPoint and Keynote. From simple activities like Multiple choice and Word cloud, to and even, a few clicks will get you up and running.
You can also create new activities from within the app without having to leave your presentation and log into the website. Follow the steps below to get your presentation deck set up and begin interacting with your audience.
Step 1: Open a new or existing slide presentation in either PowerPoint or Keynote. Step 2: Open the Poll Everywhere for MacOS app (if you followed the steps in the, it can be found in your Applications folder). The Poll Everywhere icon appears in your doc when the application is running. Helpful tip: The Poll Everywhere for MacOS app opens in its own window, separate from PowerPoint or Keynote.
You will not see a Poll Everywhere tab in your presentation app. Step 3: If you are not already logged in, the Log in window will appear. Enter your Poll Everywhere account credentials and click Log in. Step 4: In the Poll Everywhere app window, select the activities you want to insert by clicking the checkboxes then tap the Insert button in the bottom right. After all the activities you selected have been inserted, slides with mockups of your activities appear in the deck. Each activity has its own slide.
This placeholder slide is indicated by blue marks in the corners that tell the system where to display your activity. (The Survey placeholder looks a bit different and you can find some further down in this article.) Helpful tip: The placeholder image is basically a screenshot of your activity at the moment you insert it into the presentation. If you edit your activity, you can update the image.
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On the Poll Everywhere tab click the Sync button. The placeholder image you are focused on will be updated. Step 5: Switch to Slide Show/Presentation mode to review your slides. Keynote: Click the Play button in the toolbar to enter Slide Show/Presentation mode. PowerPoint: Select the Slide Show tab, then click either Play from Start or Play from Current Slide. Alternately, you can also click the Play Slide Show button in the bottom right area of the PowerPoint window. Your activities will now load and activate from within your presentation.
Whichever question is displayed will be automatically activated and able to receive responses. Make sure the app is running, and that you are logged in as the poll owner.
The notes section for each activity slide contains the title and a link to your question that needs to stay intact for the activities to function correctly. Do not delete it.
You may add information to the notes below the link if needed. Activity slides can be dragged between slides or into other presentations, just like any normal Keynote or PowerPoint slide. Resizing the grey placeholder image will indicate where an activity should load on screen. When inserting a competition into your Keynote or PowerPoint presentation, the app will insert the competition welcome slide and a slide for each phase of every question (Question, Answers, Responses, and Leaderboard). For example, if you have a four question competition, the app will insert 17 slides: Four for each question and one title slide. Helpful tip: While you can drag and drop competitions slides to rearrange your questions, it is recommended you do this via the web before inserting them into your presentation. If you must adjust the order in your presentation (e.g.
Lack the time to adjust them on the web and reinsert the competition), be sure to keep all the phases for each question together and in the same order or things might get really confusing. The placeholder slide for a survey looks a little different. It still has the blue marks in the corners but the slide itself contains only the survey title and instructions to respond. Otherwise it’s blank. While presenting a survey, rather than showing responses to individual questions, the slide will update showing audience members progress through the survey. Please email if you run into any issues.
If you use at work or at home, keyboard shortcuts can be a great time saver. Here are some little-known keyboard shortcuts I’ve discovered over the last few years while working on the PowerPoint team. These keyboard shortcuts are designed for PowerPoint for Windows. If you are using PowerPoint for Mac, you can still use them if you replace Ctrl with CMD (⌘) unless stated otherwise.
I hope you find these keyboard shortcuts as useful as I have! Draw horizontal or vertical lines Press and hold the Shift key while inserting lines to make sure they are perfectly horizontal, vertical or at a 45-degree angle.
Keep objects in proportion Press and hold the Shift key while resizing shapes and other objects to keep their proportions consistent. This is handy if you want to resize a circle without accidentally turning it into an oval. Duplicate an object Adding a bunch of identical objects? Just select your object and press Ctrl+D to duplicate it.
This also works on slides. Copy and paste formatting If you want to format an object to look just like another object without reapplying all of the formatting by hand, use the formatting clipboard. Select the object whose formatting you want to copy and press Ctrl+Shift+C. Then, select the objects that you want to have the same formatting and press Ctrl+Shift+V to paste the formatting. This also works on the slide thumbnails if you have a slide background or theme that you want to copy from slide to slide. This keyboard shortcut makes use of the Format Painter feature, which also allows you to copy formatting from one shape to another. The keyboard shortcut is a good one to remember since it packs even more power—once you’ve copied the formatting, you can paste the formatting onto as many shapes as you like without having to copy it again.
Group and ungroup To group objects together, just select the objects and press Ctrl+G. To ungroup, select the object and press Ctrl+Shift +G. If you’re a Mac user, press CMD+Option+G to group and CMD+Option+Shift +G to ungroup. Insert a new slide Press Ctrl+M to insert a new slide after the currently selected slide. For PowerPoint for Mac, the keyboard shortcut is the same; you don’t need to substitute CMD. Zoom Press and hold the Ctrl key while using the mouse wheel to zoom in and out in the editor. On a touch device, you can pinch to zoom.
For PowerPoint for Mac, this is another one where you don’t have to substitute CMD. Center or align text To quickly center text, press Ctrl+E. Not happy with your centered text? To go back to left alignment, press Ctrl+L, or press Ctrl+R to right align the text. Clear formatting To remove all formatting from selected text, press Ctrl+Spacebar. This will reset the text back to the default formatting.
PowerPoint content placeholders have logic built in to make sure your text has the right size and formatting to match the rest of your presentation. If you’ve changed the formatting for some text or you have pasted in text that already had formatting on it, you can use the clear formatting shortcut to make the text match the design of the rest of your presentation again. To clear formatting on PowerPoint for Mac, simply click the Clear Formatting button on the Home tab. Start Slideshow Done editing and ready to present?
To start a Slideshow from the first slide, just press F5. If you want to start from the current slide, press Shift+F5 instead. As a bonus, here are a few more keyboard shortcuts you might have forgotten about. Happy editing! Action Windows Mac Select all Ctrl+A ⌘+A Bold Ctrl+B ⌘+B Copy Ctrl+C ⌘+C Paste Ctrl+V ⌘+V Undo Ctrl+Z ⌘+Z Redo Ctrl+Y ⌘+Y Save Ctrl+S ⌘+S New presentation Ctrl+N ⌘+N Find text Ctrl+F ⌘+F Check spelling F7 F7 —Lauren Janas, program manager for the PowerPoint team Categories.
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