I wanted to share with you all a slick way to use Web Page service items to present Google slides and Powerpoint from within Proclaim. Both Google slides and Powerpoint allow you to upload a presentation to their services. If you have a presentation that you'd like to present from Proclaim, but want to keep the animations and transitions, uploading it to one of these sites and using them within Proclaim is a nice option that I'm glad we can support.
Google Slides
In Chrome:
- Go to https://docs.google.com/presentation/ to view your presentatations.
- Click on the one you want to present in Proclaim and find the share button in the upper right corner.
- Change the sharing to "Anyone with a link can view" and copy the link.
In Proclaim:
- Add a Web Page service item to your presentation.
- Paste the link you copied from Googles slides into the url box.
- Change the end of the url from '/edit?usp=sharing' to '/present'
Now when you navigate to this slide, while onAir or in Preview, the web page will load your Google Slides presentation full screen.
Clicking on the slide itself will advance it and allow you to use your keyboard's arrow keys to advance the subsequent slides!
Once you are ready to move on in Proclaim, click the next arrow with your mouse and you are back to normal.
Similarly, with the PowerPoint web app:
In Chrome:
- Go to https://office.live.com/start/PowerPoint.aspx to view your presentatations.
- Click on the one you want to present in Proclaim and find the share button in the upper right corner.
- Click 'Get a link', select 'View' from the drop down, and copy it.
- Now paste the link back into your browser. This will take you to seemingly the same page, but this time you don't need to be logged in.
- Click start slide show and a new window will open.
- Copy the url of the page in the new window, this will be what you paste into Proclaim
In Proclaim:
- Add a Web Page service item to your presentation.
- Paste the link you copied from Powerpoint web app into the url box.
These may seem like a lot of steps, but once you know what you're doing it will be very quick to start presenting your online presentations.
Respond back if you get lost, or need help setting this up. We'd be glad to help.
Also, if this is something you find helpful, respond back as well. We have room to improve our support for these webpages (similar to our support for YouTube), and if you do want this feature, we can invest more time in this. Such as automating some of the above steps.
Thanks
