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1. Communication: Students are given a prompt to assist in building a flipgrid.
2. Collaboration: Students work together to build a project.
3. Critical Thinking: Students peer-edit each other using the comment feature.

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1. Critical thinking: students use Google docs to write out an essay supporting a thesis.
2. Collaboration: Students get together out of class to peer edit essays for each other.
3. Communication: students use the comment feature to assist in fine-tuning an essay.

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1. Collaboration: Students get together to present a conversation in the target language.
2. Critical Thinking: Students listen to student-made podcasts and critique them.

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1. Critical Thinking: have students design a thesis and use slides to present their findings.
2. Collaboration: as part of a PBL teams work together to build a presentation.
3. Creativity: Students use online art to design a slide that showcases or represents a vocabulary word without using text.

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1. Collaboration: students come together to tell a story.
2. Critical thinking: students design a story to share via screencastify.
3. Community: students design and share a weekly video for parents that shares classroom activities.

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1. Collaboration: students build a board where they ask questions about upcoming vocabulary and how to use it.
2. Creativity: design a board around art that is featured for Dia de los Muertos.
3. Communication: set up a classroom community board where students can go to ask about assignments or upcoming exams.

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Screencastify-a Chrome extension that allows users to record, edit, and share HD screencasts. Customer support and sales teams can create videos such as demos, tutorials, and UX/UI tests within the Chrome browser. Videos can be shared with customers and audiences via YouTube, Google Drive, and more. Screencastify allows users to record different shots, including whole desktop screens, specific browser tabs, or by using the webcam only.

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Screencastify-a Chrome extension that allows users to record, edit, and share HD screencasts. Customer support and sales teams can create videos such as demos, tutorials, and UX/UI tests within the Chrome browser. Videos can be shared with customers and audiences via YouTube, Google Drive, and more. Screencastify allows users to record different shots, including whole desktop screens, specific browser tabs, or by using the webcam only.

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Screencastify is an easy screen recording tool that can be a helpful addition to a teacher's or student's digital arsenal.

This is most likely going to be used more by teachers as a way to record what is happening on screen, perhaps while adding a voiceover to guide students. As this is a simple extension it is very easy to install and use on multiple devices.

You will need a webcam to record your face, in a box-out, as well as the screen recording, but this is easily set up. Teachers can use this to create assignment guidance or teaching around digital documents, images, videos, and more -- for use in the classroom and beyond.

This is super simple to use and even offers editing, making it a viable option for students submitting assignments too.

If this is for you, also check out our Screencastify lesson plan for middle and high school to learn more.

What is Screencastify?

We have already answered what Screencastify is on a basic level. However, to provide more clarity, it is an extension that works using Google and, specifically, Chrome. That means it can, technically, record a video of anything going on within a Chrome browser window.

Except it does more. You can also use Screencastify to record your desktop, so recording something such as a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation is an option.

Yup, there's more. This platform will also allow you to record from a webcam. Thus, whatever you're doing on camera can be captured, showing your face in a small cut-out window as you talk through what's happening on screen.

What's new in Screencastify?

Screencastify added a helpful toolbar to the menu that keeps everything accessible but adds some more power to the process.

Beyond recording and editing you can now add extras such as using a pen to edit and an eraser to change, plus stickers and shape tools to add even more personality to projects.

You can now draw the attention of students to specifics by using fireworks animations, radiant effects, and more.

How to get started with Screencastify

To get started with Screencastify you'll need to download the extension from the Chrome Web Store while using the Chrome browser, and have it installed by selecting "Add to Chrome."

Once installed, you'll see the Screencastify icon in the top right of your Chrome browser next to the address bar. This is a right-pointing pink arrow with a white video camera icon within it.

Select this to get started or use the keyboard shortcut on PC Alt + Shift + S, and on a Mac, Option + Shift + S. More on useful keyboard shortcuts below.

How to use Screencastify

Once you've selected the Screencastify icon in the Chrome browser it will launch the app in a pop-up. This allows you to pick how you want to record from three options: Browser tab, Desktop, or Webcam.

Tabs are available to turn on a microphone and to embed a webcam if you want your image in the corner of the video over the top of the screen in use. Then hit record and you're up and running.

How to save videos with Screencastify

One of the great features of Screencastify offers is its easy way of recording and storing videos. When you end a recording you'll be taken to the Video Page, through which you're then able to edit, save, and share the recording.

You can also share to YouTube. On the Video Page in the Share options, simply select "Publish to YouTube" and you can connect to your account. Select the YouTube channel on which you want the video to appear, add privacy choices and a description, hit "Upload," and you're done.

You can also save to Google Drive, but more on that below.

One really nice option is the ability to link this to your Google Drive. By doing so, your recordings can be automatically saved to your Drive without having to do anything extra.

To do this, open the Screencastify Setup page, select the "Sign in with Google" icon, then select "Allow" to give camera, microphone, and drawing tools permissions, and then select "Allow" from the pop-up. Then each time you finish a recording, your video will be saved to a newly created folder in your Google Drive called "Screencastify."

Use drawings and annotations in videos with Screencastify

Screencastify allows you to draw on the screen to better clarify what you're talking about, such as within a browser tab. For example, you might have a map displayed and want to show a section or a route, which you can do using a virtual pen.

An option allows you to highlight your cursor, adding a bright circle around the icon. This can help students better see what you're drawing attention to as you move the cursor around the screen. It's a bit like a laser pointer on a real-world blackboard.

What are the best Screencastify keyboard shortcuts?

Here are all the Screencastify keyboard shortcuts you could want for both PC and Mac devices:

Open the extension: (PC) Alt + Shift + S (Mac) Option + Shift +S

Start / stop recording: (PC) Alt + Shift + R (Mac) Option + Shift + R

Pause / resume recording: (PC) Alt + Shift + P (Mac) Option Shift + P

Show / hide annotation toolbar: (PC) Alt + T (Mac) Option + T

Focus spotlight on mouse: (PC) Alt + F (Mac) Option + F

Highlight mouse clicks with red circle: (PC) Alt + K (Mac) Option + K

Pen tool: (PC) Alt + P (Mac) Option + P

Eraser: (PC) Alt + E (Mac) Option + E

Wipe screen clear: (PC) Alt + Z (Mac) Option + Z

Return to mouse cursor: (PC) Alt + M (Mac) Option + M

Hide mouse when not moving: (PC) Alt + H (Mac) Option + H

Toggle embedded webcam on/off in tabs: (PC) Alt + W (Mac) Option + W

Show / hide recording timer: (PC) Alt + C (Mac) Option + C

How much does Screencastify cost?

The free version of Screencastify provides many of the recording options you might need but there is a catch: Videos are limited in length, and editing is limited. That could be all you need, and in fact, is a good way to keep videos concise so students can stay focused. But if you're planning to do more, such as an entire lesson, you will need to pay.

In the Premium version, your unlimited recordings don't have that logo on the screen. More complex video-editing tools such as cropping, trimming, splitting and merging, to name just a few, are also available.

Pricing starts at $49 per year, per user. Or there are educator-specific plans that start from $29 per year.

For true unlimited access, however, it's $99 per year - or $49 with that educator discount - which includes as many teachers using the software as needed.

Screencastify best tips and tricks

Teach navigation
Use videos to help teach students how to navigate online resources such as databases so they can get access to more information in their own time.

Embed questions
Place questions in your videos to make sure students are listening, learning, and are able to grasp what you're presenting.

Use with Google
This system is made to work with Google Classroom or Google Drive, so you can easily share creations with students or groups, directly.

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Anchor.fm-is a lot like Instagram or Twitter in that it allows users to publish content to anyone who follows their feeds. But it doesn't allow photos or text to be posted. Anchor is all about your smart phone's microphone. The app lets users record up to two minutes of audio, then publish it. Users can reply to posts with their own audio messages.

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This past weekend, Austin, Texas was crawling with startup founders, reporters, marketers, and investors. The goal: to power network and to find The Next Big Thing.

South by Southwest is an annual conference that kicks off with four days of panels dedicated to interactive companies. It's been the launchpad for some now-large tech companies, including Microsoft-owned GroupMe, Twitter, and Foursquare.

Each year, one startup seems to steal the show and be all anyone can talk about. Last year, livestreaming apps Periscope and Meerkat had a lot of buzz. This year, the coveted spot went to an app that's just one month old, Anchor.

Anchor is a lot like Instagram or Twitter in that it allows users to publish content to anyone who follows their feeds. But it doesn't allow photos or text to be posted.

Instead, Anchor is all about your smart phone's microphone. The app lets users record up to two minutes of audio, then publish it. Users can reply to posts with their own audio messages. It's like SoundCloud, but nothing can be pre-recorded, and no recording can be longer than two minutes.

One of Anchor's cofounders, Michael Mignano, attended South by Southwest and sat down with Business Insider for an interview. Here's how he founded Anchor and how the new buzzy app works.

A new type of radio where you can talk back

Mignano and his cofounder Nir Zicherman met while working for Aviary, a New York-based photo-editing platform that was acquired by Adobe. There, Mignano worked for a man who'd one day be Anchor's pre-seed investor, Scott Belsky. Belsky is an early investor in Pinterest and Uber; the former Adobe executive is now a partner at venture capital firm, Benchmark.

"Nir and I really liked podcasts and talk radio and audio in general," Mignano said of Anchor's genesis. "We were talking about how - despite the fact that more and more people were consuming podcasts and podcasts were having this revolution - creating and distributing voice content was still very, very difficult."

Mignano had tried to start a podcast and found it hard to get the right quality and reach for his recordings. But smartphones theoretically could make audio recordings much easier because everyone had internet-connected microphones in their pockets.

Plus, Mignano wanted a way to create actual conversations, not podcasts with listeners who were powerless.

"Unlike traditional radio, Anchor is multi-directional," Mignano explained. "It's not a one-way broadcast. When you listen to the radio, there's no way to interact with it ... On Anchor, you can reply to everything you hear to start a real discussion."

Mignano and Zicherman got a few friends to start testing their idea. Last year, they signed up nearly 100 friends and family members to try Anchor in private beta. On February 9th, the app officially launched in the App Store. The startup has four people working for it and it has raised just under $2 million.

Creepy comments amplified or smart discussions?

At least four early stage investors we spoke with - two who are Anchor investors and two who are not - mentioned the up-and-coming app at South by Southwest unprompted. The non-Anchor investors weren't sure if the startup was a good idea or not.

One voiced concerns over whether or not an app with limited text could prove to be valuable. The only text allowed in Anchor is captions that describe the recordings. That makes it difficult to surface Anchor's content in keyword searches.

Additionally, the idea of chatting back and forth with anonymous strangers on the Internet doesn't sound all that fun or safe. If Anchor's community starts getting filled with trolls like many anonymous comment boards online are, it's not going to be very fun to listen to hate speech directed at you, read aloud in your ear.

For others who did invest, Anchor is tackling an obvious missing category in a sea of social platforms . There's a feed for photos (Instagram/Snapchat), there's a feed for text (Twitter), and there's a feed for videos (Periscope/Vine). So why not one for voice? And while no one we spoke with would offer up specific metrics, they all said engagement was through the roof.

How to launch a consumer app successfully in 2016

It's not easy to launch a consumer app now that many of the most popular ones, including Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram, have hundreds of millions of users. Mignano says Anchor's strategy has just been to focus on building a community.

"You can make the greatest app in the world with the most killer features. But at the end of the day it's about the people using it," he said. "From day 1 we've said we want to be super open and accessible with the community. We talk to people on Anchor pretty much all day every day. If I'm not coding or designing, you can pretty much find me on my phone talking to people on Anchor."

Additionally, the app has some share features and a website that helps spread "waves," the sound bites users create on the app, to other social media channels. Anchor also encourages its community to welcome new members after they make their first recording by following the hashtag "#firstwave."

Within a few minutes of making my first recording (a quick 2-minute interview with Mignano), I had a reply from a stranger.

"Sounds fun," a man's voice said. "I'm sitting here in bed. It's cold and I'm bored."

'Sounds fun. I'm sitting here in bed,' a man's voice said. 'It's cold and I'm bored.

Mignano cringed as I recited the message back.

"That's really weird," he admitted. "Not a great first wave experience for you."

But my creepy message aside, Mignano insists there are many other great experiences on Anchor, from people recording mini-standup comedies, to women singing lullabies. Others pretend to be characters. There's one man who pretends to be Jigsaw from the horror movie "Saw," but instead of making death threats he offers life advice. Another Anchor user pretends to be Yoda from Star Wars.

"You work on something for so long and you believe in it and you want people to enjoy it, but you never really know until you launch," Mignano said. "People are not only using Anchor the way we hoped they would, they're loving it."

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FlipGrid-is the video discussion tool from Microsoft that opens up the classroom.

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Flipgrid is a video discussion tool quite like no other as it's designed with the might of Microsoft to work specifically for teachers and students in a digital classroom.

The idea behind this education tool is to use video to create an open platform of discussion and learning that doesn't require a physical classroom to get everyone involved. That makes Flipgrid an ideal remote learning tool as well as a powerful homework based application for students to use with each other.

Flipgrid is designed to allow students to speak to the group but without the same fear that might constrict responses in a real-world situation. Students can re-record responses, removing the pressure of answering in class, on the spot. Of course, it's also a great tool for use when learning remotely.

So, in more detail, what is Flipgrid and how does it work in education?

What is Flipgrid?

At its most basic, Flipgrid is a video tool that allows teachers to post "Topics" that are essentially videos with some accompanying text. This is then shared with students, who can be prompted to respond.

The response can be made using the software's camera to create videos that are then posted to the original Topic. These videos can be recorded as many times as needed before uploading, and can have the addition of emoji, text, stickers, drawings, or custom stickers.

The service works online so it can be accessed via web browser from nearly any device, or through the app, making it good for laptops, tablets, smartphones, Chromebooks, and desktop computers. The only requirement on any of those devices is a camera and has enough processing power to back that up.

Flipgrid is free to use and can be accessed using a Microsoft or Google account.

What's Good About Flipgrid?

One of the best things about Flipgrid is the ability to interact using video, such as face-to-face in the real world, but without the pressure of a live classroom. Since students are given the space and time to respond when they're ready, it makes educational engagement possible for even more anxious students who might ordinarily feel left out in class.

The ability to add rich media encourages students to be creative and, potentially more importantly, expressive. By adding emoji, text, and stickers, students can engage with class content as they might interact with friends using social media platforms.

This aspect can help students feel less apprehensive and more empowered to express themselves openly, engaging more deeply with the task. Ultimately, that should result in deeper learning and better content recall.

On a software level, Flipgrid is great for integration. Since it works with Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, and Remind, it's easy for a teacher to integrate into the current virtual classroom setup.

How Does Flipgrid Work?

The process is pretty straightforward to get set up and start using Flipgrid. A teacher can simply go to Flipgrid to get signed up by using a Microsoft or Google account.

Then it's time to create your first Topic. Select "Add a Topic." Give it a title and you can post a video, such as a YouTube clip, right there. Optionally, add a "Prompt," which is text to describe what's going on and what you want in response.

Then add the emails of those students you want involved by adding a student username if they're not using email. This can be setup by adding a student and sending them the required link and code. Add an optional password, if needed.

Select "Create Topic" and then you are given a link to share with the option to copy as well as to quickly pick what platform you want to auto share to, including Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, and so on.

Students can then login and use the myjoincode to get into the Topic directly to watch the video and post their response. The video response then appears on the page below the original Topic Prompt. These can be commented on by other students, using text, but permissions can be set and controlled by the teacher as they see fit.

Flipgrid currently offers more than 25,000 lessons and activities, and more than 35,000 Topics, helping you to create new Topics or use existing ones quickly and easily.

Flipgrid Features

While Flipgrid keeps things minimal, making it easy to use, there are still plenty of useful settings that you can tweak. Get your offering just right and it can be tailored to get the best engagement possible with the class.

Here's some lingo guidance and tips to help you understand what's available to use.

Flipgrid Grids

A "Grid" is the term used by the Flipgrid community to describe a group of learners. In the case of a teacher, a Grid could be the class or a small group.

This is where you can create a custom Flip Code that is then used to share with anyone you want to enter into that group.

Flipgrid Topic Guests

Want to integrate more than your own Topics? It is possible to use Topic Guests, aka, Guest Mode, to allow others to input.

This is ideal if you want a specialist speaker, for example. Equally, this is a powerful option if you want to include guardians in the process, since this is online and that becomes a real possibility.

Flipgrid Shorts

This video tool allows teachers and students to create their videos for a custom finish rather than simply uploading a YouTube clip.

Users can upload and edit video, add more clips, cut, and segment as well as enhance with emojis, stickers, and text. Add arrows to a graph image as you talk over that section of the video, for example, as a great way to get in-depth information across.

Shorts is, essentially, a really simple-to-use video editing tool that can produce a powerful result, depending on how creative you want to be.

Flipgrid Video Moderation

One way to stay in control of the content submitted by students is to set the Video Moderation mode to on when you post a new Topic. In doing so, any video uploaded will not be posted until you have checked and approved it.

This is a useful tool when starting out, but once trust has built and you're confident, it's also good to have this setting off to save time on moderating. When it's off, students can also enjoy more freedom of expression in real-time.

You can always select individual videos to hide or delete at a later time.

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Google documents-browser-based word processor. You can create, edit, and share documents online and access them from any computer with an internet connection. There's even a mobile app for Android and iOS. What sets Google Docs apart from its main desktop competitor, Microsoft Word, are its collaborative features. Google Docs was one of the first word processors to offer shared online document editing.

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Google documents-browser-based word processor. You can create, edit, and share documents online and access them from any computer with an internet connection. There's even a mobile app for Android and iOS. What sets Google Docs apart from its main desktop competitor, Microsoft Word, are its collaborative features. Google Docs was one of the first word processors to offer shared online document editing.

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Google Docs is the word processor component of Google's online office suite. It's a free alternative to Microsoft Word. It also has more features than you might realize.

In this article, we'll answer the most commonly asked questions about Google Docs.

What Is Google Docs?

Google Docs is Google's browser-based word processor. You can create, edit, and share documents online and access them from any computer with an internet connection.

What sets Google Docs apart from its main desktop competitor, Microsoft Word, are its collaborative features. Google Docs was one of the first word processors to offer shared online document editing.

Google has made it incredibly easy to share documents across platforms and work on them together in real time from a browser window. Your collaborators don't even need a Google account to view or edit Google documents you share with them.

Moreover, Google Docs add-ons, let you expand the functionality and add missing features.

How to Use Google Docs

You can use Google Docs just like you would use Word documents. Create new documents, use Google Docs templates, share documents with your team and collaborate in real time. We'll show you the basics here.

How to Create a Google Doc

To make a new Google Doc, first head to docs.google.com and sign in with your Google account. Once you're on the Google Docs start page, you can create a blank new document or choose a template. From within an existing Google Doc, you can also go to File > New > Document or File > New > From template to do the same.

How to Save a Google Doc

You will never have to remember to save a Google document because Google automatically saves your documents to your Google Drive, the online storage component of Google's online office suite. Hence, you won't find a Save button.

How to Download Google Docs

Google stores your documents on Google Drive. To download a Google Doc to your computer instead, go to File > Download as and choose your desired file format.

How to Email a Google Doc

If you want to download the document because you want to email it, you can do that directly from the document. Go to File > Email as attachment, choose the file format you want to attach, and fill in the standard email details.

How to Share a Google Doc

Rather than emailing a document, however, we recommend sharing it. That's because sharing allows everyone to see and work on the same version of the document. This way you avoid creating conflicting copies or duplicating your work. As mentioned previously, the recipient does not need a Google account to view or edit the document.

To share a Google Doc from within the document, click the Share button in the top right. Now you have several options:

If you want to share a copy of your Google Doc with multiple collaborators because you don't want them to make edits to the original document, you can also use this "make a copy" trick to save yourself some work.

1. Click the Get shareable link in the top right. The link will be copied to your clipboard. and next to Anyone with the link, adjust the access level from the default can view to can edit or can comment. If you make changes, click Copy link to refresh the copy in your clipboard. Inside the same menu you can also turn off the link sharing option, meaning only specific people can access the document.

2. Enter the names or email address/es of the desired recipient/s. Note that the default access level with this method is can edit. Click the pen icon to the right to change this to can view or can comment.

3. Click Advanced in the bottom right to share directly to Gmail, Google Plus, Facebook, or Twitter, to control link sharing, to invite people, and to control owner settings, like preventing fellow editors from changing access and adding new people.

How to Track Changes in Google Docs

When you make frequent changes to your Google Docs or once you have shared it with others, you will want to track changes.

Version History

Google Docs does this automatically by tracking your document's version history. Go to File > Version History > See version history to expand a menu that lists all the changes Google has tracked for your document. You'll see when changes were made, who made them, and they're all highlighted in the document.

You can even name the current version to easily revert changes made afterward. Either go to File > Version History > Name current version, enter a name, and click Save. Alternatively, go to the version history menu and click on the date or name of a version to rename it. In the version history menu, you can then enable a setting to only show named versions (see screenshot above).

Version history is the basic form of tracking changes. You can restore a document versions by selecting it and clicking the Restore This Version button. What you can't do is accept or discard individual changes within each version. If that's the functionality you desire, you have to use a different feature: modes.

Suggestion Mode

Google Docs supports three different modes: Editing, Suggesting, and Viewing. Editing is the default mode. To switch to a different mode, go to View > Mode or click the pen icon in the far right of the tools menu. To control individual changes, use the Suggesting mode.

When you make changes in Suggesting mode, you'll see a comment on the right side of the document, with the option to accept or reject the suggestion. You can also write a reply to discuss each change. All changes made in this mode are tracked individually under the respective document version in the version history. This way, you have the option to review and restore rejected changes, though you'd have to restore that version of the document, meaning you'd lose all following changes.

Tip: To force your collaborators to use the Suggestion mode, set their access to can comment when sharing the document.

How to Print From Google Docs

Printing from Google Docs works just like printing any other document on your computer. To print a Google document, open the document, then either go to File > Print or press the Ctrl + P keyboard shortcut or click the print icon in the tools menu.

Each of these actions will open your print menu. From here, choose your printer and settings and print as you normally would.

How to Edit Google Docs Offline

To edit your Google Docs offline, you have to meet a few basic conditions. First, you have to be online while setting up offline access. You also need to use Google Chrome outside of incognito mode, install and enable the Google Docs Offline Chrome extension, and have enough free storage space to save your files.

Once this is done, head to docs.google.com, click the hamburger menu in the top right, go to Settings, and make sure the slider next to Offline is in the On position (see screenshot below).

Now, every document you start working on will also be available offline on your computer; at least temporarily. The flash icon next to the document name indicates that you're offline. Any changes you make will be synced once you reconnect to the internet.

With the Google Docs Offline extension enabled, you can review the list of all your documents under docs.google.com, even while offline. All documents permanently available offline will carry a checkmark icon. Click the three-dot-menu to control the Available offline option.

The Google Docs Offline extension will also cache all documents you open. Should you lose your internet connection, you'll have access even to those documents not explicitly available offline. In that case, you can permanently make the document available offline, even though you're not online. Meanwhile, those documents not cached and not available offline will appear muted.

To back up and sync Google Docs files to your computer or mobile, you can also use the Google Drive Backup and Sync tool.

Google Docs, Now Under Your Control

Now you know the basics of how to use Google Docs. Next it's time to discover neat ways to create beautiful Google documents. You can then move on to exploring features relevant for business documents and voice typing in Google Docs.

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What is Google Slides?

Google Slides is a presentation program provided by Google that allows you to create and display visual slides to accompany a presentation of your work. Google slides can be used to create professional presentations by combining various text effects, graphics, and multimedia content features.

Learning how to present slides increases your employability because it is one of the most useful presentation software. Google Slides is a presentation editor for Google Docs and Drive Productivity Suite. It is a type of collaborative software that offers real-time coordination and various options for exchanging presentations.

The main competitors of google slides are windows Powerpoint of Microsoft and Apply Keynotes of Apple.

Google slides is becoming extremely popular and you have to check its online version from here.

Platforms for Google Slides

Google Slides is similar to Microsoft PowerPoint and is available as an app for Android(2014 AD), iOS(2014 AD), Blackberry, and Windows, as a web application on the web, and as a desktop application on a desktop platform in Chrome OS. As a result, it is available in all major operating systems, from desktop to web to mobile.

Google Slides is a supported web application in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, and Brave. When creating slides, a brave browser has certain design and alignment issues when compared to others.

Purpose of Google Slides

The main purpose of google slides is to create presentations for expressing your ideas in the form of images, charts, text and animations and share the slides with others offline or online.

Google Slides Features

2 It has a variety of templates located on the right sidebar.

3 Create, arrange and customize, apply animation to your slides.

4 Share, add comments and replies to files. Currently, we can share via Gmail, Twitter, and Facebook.

5 It also has features of chatting with people directly.

6 Can print and download files in various formats.

7 Google Slides can access your calendar, notes, and tasks.

9 Supported file types: .jpg, .gslides,.odp,.pdf,.png,.pot,.potm,.potx,.pps,.ppsn,.ppsx, .ppt,.pptm,.svg, .txt

10 Compatible with Microsoft Powerpoint: We can save this file in ppt format and then open the same ppt files in windows powerpoint. So, we can say google slides are compatible with windows powerpoint.

12 Even we can use these google slides in offline mode, for this, you have to install Google Docs Offline, a chrome extension that allows users to use google slides in offline mode.

13 The Google Slides app is available free of charge to individuals but also as part of Google's GSuite business centre program, a monthly subscription that provides additional business-oriented features.

14 Currently, it is available in 83 languages.

15 No need to worry about sudden closed of the browser while working with google files, google slides will automatically save the files and give the name 'untitled presentations' so that when you open Google Slides you will get them back.

16 Google Slide provides seamless integration with google font.

18 It's possible for multiple individuals to work on the slides at the same time, and all changes are saved automatically.

19 You can talk, leave comments, and work on the same presentation simultaneously.

20 Images, Audio and Video can be added to presentations.

21 Your Google Slides presentation can be shared in a variety of ways. You can send them to a small group of people privately or make them available on the worldwide web. In addition, you can choose whether or not the presentation can be viewed or edited by anybody.

22 When giving a presentation using Google Slides, you can include captions that update in real-time. click here for more.

Google Slides Limitations

1 Not as refined as MS Powerpoint but is improving.
2 Has fewer choices for effects.

Conclusion:

Google Slides is an extremely powerful presentation program that allows us to present our presentation with as many features as possible.

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