PowerPoint Presenter View is a feature that lets you see your presentation and speaker notes on one monitor while your audience sees only the presentation.
While teaching, our instructors teaching are often limited to a single computer screen, which means it’s difficult to use Presenter View. However, if you present through a Zoom meeting, that changes.
Let’s look at how you can use a PowerPoint presentation in Presenter View over Zoom with only a single screen or monitor.
This setup doesn't allow Poll Everywhere slides to activate and may affect other active learning technologies. If you have questions, please contact the Office of Technology team.
Use Presenter View in Zoom
- If your presentation is saved in an online database such as SharePoint or OneDrive, download your presentation before continuing. Then, open your presentation in the PowerPoint application on your desktop.
- Open the Zoom application and join a Zoom meeting.
- Return to PowerPoint, and click the 3-dot button on the bottom, left-hand corner of the slide. Then click the Use Presenter View option.
- Navigate back to the Zoom application.
- On a Windows desktop, press the Alt+Tab.
- On a Mac, press Cmd+Tab until the Zoom application is selected.
- Click the green or blue Share button at the bottom of your screen. You’ll see options to share the entire screen or a specific application. Select the window that shows your PowerPoint presentation in the full Slideshow view.
- If you are not automatically brought to that view, navigate to Presenter View in PowerPoint:
- Windows: Alt+Tab
- Mac: Cmd+Tab
- Now, your Zoom attendees will see the Slideshow View, while you can see the Presenter View and your notes.
by the Office of Technology