Google Slides

Templates: Slides Carnival, Slides Mania, and SlidesGo

Layouts and Page Size

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes

• Any shape can become a text box by double clicking inside of it
• Change backgrounds to be gradient or semi-transparent (choose custom color)
• Add/Change Border
• Add new Text Fonts

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• Inserting word art & charts/diagrams

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Hexagon

Crop to a Different Shape

• Insert Image

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• Click the drop down arrow next to crop and select desired shape

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• Resize as needed

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Hyperlinking

• Add a link to a website to any text, shape, or image

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• Add a link to another slide within a presentation

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• Add a link to a slide in a different slidedeck

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Insert Audio and Video

• Record Audio using Vocaroo or an app on your phone (mp3 or wav files), save to Google Drive as Anyone with the Link, Click Insert→ Audio. For more information click here.
• Insert→ Video, either from YouTube, Drive, or URL.
• Format Options

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Insert GIFs

• Do a Google Search for the Gif you want, or go to Giphy.com
• Select the Gif
• Right Click on Gif
• Copy Image Address
• In Slides, click Insert→ Image→ By URL
• Paste Url and Click Insert
• Crop and Resize as Needed

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Short Cuts

• Ctrl+C- Copies the image, text, box
• Ctrl+V- Pastes the image, text, box
• Ctrl+X- Cuts and puts the image, text, box in clipboard
• Ctrl+K- Inserts Hyperlink
• Ctrl+D- Duplicates the Image or Text Box

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Force Make a Copy, Present, or Preview Modes

Copy the url, change from the word “edit” and behind to:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14i-LT-dh-H1iA7wZqxISekdU8ftG2bB8hlu52fd2UpA/edit#slide=id.g847f30f725_1_337

• Force Make a Copy: copy

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• Force into Present Mode: present

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• Force into Preview Mode: preview

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Uneditable Slides

Option 1: Edit Master Slide

Option 2: Save as image, and upload to background

Make sure shapes, counters, and places you want students to type are not part of the background