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Google Hacks for Teachers!

  Quick remote learning tips and hacks for busy teachers… Presentations – Live Delivery in Google Meet Opinion: Life is easier if you present in a Chrome tab. Easiest: Make your slideshows in Google Slides. Open with Google Slides in a Chrome tab. Also good: Make your slideshows in PowerPoint. Save your PowerPoint into Google Drive and then open with Google Slides in a Chrome tab. You may have some slight format issues, but this has not caused me too much trouble thus far. Fussy PPT hack: Export your PowerPoint as a PDF. Open the PDF in a Chrome tab. This will ‘freeze’ your slides, so no animation etc., but if you want to preserve the ‘look’ of a PPT to show this can be a useful trick.   How to: 1.        Open the presentation (a Google Slides one or a PPT uploaded to Drive) in Google Slides in a Chrome tab, go to the ‘Present’ button and click the triangle. Choose ‘presenter view’. Close the ‘presenter view’ window that pops up. Your presentation is now ready in that C