Making Google Slides more interactive

Google Slides has a little-known "Q&A" feature that allows your audience to post questions during your presentation, allows them to vote on each other's questions, and allows you to keep a history of questions asked.


To start the Q&A feature, go to "present" and choose "presenter view". This launches the Q&A feature (you can also see your speaker notes from this view).


When the Q&A is active, your audience sees a banner across the top of your slides with "Ask a question" and a short URL.

When they go to that site, they'll have the option to either ask a question or vote on a question to be answered.

You as the presenter can either see the questions in real time (in presenter view) or track them via the Q&A History (from the Tools menu). Even if there's no time to take Q&A during your presentation, the Q&A history is saved, so you can go back to it at a later class and answer questions, or tailor the next lesson accordingly. You can also have multiple time-stamped sessions of Q&A if you'd like each class to have their own individual questions.

Check out Teacher Tech for more cool Google Slides features.