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Interactive Presentation: Overview

Love Lyn
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Introduction

In this article we will walk you through the intended purpose of Interactive Presentation.
 

Traditional lectures and slide-based presentations often result in passive learning: only a handful of students participate while others tune out, and without opportunities for interaction and feedback, instructors struggle to gauge student understanding in real time.
 

Interactive Presentation helps address this issue by turning lectures into dynamic, student-driven experiences. It embeds polls, quizzes, and questions directly into slides, encouraging attentiveness and active thinking by requiring students to answer questions, while helping teachers keep track of their students' progress and level of understanding.

 

Here you can find our user guides for Interactive Presentation:

 

How It Works

Presenting live is a great way for students to engage with course content, but on its own it keeps them in a passive role. Interactive Presentation changes that by weaving questions and interaction directly into the flow of the presentation, whether delivered in-person, hybrid, or fully online.

 

Set up the presentation: Instructors upload their slides (by dragging and dropping, browsing for a file, or pasting a link), or build a presentation made up entirely of question slides, similar to an interactive quiz.

 

Add interactive questions: Teachers insert multiple-choice or open questions before or after any slide, optionally with a timer, an attachment, and a correct answer to reveal afterwards.

 

Present live: The teacher starts a live session and shares a join link; students join either directly or through their LMS (Blackboard, Canvas, Brightspace). As the presentation unfolds, students answer questions from their own device in real time, and the teacher can reveal results and correct answers before moving on.

 

Review progress and grades: After the session, teachers can see overall student progress, response and accuracy rates, session history, and export analytics, and can optionally publish a grade for participation or performance.

 

Highlighted Features

To get the most out of Interactive Presentation, educators have made use of the following features to support their existing pedagogy.

 

Flexible presentation upload: Add slides by dragging and dropping a file, browsing your computer, or pasting a link to a file stored online — or skip the slides altogether and build a question-only presentation with Create Question Slide.

 

Multiple choice and open questions: Insert questions anywhere in the deck, with optional timers and attachments (such as images), and control whether each question, its results, and its correct answer are shown to students.

 

Visibility settings: Configure when presentation slides, question slides, and answer slides become visible to students — before the presentation, only during it, after it ends, or only for those who attended.

 

Live presentation mode: Run the session live with a shareable join link; students see slides update in real time on their own device and submit answers as the teacher progresses, with responses displayed live as they come in.

 

Automatic attendance tracking: Record which students joined and participated in each live session, with no manual tracking required.

 

Configurable grading: Publish a grade as a percentage or pass/fail, with an optional manual grade adjustment for individual students.

 

Learning analytics export: Download detailed student contribution and performance data as an Excel file for further analysis.

 

Instructions module: Add instructions or another message to the top of the assignment to guide students before they begin.

 

Benefits of using Interactive Presentation

  • Increase engagement with live interactions: Polls, quizzes, and questions embedded directly in slides keep students actively involved instead of passively watching a lecture unfold.
     

  • Get instant feedback on student understanding: Real-time responses let instructors gauge comprehension and adjust their teaching on the spot, rather than discovering gaps after the fact.
     

  • Suited for all teaching modalities: Works equally well in-person, hybrid, or fully online, letting students contribute and answer questions from any device.
     

  • Reduce administrative overhead: Automatic attendance tracking and exportable analytics give teachers evidence of participation and performance without manual record-keeping.
     

Good to Know

  • If Interactive Presentation is accessed through an LMS (such as Blackboard, Canvas, or Brightspace), the presentation title can only be changed from within the LMS.

  • Interactive Presentation supports up to 500 participants per session in Europe, and up to 100 participants in Australia and the United States.

  • A downloaded presentation file will not include any questions or comments that were added in the tool.

  • During a live session, students can navigate back to previously shown slides using the left and right arrow keys on their keyboard, for example to check information relevant to a question.

     

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