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Presentation Platforms

Slide with Friends

December 21, 2022

Slides With Friends — Interactive events, meetings, and presentations

Slide with Friends: Slides With Friends is an interactive slide deck player and builder. It has ready-to-play game decks to share with the team live, such as quizzes, classroom games, icebreakers, team building, check-ins, polling, and more. It is also a deck builder to create custom interactive presentations for the group to join in and play along. Free plan for hosting up to 10 people. Free/Paid

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Filed Under: All Tools, Polls & Surveys, Presentation Platforms Tagged With: Free/Paid

Prezi Video

June 16, 2021

Prezi Video

Prezi video is a great tool for creating pre-recorded or live videos with your Powerpoint or Prezi presentation to show alongside while you speak.

Free/Paid

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Venngage

April 15, 2021

Venngage interface

Venngage: This is a great tool for creating several different types of visual materials, such as infographics, presentations, reports, diagrams, and lesson plans. The tool has a variety of templates for you to choose from, and you’ll find the templates’ ease-of-use convenient when you want to build visuals in a short amount of time. Venngage is also cloud-based, so you can continue working on templates from any device. Create up to five free projects. FREE/PAID

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Filed Under: Data Visualization, Design, Ebooks, Infographics, Make & Build, Mind Maps, Presentation Platforms, Project Management, Writing Tagged With: Free/Paid

LiveSlides

March 8, 2019

LiveSlides is a powerpoint or keynote add-in that enables embedding live content to your slideshow presentations. It works by adding browser capabilities to your presentation software without the look of a browser. Embed content such as web videos, calendars, maps, twitter feeds, polls, quizzes, and others, and present them as live content, activating features such as audience participation and collaboration. (Note: to make use of its features, you must have an active internet connection during the presentation.) Free.

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Ludus

February 28, 2018

Ludus: a web-based presentation platform that works with building blocks instead of slide templates. You can drag and drop “anything” into your project and create a variety of effects and layers to make a unique presentation. Ludus also integrates with several third-party apps such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Dropbox, amongst others. Collaboration tools only available at its highest price point. 30 Days Free Trial/Paid. 

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Google Apps for Education

May 14, 2017

NYU has licensed a set of Google products to handle communication, calendars, file storage, and other teaching and learning apps, according to these Terms of Use. The full suite of Google Apps for Education include:

  • Mail
  • Calendar
  • Drive (file storage and sharing)
  • Classroom (course sites; NYU LMS (Brightspace) is the university’s official LMS)
  • Docs (word processor)
  • Sheets (spreadsheet)
  • Groups (group email)
  • Meet (video conferencing)
  • Chat (chat within NYU Gmail)
  • Sites (website platform)
  • Slides (presentation platform)
  • Drawings 
  • Forms (surveys, quizzes, etc.)

Learn More:

  • NYU ServiceLink Overview
  • Tutorials at LinkedIn Learning
  • Group Workshops available through Digital Services at Bobst (see the NYU IT Calendar)
  • Group demos at Gallatin available (contact us to request a demo)
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Renderforest

May 10, 2017

Renderforest: cloud-based video maker with easy-to-use templates and tools for creating professional intros, animations, slideshows and music visualizations. Free account renders watermarked, standard-quality videos (SD360) for embedding on the web or exporting. Higher quality files without a watermark available under a subscription of pay-per-use service. Free/Paid.

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ExplainEverything

May 10, 2017

ExplainEverything: a tablet-based application that enables you to create videos using original material such as a slideshow presentation, voice-over, images and others and its visual library. Free/Paid.

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Focusky

November 7, 2016

Focusky: platform for creating and sharing “zooming presentations.” Available for download, and on browsers. FREE/Premium.

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slid.es

November 7, 2016

slid.es: sleek web-based presentation software that offers collaborative authoring, live streaming and controlling presentations remotely with a mobile device. Public presentations available with free subscription. Private presentations with Pro or Team Plans. FREE/Premium.

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