Here are 5 reasons that I’m thinking about making the switch from PowerPoint to Slides:
Reason 1 - Built For Collaboration: Collaboration is the big reason to go with Google Slides. The ability to easily share and simultaneously edit a Google Drive document is the platform's biggest selling point. Our presentations, like our documents, are increasingly created and presented with collaborators. 
Reason 2 - Simple UI Encourages Simpler Presentations: This reason took me by surprise. I thought that I’d miss all the options in PowerPoint. What I’m finding is that by having fewer options to build the presentation my finished deck looks cleaner and simpler. 
Reason 3 - Offline Access for Editing and Presenting: The big worry with using Google Drive has been offline access. It seems that Google is getting much closer to solving this problem. For Google Slides I needed to download the Slides app in from the Chrome browser from the Chrome Web Store. .
Reason 4 - Access Presentation from Any Device: The ability to access any Google Drive document from any browser has always been a big selling point of browser based applications.   
Reason 5 - Easy Web Publishing and Sharing: I’m wondering if more of us switched to Google Slides if norms around presentation sharing would change. Slides makes it dead simple to share a presentation on the Web.

USES: 
  1. Open your presentation, click File, and then select "Publish to the Web".
  2. Choose the amount of time before the slides advance.  You can also select the option to have the slideshow begin automatically and to restart the slideshow after the last slide (looping).
  3. Click “Published content & settings”. This will allow you to require viewers to sign in to my.ccpsnet.net in order to view the presentation. If you want to restrict viewers to CCPS-only, be sure to check the box.
  4. When you have your settings the way that you want, click “Publish” (or “Start publishing”).  If a confirmation box appears, click “OK”.
  5. After clicking Publish, a new link will appear in the window. You need to use this link instead of clicking “Present”. Clicking “Present” will show the Slides without auto-advance or looping.
  6. You can still edit the content of your presentation after you Publish to the Web.  If you want to change the auto-advance: Go back to Publish to the Web, change the settings and copy the new link.

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