Recording your presentation is one of the best ways to get your ideas across, especially if you’re going to send them to someone who will not be able to see your live presentation. One thing about recording a presentation is that it’s just easy. You don’t really need any special tools or software to get the job done. So let’s walk through the process.
Step 1: Prepare Your Google Slides Presentation
Before you start recording, ensure your slides are set up and prepared. This would mean reviewing them for misspellings, proper setting of your slides in an orderable manner, and then adding images, graphs, and other visual aids you can to drive home your message.
Tip: Use some free Google Slides themes to really make your presentation look more professional and refined. Loads of beautiful themes online; use them to give that little wow to your slides!
Step 2: Record Your Presentation with Screen Recording Tools
Google Slides itself cannot record the computer screen, though. But you’ll be recording your presentation in minutes with a screen recorder. Here is how to do it:
- Free Screen Recorder: It is free, accessible, and really works great, including Loom, Screencastify, or OBS Studio.
- Share your Google Slides in the “Present” mode so that you can display your slides full screen.
- Start recording: Now open your screen recording software and click on the “Record” button. Occasionally a message will appear asking you to choose what to record: the whole desktop, a selected window, or one web browser tab. Now open your presentation in Google Slides.
- Captions and recording: As you record, speak naturally as you advance your slides at your own pace. It also gives you a chance to add any additional information about detail or background that can help your audience better understand your presentations.
- Save the recording: After getting this, stop your recording and save the video to your computer.
If you want to see more of recording only audio on Google Slides, we have that in a step-by-step guide too!
Step 3: Share Your Presentation
After being recorded, now it can be shared with other individuals. A video can be posted on YouTube or Google Drive or you can e-mail it. If it is a commercial project, then one may directly insert the video into his website or blog.
Bonus Tip:
Recording a presentation is one thing; the challenge lies in how to keep your viewers interested. Well, here are some tips on leveling up your presentations:
- Use bullet points or brief phrases instead of full paragraphs in slides.
- Use pauses or silence between the major points to let the audience absorb it.
- The pictures write a thousand words! Charts, images, and even GIFs can really help develop a heavy or complex idea.
For more hacks on how to make your slides shine, check out our presentation tips and tricks page.
Conclusion
Recording your Google Slides presentation may seem a bit intimidating if you’re not all that familiar with screen recording tools, but if broken down and focused on the right tool with just a little bit of practice, you’ll be ready to go in no time.
This guide is intended for recording presentations in school, work, or for any personal project. If you want to know more about any other presentation hacks, do remember to bookmark all our other blogs and resource material!
So, from this post, you will be able to create a completely professional-looking recorded presentation ready to share with anyone!
