ANN: Presentation mode for slideshows

[williamstein]

CoCalc has a very new graphical Slides editor, with rich text support, computational Jupyter code cells, pens so you can write during your presentation, and more. This is based on our Whiteboard so it has many of the same features as the whiteboard (e.g., mind mapping edges, etc.)

I just added a new slideshow presentation mode, which makes things cleaner when you want to actually give a presentation using a slideshow. To use it, click on the present icon:

or select "Slideshow Presentation" from the dropdown:

then click the "Start Slideshow" button:

This will transition to fullscreen with only the actual slide displayed (nothing outside the margins), always maximally zoomed, like in Powerpoint or Google slides. There's a little wrench icon (that appears only when you move the mouse)

you can click it to toggle the toolbar, in case you want to select a pen or click on code and run it live during your talk, or access any other editing tools.

PLANS:

• there is still no presenter control panel, which links speaker notes to the fullscreen presentation window.
• there is no conversion between these slides and slides created using the Jupyter notebook slide toolbar. That's planned and will enable live execution of code during talks, along with the ability to type notes, scribble with a pen, etc.

[DrXyzzy]

Online docs updated: https://doc.cocalc.com/slides.html#presentation-mode

[williamstein]

I added links to this from the slides help button.