Custom slide decks and phone control for presenters

Presenting just got a major upgrade. Facilitators can now tailor official decks to their organization and run the room from their phone — less time working around fixed slides, more freedom while you deliver.

What’s new

A new way to launch slides

The Slides button — on a cohort page or in facilitator training — now opens a launcher. Start the official LeaderFactor-maintained deck with Start Presentation, exactly as before, or pick one of your own versions.

Your own versions of official decks

Create a deck of your own as a full copy of the official deck, or of a version you made earlier. It’s a true fork: the official deck stays intact and maintained by LeaderFactor, and every change you make is yours.

A full deck editor

Editing your deck now works the way you’d expect:

• Reorder slides by dragging and dropping.
• Hide slides you don’t want to present.
• Add your own slides from images, and delete any slide.
• Edit speaker notes in a rich-text editor — bold, italic, underline, lists, color — and restore any note to the official default.

Stay in sync with official updates

Your version doesn’t go stale. When LeaderFactor updates the official deck — a slide image changes, speaker notes are edited, a slide is added or removed — you’re notified in your deck and can adopt each change with a click, or keep yours.

Control the presentation from your phone

Scan a QR code from presenter view and your phone becomes the controller — no extra sign-in. You see the current slide, your speaker notes, and what’s coming next, and the navigation buttons keep your phone, your computer, and the full-screen display in sync. Walk the room instead of standing behind a laptop. This is the newest part of the release, and we’re actively refining it.

Improvements

• Full screen now opens in its own window instead of a tab, so your presenter view stays free while you present.

Get started

1. Open your workshop or cohort and select Slides.
2. Present the official deck with Start Presentation, or create your own version and open the editor.
3. Reorder, hide, add, and annotate until the deck fits your session.
4. In presenter view, scan the QR code with your phone and run the presentation from your hand.

Updated articles

Present course materials now covers the launcher, custom decks, and the phone controller.