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There are plenty of times when a teacher might want to loop a presentation, like at Meet the Teacher night or to display student work. In addition, students might loop a presentation as a way to make an animation. Unlike PowerPoint and Keynote, Google Slides does not have a straightforward way to loop a presentation—but there is way! After you’ve created a series of slides, click the File menu and choose Publish to the web. Choose a number of seconds from the pop up menu. Check the “Start slideshow as soon as the player loads” and “Restart slideshow after last slide.” Click Publish and you’ll get a URL that you can copy. When opened, this URL plays the slideshow on a loop. You can click the Full Screen icon to present the slides without your browser’s toolbar.

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Long videos can be an information overload. Shorter clips with time to think, discuss, and apply can help learner better understand the content. You can use Google Slides to chop up a video into segments. After inserting a video on a slide, select the video and click the Format Options button and expand Video Playback in the side panel. You can specify the start and end times for the clip. You can also include instructions, questions, and links on the slide. You can duplicate the slide and change the start and end times for the next segment. Repeat this as many times as needed. Now that the long video is chopped up, it’s more digestible. 👍

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