Presenting a Deck with Superable Presenter # Presenting a Deck with Superable Presenter Superable Presenter lets you present any course as a slide deck. You read your speaker notes in the Presenter Console, and your audience sees the slides in the Audience View. Notes never reach the Audience View or the course. Presenting is part of the Pro and Premium plans. On the free Sandbox plan you can build a deck and read it as a course, but not present it. ## Before you start You need: - **A Pro or Premium plan.** - **An Admin Panel account** for your organization. - **A browser that allows pop-ups from your Superable Learning site.** Start Presenting opens your notes in a second window. ## Step 1: Make your course presentable A deck is an ordinary course that's marked as presentable. 1. Open the course in the packager. To change a course you've already published, use **Edit Modules in Packager** on its card in the Admin Panel. 2. Check **Make this course available in Presenter Mode**. 3. For each module (each slide), add your speaker notes. You can also fill in **Target Time (pacing cue)**, such as the point in the talk you want to reach that slide. 4. If you want learners who read the deck as a course to see your notes, check **Show speaker notes to learners as talking points** (see "Turning notes into talking points" below). 5. Publish the course. If you've connected an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT to your site, you can also ask it to build a presentable deck for you. ## Step 2: Open the launch page 1. In the Admin Panel, go to the **Course Library**. 2. On the deck's card, choose **Present**. The launch page opens in a new tab. The launch page tells you how many slides the deck has, how long it's meant to take, and whether any access codes are active. ## Step 3: Start presenting Choose **Start Presenting**. Two things happen: - The launch tab becomes the **Audience View**: the slides only, with nothing else on screen. This is the window you share in Zoom or Microsoft Teams, or put on the projector. - Your notes open in the **Presenter Console**, a second window in front of it. Moving through your slides in the console moves the Audience View too. **On one screen:** the console window is sized slightly shorter than the screen, so the slides behind it keep updating. Don't maximize the console or make it full screen. If the Audience View stops updating anyway, the console tells you once, and again when it's back. Press **Alt+Shift+F** or choose **Switch to No-Freeze Layout** to fix it. **On two screens:** drag the console to your other screen. There you can maximize it. ## Step 4: Let your audience follow along If your deck is public, people can open it at its normal course address. For any other deck, give the room a live session access code. Admins and Editors can make one. **From the launch page** (the quickest way, right before you present): 1. Under **Access Code for This Session**, choose how long it should work: 1 hour, 4 hours or 24 hours. 2. Choose **Create an Access Code**. The page shows the code, the join address and a QR code. **Copy Access Code** copies the code, ready to paste into a meeting chat. Scanning the QR code opens the join page with the code already filled in. **Save QR Code Image** saves it as a picture you can put on a slide. 3. The Presenter Console shows the code too, under its heading. Press **Alt+C** in the console to hear the code and the join address, or choose **Copy Access Code** there. **From the Admin Panel**, for longer events: in the Course Library, open **Live Session Access Codes** on the deck's card, choose a length (up to 30 days), and choose **Generate Access Code**. That code is shown once, so copy it or read it out then. People enter the code at your organization's join page: `/join` on your organization's own web address, or `superablelearning.com/your-organization-code/join`. The exact address is shown next to the code. No account is needed. To end access early, choose **Revoke Code** in the console, **Revoke This Code** on the launch page, or **Revoke** next to the code in the Admin Panel. Anyone using it loses access straight away. Revoking from the console doesn't reload it, so your place and the timer are kept. ## Handouts The launch page's **Open the Handout** link opens every slide exactly as the Audience View shows it, one after another, with the deck's talking points under each slide if it shows them (never your speaker notes). Choose **Print or Save as PDF**, then **Save as PDF** as the printer, for a copy people can print or annotate: one slide per landscape page. Anyone who can open the deck can open its handout. ## After the session The deck is still a course. Anyone with access can go back through it at their own pace, without your speaker notes. ### Turning notes into talking points You can show learners the useful parts of your notes as talking points in course view, while keeping private reminders out: - In the packager, check **Show speaker notes to learners as talking points**. - In a module's speaker notes, select anything that's only for you, such as a cue or a reminder, and choose **Mark or Unmark Presenter-Only**. Marked parts never appear in the course. The button adds the code to your notes and tells you what it added: text inside a paragraph is wrapped in `<span class="sl-presenter-only">`, and if your selection includes whole paragraphs or list items, each one gets `class="sl-presenter-only"` on its opening tag. Press it again on marked text to remove the marking. From inside the notes box, **Alt+Shift+N** does the same without leaving it. - **Save Directly to Course Library** updates the deck you opened in the packager, even if you changed its title. ## Slide templates To see the slide layouts you can build with, open the [Slide Layout Gallery](https://superablelearning.com/superableaccessibility/courses/slide-layout-gallery), a public deck with one slide per template.