Using presenter mode

Starting a presentation

Open a presentation and start presenting. Podium opens an audience window that shows only the current slide, full-bleed and free of any interface, plus a presenter view for you.

What the presenter view gives you

Everything you would otherwise be trying to remember.

• The current slide, so you always know what the room is looking at
• A preview of the next slide, so transitions stop being a surprise
• Your speaker notes for the current slide, at a readable size
• A running timer and slide position

Putting the audience window on the second screen

With a projector or second display connected, Podium can place the audience window on that display and keep the presenter view on your laptop. Your browser may ask for permission to manage windows the first time — allow it, and the placement happens automatically from then on. If a browser does not support that, drag the audience window onto the second display once and it will behave normally.

Presenting on one screen

On a single display, use the solo view. You still get slide navigation, the timer and your notes; there is simply no separate audience window to place. This is the right mode for rehearsal and for video calls where you share the audience window as a tab.

Keeping your audience in view

The Audience panel in the top right of presenter view can show the people you are talking to while you read your notes. Choose Connect Meeting and pick your Google Meet, Teams or Zoom window in the browser's own picker; Podium then displays that window locally, muted, beside your script. Use the focus options — full meeting, right side, top strip, grid or a custom crop you drag yourself — to show the participant cameras rather than the slides being shared. Nothing is recorded, uploaded or shown on the audience screen, and the feed can never appear in the audience window. Window capture is most reliable in desktop Chrome and Edge; if your browser cannot do it, use Google Meet's or Teams' own picture-in-picture window instead and place it beside Podium.

Controls while presenting

Move forward and back with the arrow keys or the on-screen controls. The two windows stay in sync — advancing in presenter view advances the audience screen immediately.