Presenting your beautiful Canva slides online using tools like Zoom
really couldn't be easier, so today I'm going to show you exactly how it's done.
I'll also be showing you how to engage with your audience during your webinar using Canva's
fantastic new tool called Canva.Live. So make sure you keep watching until the end. If you're new to
this channel I'm Nicky Pasquier, I'm a Canva Certified Creative and I started my business
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little bell notification so you're one of the first to know when I publish a new video. At
the moment we don't know how long it's going to be until we can start meeting up again in person and
attending live conferences but with tools like Zoom holding conferences and webinars online
couldn't be easier. So if you're ready let's hop over to Zoom and get started
Open up zoom onto your desktop and click on 'Schedule'. Select date and time for your webinar
Allow Zoom to automatically generate a meeting ID, unless you specifically want to generate your own
personal meeting ID. It's a very good idea to allow attendees to enter a green room
prior to your webinar. You can then admit everybody at the same time when you're all
set up and ready. Make sure your video is on and set your participants' video to the 'off' setting.
Select whichever calendar tool you use so you can add your meeting link directly to your calendar.
You don't need to use Advanced Options but there are some pretty handy tools
underneath. Leave this box unchecked because you don't want participants to join at any time,
you want them to join at the same time when you're ready. You want to be able to mute participants so
put a tick in this box here. Also it's a good idea to automatically record your meeting onto
your local laptop or desktop so place a tick in this box here. This will give you an opportunity
to share a link with attendees who couldn't attend the meeting and also upload a link to your
recording to YouTube if that's what you'd like to do. When you've finished just click on 'Save'.
When you start a meeting you'll see a screen like this. If you're hosting the meeting you'll have
full control over sharing your screen. You'll find the screen sharing button right at the bottom in
the toolbar, It's this green button right here. So just click on the green screen sharing button
to open a screen that will look something like this. Click on this screen once where you see
your Canva slides. Now go down to the bottom right hand corner and click on the blue button that says
'Share'. Before you start sharing your screen it's a good idea to ensure you have your Canva slides
open and ready to present. Make sure that you reduce this sidebar by clicking on the little
tiny arrow right here. You have two handy toolbars to help you doing your presentation.
The first one you'll see towards the top of your screen and is Zoom's screen sharing toolbar.
You can actually hold your mouse over it, hold the cursor down and move it around to wherever
you'd like it to be positioned. If you've not used this before it has some really handy tools
and I'll run through them really quickly. But you can have a better look yourself after this
tutorial. Click here to put yourself on mute or click on the downward arrow to access your
audio settings. You can stop the video. You have some handy security tools right here.
I would untick this option for participants to unmute themselves because you don't want them to
interrupt you with questions or noise when you're in full flow. So I'm just going to unselect that.
Moving along you can see how many participants are watching your webinar. You can pause your screen
share and you can also annotate whatever is on your screen. And I absolutely love this tab!
I'll be talking about it a little later on. Now let me move on to show you exactly how to present
your slides in Canva. And you can keep your slides as they are by sharing your screen and
just scroll down to transition between slides. But for the best and most professional experience that
your audience will love go to the top right hand corner of your Canva toolbar and click on this
'Present' button. Click on the downward arrow to access the drop down menu and you'll find
three different present modes. There's Standard, Autoplay and Presenter View. I explained in one of
my most recent tutorials how to use each of these modes so I'll leave the link in the end screen
and in the description box below so make sure you check it out later. The best mode for presenting
slides in a webinar is the Standard mode. So I'm just going to click on that and click on Present.
And now you can see my screen has entered the full screen mode. You can also see that the Zoom
screen sharing toolbar will always stay on top so you can still access it. But what I love most is
the little tiny Canva Present toolbar which is right at the bottom. Again check out my previous
tutorial for a full walkthrough of all the Canva presentation tools within this toolbar. In present
mode Canva has its own animated cursor effects which is really handy if you want to draw your
audience's attention to something specific on your slides. You can also find some fabulous tools on
Zoom's own toolbar, so click on 'Annotate'. If you don't like Canva's animated cursor just click on
Spotlight and click on this little tiny icon here to access Zoom's animated cursor. If you don't
like the color animation click again and click on the arrow which will point to something specific.
To emphasize key points within your presentation click on the Draw tab here, click on the arrow
icon and then draw an arrow. Or highlight sections of text by clicking on the highlight box, holding
down your cursor and dragging it over the text you want to draw your audience attention to.
And you've just got to love this stamp tool! Click on it once, click on the heart and add a little
heart stamp. To get rid of any annotations you've added click on the eraser tool and just click
over the annotations. To close the annotation tab down just click on this little tiny cross in the
top left hand corner. Whilst you're presenting your slides in Canva you can click on the little
side arrows to transition between slides.
To add transitions please refer to my previous tutorial
but essentially what you'll do is you'll go to the top left hand corner of your Canva toolbar
and click on the Animate tab where you'll find seven animations or transitions to choose from
with a Canva free account. And another seven...yes seven transitions for Canva Pro users.
It's always a little bit problematic to hold an audience's attention during a webinar or
a presentation but fortunately Zoom and Canva provide some really interesting chat tools to get
your audience to engage in your talk. So looking at the bottom of your screen you'll see a chat
tool, click on it once and you'll see the chat pop up on the right hand side of your screen.
"This is where people can interact with each other and with you during your webinar".
You can also download your slides as a PDF file from Canva but you can attach the PDF file
to the chat section by clicking on this file link. You can then locate your file within Dropbox,
MS, Google Drive, Box, Microsoft Sharepoint or your computer! If you don't want to use Zoom's
native chat you can use Canva's new feature. It's very exciting, it's a brand new feature
and you'll find it by hovering your mouse right down on the bottom right hand corner of your
screen and clicking on this little tiny button here to bring up Canva.Live. I talked about Canva
Live in my previous tutorial but essentially what happens is you ask your audience to join
from any mobile device they might have. They will type "Canva.Live" into their browsers
and enter the code that's generated by Canva, in this case 076-168
"Hello Nicky how are you today?" Send.
And your audience's question will appear on the right hand side of your screen.
So now you know how to present your Canva slides on Zoom. If you want to find out more about Canva
presentations, how to transfer them to PowerPoint, download them as a PDF file with clickable links
and even add transitions you'll find all the details coming up in my playlist in just a second.