Using the AhaSlides add-on in Google Slides

With the AhaSlides add-on for Google Slides, you can add interactive slides like polls, quizzes, and word clouds into your Google Slides presentations. This guide will walk you through setting up and using the AhaSlides add-on.

Step 1: Installing the AhaSlides Add-on

1. Open your Google Slides presentation.

2. Click on Extensions in the top toolbar, then select Add-ons > Get add-ons.

3. In the search bar, type 'AhaSlides', then press 'Enter'. After that, click Install under the app in the search results.

4. Once installed, go back to Extensions and select AhaSlides > Open Sidebar to open the AhaSlides Add-on sidebar.

Step 2: Adding an Interactive Slide

1. After opening the sidebar, log in to your AhaSlides account as you usually would.

If you're logged into multiple Google Accounts at the same time, you might have trouble accessing your add-ons and web apps. Multi-login, or being logged into multiple Google Accounts at once, isn't supported for Apps Script, add-ons, or web apps.

If you open the AhaSlides add-on and experience multi-login issues, try one of the following solutions:

1. Log out of all your Google Accounts and only log in to the one that has the add-on or web app you want to access.
   
2. Open an incognito window in Google Chrome, or an equivalent private browsing window, and log in to the Google Account that you are using for AhaSlides.
   

2. From the sidebar, choose the type of interactive slide you’d like to add to your Google Slides presentation (e.g., Poll, Pick Answer, Word Cloud).

3. Customize the slide content directly from the AhaSlides sidebar to suit your presentation.

If you need to edit them later, simply select the slide you want to edit, then click the "Edit this slide" button in the AhaSlides Sidebar.

Step 3: Presenting Your Interactive Slides

Once you’ve finished building the presentation, you can click the 'Present with AhaSlides' button, then choose Present now (Present from the current slide) or Present from beginning (Present from the first slide). 

This will import the whole presentation from Google Slides to AhaSlides. When the import is complete, a new tab will open, displaying the presentation on AhaSlides in presentation mode.

What happens to non-AhaSlides slides?

Once imported to your AhaSlides presentation, all non-AhaSlides slides will be converted into static images, meaning that animations, embedded audio, video, and links will not work.

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