Presenter view

Google Slides can open a separate Presenter view window with your notes, a clock and a preview of the current slide. With Doppio, the preview of a poll slide is live. You can watch the room vote from the window you are already looking at, instead of turning round to the big screen.

Open it

1. Start your session as usual: click the Doppio extension icon and press Start Presentation.
2. In Google Slides, open the arrow next to Slideshow and choose Presenter view.
3. Move to a poll slide. Within a second or two, its preview comes alive.

It does not matter whether you open presenter view before or after starting the session. The live view appears once both are running.

Two ways to see a poll

Presenter view can show a poll in one of two modes. Switch between them with the Mirror and Telemetry buttons in the top right of the presenter view window.

Mode	What you see	When to use it
Telemetry (default)	The numbers only you can see: votes so far, each option's count and share, who is leading, whether the poll is open or closed and how long is left.	Most of the time. You get the state of the room at a glance, in text large enough to read from a lectern.
Mirror	The same chart the audience sees on the big screen, cover and all.	When you want to know exactly what the room is looking at, for example before you reveal results.

Telemetry shows the numbers even while the audience is looking at a cover. That is the point: it is your view of the room, not theirs. On a quiz, the correct answer gets a tick once you reveal it.

The share column always adds up to 100%, and a votes/min figure appears once enough votes have arrived to measure a pace. The count of people who have finished voting sits in the footer.

Choose a default

You can also set the mode from the sidebar. Open the Event tab and use Presenter view shows. The sidebar and the presenter view buttons always agree: change one and the other follows.

The choice is remembered by the Doppio extension in that browser, so it applies to every deck you present from it. It does not travel with the deck, so set it again if you present from another computer.

Control the poll from here

Presenter view has the same controls as the big screen:

• Press and hold the chart to close the poll early for everyone.
• On a test run, the Test votes button adds a burst of sample votes.

Good to know

• Only the preview of the current slide is live. The Previous and Next thumbnails keep their still images.
• If you reveal results by tapping the chart on the big screen, a Mirror in presenter view keeps its cover until you tap that too. Telemetry is unaffected, because it never shows a cover.
• Drop-in polls do not appear in presenter view yet. Watch them on the big screen.
• Presenter view needs version 1.0.9 or later of the Doppio extension. Chrome updates extensions on its own, usually within a few hours of a release, so there is nothing to install. If the preview still shows a still image of the chart, restart Chrome to pick up the update, then start the session again.

For the rest of show day, see Running a live session.