How to Make an Interactive PowerPoint?

Are you still using a simple slideshow with boring slides? You may not realize, but viewers lose their interest instantly if the presentation is not interactive and engaging.

Even the most useful and valuable data can go unnoticed by the audience if your slides are not aesthetically appealing. How to make an interactive PowerPoint for maximum attention of the audience?

There are so many tips and tricks on making interactive presentations and most of them you already know. An interactive presentation should offer value in such an engaging way that viewers don’t get bored and they pay attention to what you have to show and speak.

What is an Interactive PowerPoint Presentation?

An interactive presentation is a unique way of delivering your message in such a way that the audience is constantly involved in the process. Adding questions, facts, Q&A sessions, and useful images can urge audiences to get involved in the presentation.

Interactive sessions are all about two-way communication. Generally, a presenter comes to the stage, reads the slides, and then leaves the stage without engaging the audience.

How are you supposed to know if the audience learned something new? Did they grasp the idea of your presentation? And so many other questions remain unanswered if you don’t engage with the audience.

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Tips for Interactive PowerPoint

You don’t need any extra skill to make your presentation interactive; you just have to be creative to get the audience involved. Here are some useful tips that can help you increase the impact of your presentations in front of any type of audience.

1.     Use Ice Breaker Questions

Take a start by asking a simple question that can encourage the audience to participate. Don’t ask technical or complicated questions, but keep it short and general. The question can be related to the topic of the presentation, the target industry, or it can be about anything else, any fun fact that participants might want to share with others.

2.     Add Media to the Slides

Text-based slides are less likely to grab the attention of the audience. Visuals and media improve the viewer engagement easily, but make sure you add relevant and high-quality media only.

Charts, graphs, and other custom visuals are easy to use but have huge impact on the experience of the viewers. If you don’t know from where to get high-quality images and photos for slides, use Twistly.

Free Stock Photos by Twistly

Twistly is an add-in that automatically inserts relevant high-quality stock images from different sources. Users don’t need to download or add images manually. If you want to replace any stock image with an AI-generated personalized image, Twistly has that option too.

3.     Try Animations and Transitions

PowerPoint has lots of animations and transition effects for the slides. Non-linear slides easily attract the attention of viewers. Not every slide needs to have animations and transitions, but make sure to add a few transitions to make your content more attractive.

4.     Insert Tables, Charts, Bullet Points

Text is an important part of all presentations, but long paragraphs are not only hard to read for viewers, but they also usually skip the content.

Breaking down data into tables, bullet points, and other elements helps to keep audiences engaged. For anyone, processing a table or list is way easier than reading a long paragraph.

Use Twistly for AI Tables and Charts

Adding and designing a table for the slides can be complicated. With Twistly, simply add a new slide and choose the type of elements you want for that slide. AI will suggest some layouts, including text boxes, charts, timelines, tables, and many more.

Choose any element and describe what you want to cover in that slide, and Twistly will generate content, format and design the slide with custom layout automatically.

5.     Add Morph Transitions

Some slides may use morph transition because this effect makes the progress of any step or process more interactive. Say you want to show some aspects of the slide zoomed in.

Use the morph transition for smooth animation, and selected objects will appear bigger than the rest of the slide so that viewers can easily focus on elements or data that matter the most.

6.     Get Content Ideas from Twistly

Making many presentations can be boring, and you might run out of content ideas pretty soon. But with Twistly, you never need to worry about these challenges. Twistly uses advanced AI to bring you fresh content and ideas.

Open Twistly and input the topic of your presentation and select the template for your PowerPoint presentation. Leave the rest to Twistly as AI will write engaging content and add high-quality images to your slides, all within a few moments.

7.     Interact with Foreign Audience

Presenting your idea at an international event is an amazing opportunity. Diversity of the audience makes it harder for the presenter to interact with people from other countries who don’t speak English.

You don’t know how to interact with the foreign audience, and they have no clue about your presentation. Well, Twistly solved the problem for you as it allows making a presentation in 30+ different languages.

Make Multilingual Presentations with Twistly

Simply launch Twistly, provide the topic or AI prompt for the presentation, and continue. Here, you can unlock advanced options where you get to select:

• Language for the Presentation
• Type of content, short or detailed
• Source of images for the slides

From the language option, select any language that you want, and Twistly will generate an interactive PowerPoint presentation in the language of your choice. No one feels left alone.

Conclusion

These are some practical tips on how to make an interactive PowerPoint for a diverse audience. Use Twistly for unlimited ideas and content. All of these tips are useful when you know the audience and deeply understand the topic and industry. Focus on delivering quality and value by using these amazing tips and tools.

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