The document provides steps for using the Zoho ShowTime presentation platform, which allows teachers to give interactive presentations that engage students. It explains how to set up a Zoho account, install the ShowTime plugin in PowerPoint, sync and share presentations, view audience engagement data, conduct polls, and use features like slide tools and chat. The goal of using ShowTime is to make presentations more conversational and enable two-way interaction between presenters and students.

1. Lebanese University
Faculty of Pedagogy
Master of Educational Technology
Introduction to Educational Technology
Dr. Ibrahim Kebbe
STEPS TO ZOHOSHOWTIME
Done by: Ali Ghanawi
1st
Semester

2. What is Zoho?
It is an online program that lets you store documents and share them; it also
allows you to create discussion boards.
It contains several services such as:
1. Sales and marketing bundle: Zoho CRM Plus unifies the customer-
facing teams with single all-in-one software and provides them with
visibility of every customer interaction. Empower the teams with the
technology they need to give the customers a better experience
2. Finance bundle: everything you need to manage your operations and
finances.

3. 3. Work place bundle for Email and collaboration: all the tools needed to
create, collaborate and communicate with the team members.
And other bundles such as: It & Help Disk, HR and Business Process
As teachers we will focus on the Zoho ShowTime Service found in the
Workplace bundle.

4. Zoho ShowTime Service
To know why we are using Zoho ShowTime service, let’s read the following
points:
 Presentations are always one way?!
 You may be far from your students or can’t know how they are reacting
or thinking about your presentation!
 Presentation performance is hard to measure!
ShowTime gave a different way of thinking about presentations and solved
many of the points above.
What is Zoho ShowTime?
ShowTime is a presentation delivery platform that connects the teacher and the
students. It’s a web and mobile App that brings interactivity into a presentation.
So presentation becomes:
1. Presentations become meaningful conversation.
2. Enables student engagement.
3. Measures presentation Performance.
4. ShowTime is best suited for Face to Face conversations.
ShowTime works on Windows Pcs, Mobile phones and tablets. It is compatible
with PowerPoint and can upload pdf files.
How ShowTime enables Audiences?
 Presentations can be followed by any viewer’s device.
 Making viewers revisit previous slides no matter where presenter is.
 Viewer can follow from any location no matter where the presenter is.
 Audience can “Like” any slide.
 Viewers can pose questions on any slide anytime and presenters can
project these questions on screen.
 Presenter can give voice to audience and make polls.

5. How ShowTime empower presenters?
 Walk around with everything on their fingertips by using ShowTime
presenter App on their smart phones.
 Get private audience feedback
 Get detailed engagement stats at the end.
 Know the audience for subsequent follow-up
 Publish presentation to reach more audience.
Creating a Zoho account
Go to the Zoho website Www.Zoho.com
Or click on the login and Just type in your email and password you can sign up
using Google mail.
And then Choose the ShowTime Service
Sign Up now

6. After having an account you can login in any time by using the email you
provided in the sign up process
You can also sign in by these Accounts

7. Steps to ShowTime:
1. Adding ShowTime Plugin
Go to Www.Zoho.com/Showtime
And the following page will be seen:
Now click the PowerPoint tab in the above part of the page
2. Install the ShowTime plug-in
After choosing the PowerPoint menu you will be directed to this
page:
1. Choose whether
the PowerPoint
version is 64bit or
32 bit.
2. Start downloading
the plug-in, it will
be added in the
PowerPoint Menu
bar as the Mix Add.
3. It only works on
window systems.

8. After following the steps and completing the installation the
ShowTime plug-in will be added to the PowerPoint menu.
Clicking on the show time tab shows all the buttons related to it.
Login and start using ShowTime.

9. 3. Getting started
On clicking on it, the following page will appear:
This is a guide to help you understand show time at your own pace.
4. Completed Sessions
On clicking on it,
the following page
will appear

10. 5. Sync Sessions
It is important to sync your PowerPoint presentation with your ShowTime cloud
account. Syncing upload your presentation to the cloud account and only when
the slides are on the cloud the students can connect and engage during the Talk.
Once presentation is synced a success message will appear.
6. Uploading a session
Press the new Button and
upload a file from the computer
(ppt, pptx, pdf)
If presentations where synced
earlier press the “continue to present” button and the following message will
appear:
Here the code must be sent to the students’ emails; it is like a password for them
to connect and follows the presentation on their devices. And they can write
after visiting the Zoho website

11. After sending the audience key you can start
launching the session and the presenter
screen will appear which is similar to the
PowerPoint presenter view but with little
difference such as:
1. Notification
for the
number of
likes this
slide had
during the
session
2. Thumbnail
view of slides
3. Questions
and answers
received on
this slide
4. Engagement
gage. It shows
the number of
Audiences
connected on
this slide

12. 7. Creating session
or you can schedual a session and creating it and assiginig a date and time
for it.
After creating, this will be shown:
Press
1
2
3
4
If checked

13. Integration Menu
Setting menu

14. Talk Settings is used to leave a message at the end of the presentation, the
presenter can edit it and write his own sentence.
Analytic Dashboard:
Shows the engagement the students made during the slide show and can rate
and ask questions about the slide.

15. Creating a Poll
Create or import polls during the session to keep your session
engaging and interactive.
1st
choose
session details
2nd
select create a poll
Here choose the
poll type.
Ask a question
Give choice to
students to vote on
Finally create

16. Multiple Choice
Let your students select among various pre-defined options.
 Enter a question.
 Enter the options for your audience to vote and click Create.
 By default, there are two answer options. You can choose to add
additional options by clicking on the +Add Option button.
Textbox
Text boxes let your students write free response answers. These questions can
be used to collect open ended feedback.
 Enter a question.
 Choose the maximum number of characters (30 /60 /90 /120 /150 /300)
for your audience can enter in the text box and click Create.
 By default, 300 characters will be selected, but you can change the limit
by clicking on the drop-down and selecting a different number.
Rating
Let your audience select a single rating for your question. These questions can
be used to take a survey or get an item ranked.
 Enter a question.
 Choose the maximum number of stars (3 /5 /10) for your audience to use
for rating.
 Choose a label to explain the value (e.g. Agree & Disagree) and click
Create.
 By default, a 5-star rating scale will be selected, but you can change the
rating by clicking on the drop-down and selecting a different number.
Note: All the Polls that you create will be added to the library.
 The polls that you created will appear on the Polls page. To create
another poll Click Create Poll.
 Once you create polls you can use them during your session

17. Here you can see you poll
Click the Questions tab to see the students’ questions

18. Audience tab
In this tab, you can see information about each person who attended your
session, including their name, email address, the number of slides they liked, the
number of questions they asked, and how they rated the session. You can export
the data to a spreadsheet. View the attended and the not attended attendee list.
There is Also the feedback tab and chat tab where the presenter can take
feedback from his students and make chat with them.

19. Remember: all the above steps will be meaningless if you don’t select launch
after preparing your session

20. 8. Join From a Mobile Device
There are three ways for students to join your session from their mobile devices:
 Connect through a web browser: The student goes to attend.zoho.com
and enters the audience key from the instruction slide.
 Connect through a "Join" link: The student clicks the Join link sent in
the registration email.
 Connect through the Viewer app: The student downloads the Viewer
app from the Play Store or App Store launches the app, and enters the
audience key.
Once attendees are connected, they can use their mobile devices to view your
slides, answer poll questions, pose questions about slides, and "like" other
attendee's questions.

21. Navigate the Slideshow
Forward and Back
You can navigate forward and back in your presentation using the arrow buttons
at the bottom-right corner of the screen, or with the arrow, Page Up, and Page
Down keys on your keyboard. Attendees will be able to view your current slide
and all slides that preceded it.
Go to Slide
To jump around between slides, click the Go to Slide button at the bottom-
right corner of the screen. You can see each slide's number and heading, and
choose the one you want to jump to.
You can also use the Go to Slide option to bring up the Instruction slide and
display it to attendees again.
The Instruction slide contains
the audience key and explains
the different ways attendees
can connect to your session.
If you need to let tardy
participants join after the
presentation has started, click
Go to Slide and select the
Instruction slide. When
everyone is on board, click
the slide again to resume
your presentation.

22. Use Slide Tools
If you were presenting on a whiteboard, you might need a marker or ruler to
highlight the important words. ShowTime offers built-in presentation tools like
Arrow, Pointer, Pen,
Highlighter, and Show Ink
Mark up to help bring
attendee focus to your key
points.
To access slide tools:
1. Click the Arrow
button at the bottom
right corner of the
screen. Select the tool you want to use.

23. As a conclusion
References:
www.Zoho.com
www.Zoho.com/showTime