Co-present Slides in Google Meet

Want advanced Google Workspace features for your business?

Try Google Workspace today!

Workspace editions that can control Slides in Google Meet

• Workspace Individual
• Business Standard
• Business Plus
• Enterprise Essentials
• Enterprise Starter
• Enterprise Standard
• Enterprise Plus
• Education Plus
• Teaching & Learning Upgrade

When you use Google Meet on an eligible work or school account, you can control Google Slides presentations from within a video meeting. You can also make other people in the video meeting co-presenters.

Important: To control a Google Slides presentation from a Google Meet video meeting, you must use a computer with a Chrome or Edge browser.

Become a main presenter

A main presenter is someone who starts presenting their Google Slides presentation from inside a Meeting.

1. On your computer, open a Chrome or Edge browser.
2. In the browser, open the file you want to present in Slides.
3. In a different tab, join a video meeting on Google Meet.
4. At the bottom of the meeting screen, click Present now A Tab.
   • Tip: For co-presenting to work, your presentation has to be shared as a tab. If you share a window or your entire screen, co-presenting won't work.
5. Click the tab with the Slides presentation Share.
6. In Google Meet, hover over the presented tile.
7. Click Start slideshow.
   • You can only control a presentation and co-presenters in Google Meet when you're in slideshow mode.
   • If another presenter starts presenting a new presentation, then they become the main presenter and all current co-presenters are cleared.

Choose co-presenters

To choose co-presenters, you have 3 options:

From the presented slide

1. In the meeting, hover over the presented slide and click Add a co-presenter .
2. In the box that appears, select one or more participants as co-presenters.

From the People panel

1. In the meeting, at the top right, click the People panel to open the panel.
2. Next to the participant you want to make a co-presenter, click More actions .
3. Click Add as co-presenter.

From an automatic suggestion in Ask Gemini in Meet

Important: This feature is only available if you: 

• Are in the Gemini Beta Program. 
• Have access to Ask Gemini in Google Meet. 
• Are using a Chrome or Edge browser.

If you're the main presenter, you might get an automatic suggestion to add a co-presenter via Ask Gemini in Meet. This suggestion might appear if another participant says something in English like: "Can you please add me as a co-presenter?" or "Next slide please."

1. In the meeting, the Ask Gemini panel in the bottom left might automatically suggest a co-presenter based on meeting activity.
2. A suggestion will appear in the bottom left corner of the screen. Example: "Let [Name] co-present."
3. Click the suggestion to make them a co-presenter.

Main presenter role

You can control the presentation with the control panel at the bottom of the presentation tile and designate co-presenters.

• To change the current slide, click to the Next or Previous slide with the arrow buttons.
• To jump to a specific slide, click the slide number then choose from the list of slides.
• Click Show/Hide speaker notes to toggle the speaker notes panel.
  • Keep in mind that a co-presenter will need edit access to the Google Slides file to see speaker notes while presenting.
• To open links or play media embedded in the presentation:
  • If the slide has media, click Media controls . A list of the links and media for the current slide will appear.
  • If the slide has links, click Share link to open the link.
  • If the slide has both media and links, click Media Link and choose which action you want to do first.
• To end the slideshow, click Exit slideshow .
  • Once you exit the slideshow, co-presenting functionality also ends.
    • Tip: Co-presenters only can control the presentation while in slideshow mode.
• To send the presentation link in the Meet chat, click Share .

Important: When someone is promoted to a co-presenter, they get access to the presentation file's link as well. If the co-presenter isn't meant to get access to the presentation file, make sure to switch off link sharing before promoting someone to be a co-presenter. Keep in mind that a co-presenter will need edit access to a file to see speaker notes while presenting.

Become a co-presenter

Who is a co-presenter?

Anyone who’s appointed by the main presenter becomes a co-presenter. The co-presenter must be inside the meeting to be designated.

Co-presenter role

Once you’re made a co-presenter, you get a visual notification inside Meet.

You can control the presentation with the control panel at the bottom right of the presented tile.

• To change the current slide, click to the Next or Previous slide with the arrow buttons.
• To jump to a specific slide, click the slide number then choose from the list of slides.
• Click Show/Hide speaker notes to toggle the speaker notes panel.
  • Keep in mind that a co-presenter will need edit access to the Google Slides file to see speaker notes while presenting.
• To open links or play media embedded in the presentation:
  • If the slide has media, click Media controls . A list of the links and media for the current slide will appear.
  • If the slide has links, click Share link to open the link.
  • If the slide has both media and links, click Media Link and choose which action you want to do first.

Related resources

• Use Google Meet with Google Docs, Sheets, & Slides
• Present during a video meeting