Macabacus by CFI vs. Google Slides

Google Slides is perfect for teams working on a presentation for a customer, where multiple people can be working on the same presentation at the same time. It is also helpful to see who is currently viewing the presentation and if and what they are currently editing. Google Slides might not be the best solution for all presentations as sometimes a customer requests a live demo.

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• Easy to create and manage (lecturer side).
• Intuitive and easy to use (students side).
• Various sharing options, well integrated in most web browsers.

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• Sometimes bugs in changing fonts or other formatting
• Edit tracking, while good, could still be improved
• Better basic flow-charting
• Better UI navigation, specifically around zooming instead of 'enlarging everything in browser'

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The popularity for Google Slides among the casual technology tool users is so great that we are not in a position to replace this tool with anything else. Every other tool either doesn't have the popularity, or doesn't match the ease of sharing level of Slides. The training needed to learn a different tool is too great. Google Slides is very easy to pick up and master.

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It fairly easy to use and manage, especially if you are already in the Google Suite - however design styling is often lacking and missing - which can be a major draw back if you are presenting to an external party. For those cases I will typically use Keynote or Figma Slides

Incentivized

Google Slides works both online and offline, they are free to use if you have a Google account. Easy to share and are supported by most web browsers. A great addition to your arsenal of interactive educational online platforms.

Incentivized

• We're switching from microsoft to google and it has had a decently positive ROI due to reduced friction of figuring out and managing sharepoint
• The negative impact is that it does not do everything we need for product and design so we do have to supplement it with more specific software
• Another positive is that it has reduced the friction in easily creating and sharing PPTs during client-facing meetings making it easier for our bd, sales and product teams to make a positive impact on potential + current clients

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