Google Slides Vocabulary

Annotations to slides used as reference by the presenter. They don't appear on the slide!

• Slide Sorter

• Speaker Notes

• Transition

Great way for you to view your presentation with your speaker notes on one computer while the audience views only your slide show.

• Slide View

• Slide Sorter View

• Presenter View

The overall design of all slides.

• Theme

• Layout

• Background

The arrangement of all the components that make up a slide.

• Theme

• Layout

• Background

Affects the way an element on a slide appears and/or disappears on a slide.

• animation

• transition

• theme

A single page in a presentation.

• slide show

• presentation

• slide

The tool on the left pane of the window used to select, move, and delete slides.

• Presenter View

• Slide Master

• Slide Sorter

Color or image added behind text, images, and other elements on slides.

• Background

• Theme

• Layout

Controls how the presentation changes from one slide to the next.

• Animation

• Transition

• After previous

When animations are triggered by as the user clicks the mouse.

• on click

• after previous

• with previous