Features
Beyond the standard presentation functionality, Showoff provides:
- Live presenter tools:
- presenter view that display notes, tree representation of presentation, and other tools
- execute code in many languages (Javascript, Ruby, Python, Puppet, etc) live and display results
- show a pre-show slideshow while you wait to start
- let audience members download slides, code samples or other supplementary material
- show a countdown timer to help keep you on pace.
- show synchronized, hidden notes on another browser (like an iphone)
- Live audience tools:
- audience can pull up the presentation on their own browsers
- presentation is synchronized to track the presenter’s
- call up a menu of sections/slides at any time to navigate directly to slides
- independent navigation so that audience members can go back or catch up as you talk
- allow the audience to provide pace feedback and ask questions of the presenter
- allow the audience to provide content feedback on the material
- Content creation and distribution functionality:
- generate supplemental material based on slide tags
- generate printed versions of the presentation including handout notes
- password protect any URL path to keep control over different views of content
- automatically generate a Table of Contents
- provide buttons for one-click issue reporting for presentation materials
- open the current slide in a Markdown editor
- open the current slide in an online editor such as Github’s repository editor
- track how much time audience members spend on specific slides
- generate a static form of the presentation and upload it to Github Pages
- generate a Heroku app to serve your presentation from
- automatically generate presentations from an outline
Due to it being plain text, you can easily version control it, you can easily move sections between presentations, and you can rearrange or remove sections easily.