Google Slides Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it to build presentations to share research findings with my stakeholders. I also use it to prepare workshops and highlight what I learned in courses or conferences, and to share them with my department. However, it is also useful for me to summarize and organize lots of information. Organizing information in slides forces me to include only the essential bits in a skimmable format.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well-suited for simple presentations, from an animation and visual standpoint, although this is improving with the new AI features. However, if you want more visually appealing, modern-looking presentations, it is not well-suited. Nonetheless, from my work experience so far, it fits my use cases perfectly, namely, presentations to share research findings.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Slides for internal and occasionally for external presentations. I sometimes use Google Slides to more creatively and intuitively create graphs, charts, graphics, and tables, since I like that you can move elements more flexibly than you can in a document. Presentations help visualize information, which we use internally for company goal setting, and externally for client and partner presentations.

Likelihood to Recommend

I'd recommend Google Slides for someone who uses the Google Suite, as Google Sheets integration is nice. It's intuitive and can be easy and quick to throw together a Slides presentation when needed. Google Slides is nice for simple presentations, with enough functionality to become client-ready and professional enough for external use. However, it tends to produce simpler presentations, with limited built-in templates that are easily identifiable, so they don't have a very creative, sophisticated 'wow factor'. The same goes for the transitions, as they're easily identifiable and simple.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Slides for all kinds of presentations, from proposals to workshops and internal training sessions, but aside from traditional presentations, Google Slides has also become useful for publishing calendars, organograms, and other internal reference materials that need to be easily shared, updated, and accessed by different teams across the organization.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google slide sis very well suited for collaborative work, internal presentations, workshops, and any scenario where multiple people need to edit, comment, and share content quickly. Not so appropriate for highly polished or heavily animated or designed presentations, or other kinds of situations where advanced animations are required, and also not great on offline performance with large decks

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Slides in my department to present data and metrics, provide status reports, and track our projects. While Slides can do the job, it could be more intuitive and functional for manipulating slide content.

Likelihood to Recommend

Slides is a great tool to share information with peers and for presenting and facilitating in-person, online, and hybrid meetings. Since it is not an interactive tool, I would not recommend Slides for gathering feedback or group activities.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I primarily use Google Slides within my organization to create sales presentations. We use sales presentations to provide prospects with more information about our company and to describe our services and pricing. Since we show it to clients on sales calls, we use our presentations to convert leads into full-time paying clients.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Slides is very appropriate for presenting information when you need to do so quickly or for creating something on a short timeline. It’s great for sales calls, internal company meetings, and reports. It might be less appropriate in situations where you do not need a slide-based presentation, such as regular communication with coworkers.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Slides to design PowerPoint presentations with images, GIFs, videos, and text (written) content for social media clients. This helps us show the visual and text components in the same place. We can also make and view edits in real time. We also rely on the comment and mention features.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Slides is well-suited as a free tool for making presentations, since you do not need a subscription, unlike Microsoft. It is also housed in Google Drive, making it a great tool for organizations that share files in Google. It is not a great choice if you're displaying a lot of videos or GIFs.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a pastor, I preach every week to large groups of people. Most Sundays I preach to a room of around 75-80 adults, and Google Slides helps me convey my main points effectively to my audience, as well as feature significant quote and pictures to assist with getting my point across. In short, Google Slides has helped me become an increasingly effective communicator and public speaker.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Slides is perfectly suited to any scenario in which an individual is tasked to speak to a large group of people. Any time such an individual needs to present an outline, or a quotation, or an image to a public audience, I would absolutely recommend that they use Google Slides. In contrast, however, if someone was leading a table discussion or small group discussion, or particularly if they were having a one-on-one meeting, I would not necessarily recommend that they use Google Slides in those particular scenarios.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Slides served as a central platform to collaborate on and organize internal presentations. It was used to share meeting content on a recurring basis, helping to consolidate communication, facilitate discussion through comments, and maintain version control of edits. Since the team was fully remote, cross-location and cross-timezone collaboration was seamless, with deeper discussions managed through comment threads. Overall, it made team-wide meetings more productive by giving people a chance to review materials and address comments ahead of calls.

Likelihood to Recommend

Team collaboration, managing version control (where losing content is a major concern). Collaboration across organizations, or navigation collaboration between apple/windows users.

Less appropriate might be where expectations are to present a more pollished presentation (high fidelity design). Leveraging multi media tools (incorporating videos) as well as the need for offline access.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Google Slides daily in my current role. We leverage the tool to create slide decks and training documentation. The presentations are then used in training, internal use as well as customer facing presentations. The slide decks are a way to better communicate a large amount of information in an easy to understand way.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Slides is absolutely essential to our business driving both sales deck and production documentation.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you’re stuck with Google Slides it’s better than dealing with non-collaborative tools