Prezi - Presentation Software with a Dizzying Perspective
February 29, 2020
Prezi - Presentation Software with a Dizzying Perspective
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Prezi
Prezi is used by my department, which is Academic Support and Career Counseling in the School of Medicine. It is also used by some other similar departments in other divisions, like the School of Nursing and School of Health Professions academic support programs. It is used for live or recorded presentations in things like study methods, time management, test strategy, and stress management.
- Keeps the watcher(s) engaged.
- Limits text to desirable key words/phrases because of the layout.
- Includes a lot of stock images that can be used in presentations, but allows upload of own images, as well.
- Many of the templates are programmed with too much movement zooming in and out, which can induce vertigo or headaches. Must be prepared to manually alter as needed.
- The user interface is not necessarily intuitive. I too frequently have had to search for help with functions that I feel I should be able to figure out myself based on the layout/interface (functions I already use in other programs and they're easy to find).
- It does not cooperate well with embedded audience participation systems, such as Polleverywhere.
- Students like the view MUCH better than power points.
- An affordable cloud-based alternative for easy shared team access and creation of presentations.
Canva does not include animations (including the ability for individual elements within a "slide" to appear as you click rather than all at once). Canva has lots of very modern punchy formats in templates or design-your-own options to create colorful, easy-to-follow infographics, etc. Many people think Canva is for designing a single marketing piece, label, or social media post; in a single creation, you can add multiple "pages" or "slides" to form a presentation. Canva's free version includes all the basic features needed to create a good presentation and to share via a link or open it to editing by other users. The pro versions include more images and file download formats.
Do you think Prezi delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Prezi's feature set?
Yes
Did Prezi live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Prezi go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Prezi again?
Yes