I am one that needs my notes in front of me when I present. Whether I look at them or not, it makes me feel more secure if they are there.
I have been doing a lot of presentations on Zoom using Keynote. In order to see my notes, I have had to use two monitors. Of course, when I push Play in Keynote in real life, I see my notes and the audience sees the presentation on the "big screen".
In Zoom, I share the window of the the external monitor, that has the presentation showing, with the audience and I see my notes in front of me. I do see my video and can open the chat if I need to. However, there are sometimes problems directing the audio so both the audience and I can hear me speaking and any video sound.
I finally have come up with a one-computer solution to the problem!
Here are the instructions followed by screenshots.
WHAT TO SET-UP IN ZOOM
- Open or join a Zoom meeting.
- Pick SHARE SCREEN and tap the ADVANCED tab.
- Pick PORTION OF SCREEN. Stay on that ADVANCED tab.
- In the bottom left corner of the ADVANCED tab, check SHARE SOUND and OPTIMIZE FOR VIDEO CLIP.
- Hit SHARE in the bottom right. Don't worry (yet) about the green frame that shows up.
- Open your Keynote presentation.
- Pick PLAY - CUSTOMIZE PRESENTER DISPLAY.
- Move things around on the screen to allow you to both see your notes and make the current slide as large as possible.
- Move the Zoom green frame over the current slide and resize the green frame by dragging the handles
- Close the PRESENTER DISPLAY.
- This time, pick PLAY - REHEARSE SLIDESHOW and you will see the Zoom CONTROLS (and you can open the Zoom chat) and your notes. The audience sees only the slides in the green frame.
- Any videos play and you can open the slide navigator if you need to.