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OpenRoom user manual

Instructions for preparing decks, presenting, teaching, participating, and managing shared work.

Getting started

Start your first session
Create a deck, present it, collect answers, and finish with Notes.

Workspace

Library, folders, and decks
Organize files, find material, manage copies, and recover items from Trash.
Share a space
Invite colleagues, set their roles, and manage access to shared decks and live sessions.

Prepare a deck

Edit and save a deck
Use the editor, manage draft changes and history, and resolve conflicting saves.
Slides, templates, and reveals
Build slide sequences, add detail slides, prepare timers, and control reveal order.
Questions and answer settings
Author questions, choose response formats, and control results, correctness, and timing.
Themes, masters, and brand kits
Set the deck's visual design and reuse shared colors, logos, fonts, and slide masters.
Pictures, audio, and embedded material
Add media and reading material, prepare listening activities, and make portable copies.

Teach and facilitate

Present, annotate, and explain
Navigate slides, use an audience screen, mark passages, and control listening and word lookup.
Run a live session
Manage participation, question state, results, remote control, and session recovery.
Q&A, groups, and co-facilitation
Moderate audience questions, collect shared group responses, and pass presenter control.

Participate

Join and participate
Enter a session, answer questions, ask the host, and recover your connection.
Your lessons, homework, and feedback
Use your personal link to read lesson outcomes, practise, submit work, and review feedback.

Teaching and follow-up

Students, groups, and classes
Keep teaching context beside the relevant decks and prepare material for a learner or class.
Issue and replace learner links
Give each learner private access to their work and preserve identity when replacing a link.
Write session Notes
Save outcomes and homework, keep teaching notes private, and record the next step.
Assign and revise homework
Prepare reading, writing, voice, and practice tasks for everyone or selected learners.
Review work and share feedback
Read original submissions, publish corrections and audio comments, and choose material to revisit.
Results, exports, and workshop recaps
Read saved responses, download data, and select material for a shareable recap.

Desktop and PowerPoint

OpenRoom Desktop and local files
Open, save, present, and synchronize portable .openroom decks.
Prepare a deck with a Desktop agent
Connect your own model account, attach source material, and review changes in the editor.
Use OpenRoom in PowerPoint
Embed OpenRoom slides, connect the task pane, rehearse, and run participation alongside a presentation.

Account and integrations

Account, billing, and connected apps
Manage sign-in, plan access, subscriptions, personal tokens, and external connections.
Connect an external agent
Author decks and manage your work through an MCP client using your OpenRoom account.
Command-line and file workflows
Validate files, revise cloud decks safely, control a session, and find the authoritative API contracts.

Reference

Privacy, retention, and limits
Check who can access each kind of material, how long it remains available, and the supported size limits.
Keyboard and accessible operation
Navigate the Library, editor, and presenter with the keyboard and choose a readable participant view.
Troubleshooting
Recover saves, participation, media, learner work, and integration connections.

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