Showoff Presenter

Showoff is a slideshow presentation tool with a twist. It runs as a web application, with audience interactivity features. This means that your audience can follow along in their own browsers, can download supplemental materials, can participate in quizzes or polls, post questions for the presenter, etc. By default, their slideshows will synchronize with the presenter, but they can switch to self-navigation mode.

Showoff allows you to author your presentation slides in Markdown, then organize them with a showoff.json file. This file also contains metadata about the presentation, such as the title, any password protection, etc.

Then you just run showoff serve in the presentation directory and open a browser window.

AUTHORING

This page describes how to write slide files. Showoff has many extensions to plain old Markdown, and this page describes how to use them.

COMMANDLINE

Describes Showoff's command line interface.

CONFIGURATION

Details how to configure your keyboard hotkeys. This is most useful if you have a remote that maps buttons to different keys than expected.

FORMS

Learn about Showoff's form authoring extensions and write your own quizzes and polls directly in your presentation.

INSTALLATION

Installation instructions, or building your own gem.

INTERACTION

Describes the different ways you can interact with your audience.

PRESENTATION

Describes the showoff.json presentation definition file.

USAGE

Starting the Showoff server and the different URL endpoints available for use.