Two and a half years ago, I made an #EduGIF about adding timers to Google Slides using YouTube Videos and posted it on my site. Well, it’s time to introduce a new option.
Clay Smith is an educator in New York City. He’s also a talented coder. And that coding talent extends to gSuite Add-Ons and Chrome Extensions. The newest in his repertoire of projects is Slides Timer, an extension that makes certain text placeholders in Google Slides text boxes come to life as timers when in present mode.
As Clay’s site explains, the extension accepts 3 different placeholders:
- <<5:00->> will count down starting at 5 minutes.
- <<2:00+>> will count up starting at 2 minutes
- <<time>> will display the current time in AMPM format
Judging by the feedback form on Clay’s site, I’ll guess that this extension is still a work in progress. There are a few things that I’d change, if I could, but it’s already an awesome option as it is!
Check it out in the #EduGIF below!
