Add-ons for Google Slides

1. PearDeck

Turn your Slides into formative assessments and add interactive questions to your presentations with the Pear Deck add-on.

Also check out 20 ways to use Pear Deck to engage students to learn more about how to use this awesome tool with your class.

2. Noun Project

Add icons directly to your presentations without ever leaving Google Slides!

Visit 10 ways icons from The Noun Project can impact learning for more ideas.

3. Magic Rainbow Unicorn

Have you ever wanted a way to add the rainbow colors to all of your text without needing to individually change each letter? Well look no futher! The Magic Rainbow Unicorn add-on does it for you!

4. Insert Icons for Slides

Over 1,800 icons available to add directly into your Google Slides presentation.

5. Slide Randomizer

If you use Google Slides as flashcards or just want to switch things up in a presentation you can use slides randomizer to automatically shuffle your slide deck.

6. Animated GIFs

Animated GIFs make our presentations fun and engaging. Since the original publishing of this post the GIF add-on mentioned here has been removed. However adding GIFs to your presentation is easy to do. Kasey Bell of Shake Up Learning has a great post on how to do it "How to Insert Super Cool GIFs in Google Docs and Slides" or try talltweets.com to turn your Google Slides into animated GIFs.

7. Icons from Flaticon

Flaticon's add-on gives you free access to TONS of icons for your presentations (or docs or forms or sheets!).

8. Nearpod

Deliver the magic of Nearpod to any Google Slides presentation. With Nearpod, students have the ability to participate in lessons that contain virtual reality, 3D objects, and so much more.

9. Unsplash

With this add-on you can add the entire Unsplash library of curated high-resolution photos directly in Google Slides for your presentations.

10. Clipboard History Pro

If you find yourself copying and pasting information a lot then Clipboard History Pro is a great extension to add. Manage your clipboard history, access favorite clips and even send clipboard items to your smartphone.

11. EquatIO

Use this extenstion to easily create mathematical equations or formulas quickly and easily.

12. Fireshot

Look over student work, grab screenshots of samples to discuss, stick them on slides. Use Fireshot as a quick and easy way to share feedback with the class.

13. Color Pick Eye Dropper

Sometimes we want to use the EXACT color we found on a website or in a picture online. Use the Color Pick Eye Dropper to find the color values you want to replicate.

14. Bitmoji

Bitmojis are so fun! They’re these little cartoon character images of yourself that let you express emotions and communicate. Use the Bitmoji Chrome extension to add these stickers to your slides for some added engagement.

15. Pear Deck Power-Up 

The Pear Deck Power-Up extension makes sure that videos, animations, and GIFs embedded in your Pear Deck slides play at full resolution.

16. Sir Links-A-Lot

If you like to change your Google Slides URLs to make it easy to share a forced copy, template, preview or PDF then the Sir Links-A-Lot extension will save you TONS of time!

17. Screencastify

Screencasting and sharing has never been easier and now all of the Pro features of the Screencastify chrome extension are completely FREE!

18. Remote for Slides

Get the ability to control Google Slides on any device, remotely. That's it. No fancy hardware. No extra remote to remember. It's as easy as adding this Chrome extension.

19. Tab Carousel

After students have completed an assignment in Google Sides you can open up each presentation in a separate tab and use Tab Carousel to automatically cycle through each tab to showcase student work.

20. Poll Everywhere

Poll your class or audience anytime. Choose from a variety of activity types, insert them into your decks, and watch results as they come in on the screen — all within Google Slides.