Presenting to a circle

A board can go on your learners’ own screens rather than through a shared window: you move, and their slide moves. They can raise a hand, answer a quick check and chat, but they cannot change anything. This is how you start one, what a learner sees, and the handful of things that are deliberately not part of it.

First: there are two buttons called Present

• Present — the red button — Full screen on your own machine. Arrow keys, Space or PageDown to move; Escape or the faded *Exit* chip to come back. This is the one to use when you are sharing your screen in a call. It publishes nothing to anyone.
• Present to — the one beside Share — Puts the deck live in one of your circles. Everyone following sees the slide you are on. This is the one that needs a circle.

They combine: press *Present to* first to put the lesson live, then the red *Present* for full screen if you also want the slide filling your own display. Leaving full screen does not end the lesson, and ending the lesson does not leave full screen.

Starting a live lesson

1. Sign in, and make sure the board is saved — A board built signed out lives in your browser and has nothing to present — the button does not appear at all.
2. Press “Present to” — The popup lists the circles you can present to: the ones you teach, plus any Buddy Circle you are in. Nothing else is offered.
3. Pick the circle — The lesson goes live immediately. The header button changes to Presenting, and Hands and Chat appear beside it.
4. Teach — Move between slides however you like — the filmstrip, the pager, the keyboard, full screen. Every follower’s screen follows within a moment.
5. Stop when you are done — Reopen the popup and press Stop presenting. Every raised hand comes down, followers see *Not presenting*, and the content grant ends in the same act.

What a learner sees

They open the banner and land on a stripped-down view: the lesson’s title and goal in a thin header, the slide filling the page, and a badge reading In step. No rail, no library, no pen, no settings.

• Raise hand — One button in their header. It turns amber and reads Hand up. You see the queue in the order people asked, with a way to lower one or all of them.
• Answer a Quick check — They tap an option on the slide. You decide whether the room sees the tally as it comes in or only once you press the eye. It is counts only — never who voted for what.
• Chat — The circle’s own chat, in a panel beside the slide.
• Look around on their own — A learner can page back without leaving — the badge changes to Browsing on your own, and Rejoin the lesson snaps them back to you.
• Full screen — Their own control, on their own machine.

What they cannot do is change anything: no drawing, no moving a card, no editing, no adding, and no taking over the presentation. In a taught circle, presenting is yours alone. The one exception is a Buddy Circle — two people, no teacher — where either may present their own board.

Paid content during your lesson

Cards on a slide point at real content and open according to each viewer’s own access — so a free learner would normally see *“Included with Pro”* where your lesson text is.

While you are presenting, your own seat covers the room: if you hold a paid teaching seat and you run that circle, the specific cards on the deck you are presenting open for the members watching, for as long as the lesson is live. It is deliberately narrow — this deck, these cards, this lesson. A passage someone asks about on the side is not covered, nothing changes on their account, and it ends when you press Stop presenting.

What presenting is not

• Not a video call — No camera, no microphone, no recording, no screen streaming. Keep using the call software you already use — this replaces the shared whiteboard, not the call.
• No laser pointer or shared cursor — Your class sees the slide you are on, not where your mouse is. To point at something, put an arrow Shape on the slide — it can be moved and resized, unlike a scribble.
• Ink does not arrive live — Drawing on a slide during a lesson does not appear on their screens stroke by stroke; it reaches them when the slide is saved, a moment later. Draw it before, or accept the delay.
• No attendance list — Neither of you is told who is watching. You see a queue of raised hands and a poll denominator built from the roster, not from who is actually present.
• You cannot present to a link — Live presenting is to a circle, and only to a circle. For an audience without one, send an unlisted link — which shows the deck but does not follow you.
• Lesson Flow stays with you — Your plan and its clock are never sent to learners.