Keynote over Zoom with 2 external monitors (MacOS)

Go to: Play > Play Slideshow in Window

This displays the presentation in a window that can be positioned and sized in the Zoom video conference software.

It can be done. I have just one external screen but I doubt this will change things.

I set Keynote to put slides on the second (audience)display and presenter notes on the presenter’s Mac. This is what I and I assume most people use for a talk where second screen would be a projector or whatever. (You do not need the "Play slideshow in a window", just the old "Play".) Start the talk and leave it on the first slide. The presenter screen is a full-screen desktop, Flick back to your Zoom window with 4-fingered swipe or Ctrl-arrow keys. Now bring up Zooms Share screen panel and choose “Desktop 2”. This is very quick as it is next to Desktop 1 which is preselected when you pull up the panel. Share. Desktop 2 is now shared but there is nothing on it (except desktop picture). Click on Keynote in the dock to go into the Presenter screen and the audience screen appears on Desktop 2. Proceed as normal. At the end on a blank finishing slide just stop screen sharing and you drop back to the Zoom window.

Also, customise the layout of the presenter screen to have the notes at the very top i.e. just under the camera so you are close to looking straight at the camera/audience.

"Play slideshow in window" for me results in a single slideshow window presentation, so no second moderator window showing notes is generated.

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in Keynote Go to: Play > Play Slideshow in Window

This displays the presentation in a window that can be positioned and sized in the Zoom video conference software.

I have the very same principle question, only for BigBlueButton (BBB) rather than Zoom (should not make a difference).

Keynote appears to occupy all three screens full size: 1. slide show, 2. presenter view (moderator screen) and 3. an unnecessary third screen with slide notes only, where notes are already accessible on the moderator screen. So the third keynote screen is completely redundant. On top, none of these windows can be resized. So the browser with BBB/Zoom cannot be accessed.

With widespread online teaching since corona started, there got to be a solution. Anybody ?

OK, at least a workaround.

Export your keynote presentation in PowerPoint format (pptx). Open file.pptx using LibreOffice. In LO Tab Slide show, slide show settings click Presentation mode "in a window". In LO settings for Impress, general, set "enable presenter console". Than share the respective screen in BBB.

Another workaround is "export as pdf" in keynote, upload in BBB as PDF rather than sharing your screen. Run keynote in another window. Snag is, to move forward, you have to move the mouse over two screens and click twice.

I assume from your description that you have a seperate file with speaker notes. Why do you not put your notes with each side and then customise Presenter view to have your notes as well? Then you only need one external screen. Or have I not understood correctly?

See my solution (14 Oct.) for how to have have Zoom show your presenter notes while the audience see the slides.

I need the browser window accessible all the time during the presentation, since for instance students may raise their hands or come up with a question and I need to see the name of who is asking or what else is going on in the BBB/Zoom conference room. Can that be done ?

Right now, Keynote always seems to take control over all screens or, with "Play slideshow in window" enabled, the moderator window is lacking.

I have a co-host with her own Zoom screen looking after this for me. However she can't see many of the participants down the side of the shared screen so this is a problem. Also while going through the Keynote I can't see the audience reactions.

Because I have severe hearing loss we get participants to use the Chat facility for any questions.

This online teaching is a challenge over and above the normal.

Yes it does that's why you need a second monitor connected exactly as if you were doing a live lecture and just use Play. Zoom audience gets exactly what live audience would and you have presenter screen as normal.