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Re: Running Large Group Facilitation at a Conference #facilitation #meetingdesign


 

I've participated in many events using Google Docs or Google Slides, and while they are very useful and fairly simple for users to maneuver, Google tends to get VERY bogged down with more than 30-40 people in one file and sometimes stops working altogether.? To work around that, I would suggest creating multiple Google Slide?files?(prepopulated with several slides and sticky notes), enough that each Google Slides file has only 30-ish people using it at any one time.? You'll want to have a Google Doc?as a reference with links.??The reference Google Doc could say something like this:

Based on the topic room that you're in, enter your information in the Google Slides file based on your last name.??
? ? ?Topic Room 1:? Use these Google Slides if your last name begins with ...
  • A-L [provide link]
  • M-Z [provide link]

? ? ?Topic Room 2: Use these Google Slides if your last name begins with ...
  • A-L [provide link]
  • M-Z [provide link]
Note that if you have, say, 100 people in a room, you'd want to have four Google Slides for that room.? So you could split the alphabet four ways (A-F, G-L, M-R, S-Z) and have four files, or however the split needs to be.

Then after everyone enters their insights in their room/alphabet file, you could give some time for them to browse the other files if they'd like.? Then you could harvest any themes using chat or 1.2.4.All, etc.

Hope that helps!

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