iPad Tutorials: Keynote App for iPadOS

Create professional-looking presentations that include animations, images, audio files, text, and videos. Presentations can be made to be interactive or exported as movies.

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Keynote Overview

• Keynote User Guide for iPad–Apple Support
• Keyboard Shortcuts–Apple Support
• 30 Days of Keynote—Megan Ryder

Adding Mathematical Equations

• Add mathematical equations–Apple Support
• Video: Add mathematical equations–EUSD (YouTube)
• Shortcut Key: Insert Equation–Option-Command-E

Animating Objects and Slides

• Shortcut Key: Show Animations and Builds–Option-Command-A

Slides (Transitions)

• Add transitions–Apple Support
• Magic Move
  • Add a Magic Move transition–Apple Support
  • Video: Use Magic Move To Animate In Keynote–LCP Digital Learning (YouTube)

Objects (animations & Builds)

• Animate objects onto and off of a slide (Build Ins & Build Outs)–Apple Support
• Animate objects on a slide–Apple Support
• Video: Animate objects onto and off a slide (Build in & Build out)–EUSD (YouTube)
• Video: Battery Charging (Build In/Build Out)–EUSD (YouTube)
• Video: Flying Butterfly (Motion Path & Jiggle)–EUSD (YouTube)
• Video: Rolling Ball (Motion Path & Rotate)–EUSD (YouTube)
• Video: Falling Dominoes (Motion Path & Rotate)–EUSD (YouTube)

• Video: Duck Swimming Away (Motion Path & Scale)–EUSD (YouTube)
• Video: Motion Path Animation On iPad–David Williams (YouTube)

Audio & Video

• Add Video and Audio to a Slide–Apple Support
• Video: Recording Audio in Keynote–EUSD (YouTube)
• Video: Add a GarageBand Song to a Keynote Slide–EUSD (YouTube)

Changing to Another Language

• Enter text in another language–Apple Support

Drawing

• Add and Edit Drawings–Apple Support 
• Video: Drawing Tools in Keynote–Paul Hamilton (YouTube)
• Video: Drawing a Self Portrait–Tricia Fuglestad (Vimeo)
• Video: Drawing Characters Using Only the Paint Tool–EUSD (YouTube)
• Animate a Line Drawing–EUSD
• How to Create Biography Sketches on an iPad–EUSD
• Additional Drawing Tutorials–EUSD
• Video: Drawing animation on Keynote with iPad–Joyce Zerda (YouTube)
• Video: Synchronize Line Drawing Animation and Audio–EUSD (YouTube)

Edit an Image

• Mask (crop)
  • Mask (crop) a photo–Apple Support
  • Video: Mask (crop) a photo–EUSD (YouTube)
• Instant Alpha
  • Instant Alpha (Remove background and other elements from a photo)–Apple Support
  • Video: Instant Alpha–EUSD (YouTube)

Exporting/Sharing

• AirDrop  – Students must be enrolled in your Apple Classroom
• Video: How to create an animated GIF in Keynote on iPad–Apple Support (YouTube)
• Export as a movie file–EUSD
  (This works well when you want to submit to Google Classroom, Seesaw, and ClassDojo.)
• Export as a PDF–Apple Support
  (This works well if there is no animation, audio, or video)

Links – Interactive Presentations

• Add links to text and objects–Apple Support
• Making the presentation “links only”–Apple Support
• Checklist for Interactive Keynotes–EUSD

Play Presentations

• Draw on a slide as you present–Apple Support
• Mirroring (Airplay)–EUSD
• Present on your iPad–Apple Support

Presenter Notes

• Add and view presenter notes–Apple Support

• Rehearse on your device–Apple Support
• Shortcut Key: Show or hide presenter notes–Shift-Command-P

Shapes

• Combine or break apart shapes–Apple Support
• Video: Using the Subtraction Tool–EUSD (YouTube)

Text

• Change the look of text–Apple Support
• Video: Changing the look of text in Keynote–EUSD (YouTube)
• Add mathematical equations to your document–Apple Support

Google Slides

• Download a Google Slides Presentation into Keynote–EUSD

Keynote Templates

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Keynote Live

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