Create and Share Confidence Monitors with NextSlide

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the confidence monitor options available with NextSlide and how to set them up.

Confidence monitors are essential tools for presenters, displaying key details like the current slide, upcoming slides, or speaker notes—information the audience can’t see but that helps keep the presenter on track. By having a clear view of what’s coming next and key talking points, presenters can focus more on engaging with their audience, minimizing the risk of getting lost or off-script.

Traditionally, setting up confidence monitors requires juggling multiple sources to display slides, notes, and timing cues, which can be difficult to manage and keep in sync. Presenters often struggle with different displays updating at different times, leading to confusion and disruptions.

With NextSlide, we make it simple. You can easily configure custom confidence monitors on any device—whether it’s a tablet, laptop, or larger screen—and everything stays perfectly in sync. You can also mirror these devices to additional screens, so presenters can view their notes or slides on confidence monitors positioned around the stage or venue. This ensures that no matter where your presenters are, they’ll have the key information they need at their fingertips, fully synced in real time.

NextSlide consolidates the current slide, upcoming slide, and speaker notes into one system, ensuring presenters always see the right content in real time. This allows them to maintain control, timing, and confidence throughout the entire presentation, delivering a seamless, professional experience.

Log into NextSlide, and click the event you want to create confidence monitors for

When you open your event, you should see a page similar to this, depending on which tier you are on.

This view allows you to view and control the presentation, and access your presenter and confidence monitor links

To get your links, click the 3 dot menu at the top right, and there will be a dropdown.

Select “Share” and you’ll see a new window pop up with your share link options.

Here you can grab links for:

• Presenters: Control the presentation, see active/next slide + notes
• Active Slide: Shows you the active slide, no control
• Next Slide: Shows you the next slide, no control*
• Notes: Shows you the active slide’s notes, no control*

*not available in the free tier

You can also turn password protection for all links on or off, and you can delete and create new links if needed. Anyone using an old link will immediately lose access to the presentation.

Click the copy button beside the link, and email or text it to your presenters. They will all use the same link and password, and will share control.

Option 1: Share these links directly with your presenters. They can open them on their devices— a tablet, laptop, or desktop—and use those devices as confidence monitors. Each presenter can choose which view they prefer (active slide, next slide, or notes).

Option 2: For larger events with multiple screens, you may want to mirror confidence monitors on several displays to provide better visibility for your presenters.

1. Open the browser links for the confidence monitors (active slide, next slide, or notes) on your laptop.
2. Connect your laptop to multiple external screens using HDMI or another connection method.
   • Depending on your device’s capabilities, you can mirror one laptop to multiple screens, or use multiple devices connected to separate screens.
3. Drag and place different browser windows onto each screen. For example, display the active slide on one screen and speaker notes on another.
4. Switch to full-screen mode for each browser window to ensure the presenter sees only the content you want, with no distractions.

Remember, you can combine these options as well – the presenter can be on stage with an iPad, with traditional confidence monitors placed around the venue.

No matter how many screens or devices you use, NextSlide will keep everything in perfect sync, ensuring your presenters always have the most up-to-date information.