Building a content slide
Not every slide needs to ask a question. Content slides carry the narrative between the interactive moments — headings, images, video, whatever context your audience needs before you ask them something.
Think of Content slides as the connective tissue of a deck. A cold open of five Select Answer questions in a row feels like an interrogation; a Content slide between them gives you room to explain why the next question matters, show a chart, or just let people catch their breath before the next round of points is on the line. They're also where you'll put a title slide, a section break, an agenda, or a closing "thank you" — anything that's meant to be read or watched rather than responded to.
Because a Content slide has no scoring and no response type attached, it's the most flexible slide in the library — closer to a slide in a traditional deck than to anything else in Slidea. If you're not sure which slide type to reach for and the goal is simply "show the audience something," start here. If you find yourself wanting to collect a reaction to what's on the slide — even an ungraded one — that's the cue to add a Quiz or Interaction slide right after it instead of trying to make the Content slide do both jobs.
If you already have the words but not the layout, Create with AI can turn pasted text or a short prompt into a formatted Content slide in one step — useful for turning meeting notes or a script outline into something presentable without starting from a blank canvas.
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Add a Content slide
Select New Slide and choose Content from the slide type list.
Coming Soon · ScreenshotThe New Slide panel open, with Content highlighted among the Content & Import slide types and a blank canvas visible behind it.
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Add your first text block
Click anywhere on the empty canvas and choose a heading or body block — text appears exactly where you clicked, ready to type into.
Coming Soon · ScreenshotA click on an empty canvas producing a text-block insertion menu with heading and body options.
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Drop in images, video, or other media
The on-canvas toolbar adds images, shapes, icons, links, and embedded video — drag any of them into position once they're placed.
Coming Soon · ScreenshotThe on-canvas toolbar expanded to show its image, shape, icon, link, and video options above a slide mid-edit.
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Arrange and layer elements
Drag to reposition, resize from the corner handles, and use the layer controls to bring an element in front of or behind another.
Coming Soon · ScreenshotTwo overlapping elements on a slide with resize handles visible and a right-click layering menu open.
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Match your look with styling controls
Select anything on the slide and use the Edit panel to change its font, size, color, or alignment.
Coming Soon · ScreenshotThe Edit panel open beside a selected heading, showing font, size, color, and alignment controls.
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Preview before you move on
Step through the deck in preview mode to confirm the slide reads well at presentation size before you add the next slide.
If you already have the text somewhere — a paragraph, a script, a set of notes — Create with AI can turn it into a formatted Content slide instead of you laying it out block by block.
Content slides display information only. To collect input, add a slide from Scored Quiz Slides or Brainstorming & Interactive Slides instead.
Frequently asked questions
Can a Content slide collect any kind of response?
No. Content slides have no response type at all, so nothing an audience does on one is recorded. If you want a reaction — even an ungraded one — add a Quiz or Interaction slide right after it.
How is this different from the Instructions slide?
The Instructions slide has one job: showing the join code and QR code so people can get into the session. A Content slide is general-purpose — use it for anything else you want to display, including a welcome message once everyone's already joined.
Can I reuse a Content slide's layout across a deck?
Duplicate the slide from the slide list and edit the copy — duplicating preserves the layout, styling, and any media placement, so you only need to swap the text or image.
Is there a limit to how much media I can add to one slide?
There's no fixed limit, but a slide crowded with several images and text blocks gets hard to read at presentation size — as a rule of thumb, keep one Content slide to one idea.