Google Slides

Modified on Wed, 29 Jul at 12:25 AM

Integration Guide

Google Slides

A blank canvas for anything you want on the screens in your stations. Build a Google Slides presentation and it displays on your dashboards exactly as it looks in Slides — and anyone who can edit a slide deck can update it.

What we can put on your dashboard

Key features

Displays up to 10 slides per presentation by default
You control how many slides show and how long each stays up, from the Admin Panel
Run it full-screen, or half-screen alongside other content
Run several presentations at once, zoned to different screens — see below
Plenty of templates available to copy and adapt

What agencies actually use it for

Photos from a recent incident the department responded to
Headshots and short bios of newly hired staff and volunteers
Situational information the whole department needs to see at once

You can run more than one presentation

There is no need to squeeze everything into a single deck. Most departments run several, each pointed at the screens that need it — for example:

Department-wide

Everything everyone should see, on every screen.

EMS Ops

Content aimed at a single division rather than the whole department.

Training

Upcoming classes, drill notes, or anything the training officer maintains.

Per station

A deck belonging to one house, alongside whatever runs department-wide.

How to get a presentation added

We add each presentation for you. After that, day-to-day control is yours.

Decide who will maintain the deck

Either a single department-wide account that acts as the master, or individual accounts for each person who will update slides. A Gmail address works, and so does your own work address — Google’s guide to using an existing email address covers that option.

Open a ticket telling us two things

Raise it at our support center or email dashboards@firstarriving.com with:

The URL of the presentation
Where you want it to display — which devices or dashboards

Same process any time you want to add another presentation later.

Once it is live: managing timing yourself

As soon as a presentation is live you manage its timing yourself in the Admin Panel — how long each slide stays on screen and how many slides run. No ticket needed to change it.

Step-by-step instructions: Managing Google Slide timing on dashboards.

Example screens

A Google Slides presentation on a First Arriving dashboard

Want a hand setting up your first deck, or working out which presentations belong on which screens? Open a ticket at our support center or reach us at dashboards@firstarriving.com.