Creating Presentations

Presentations are the core of Chapel Screen. Each presentation is a rich text document that you edit in the browser and project live to your audience.

Creating a Presentation

Click New Presentation on the Presentations page — your own, or a team's to create it for that team. Chapel Screen asks for its name first (at least 2 characters); type it and press Enter or Create Presentation, and the presentation opens in the editor under that name. Cancel creates nothing. You can rename it later in the presentation's settings.

The Editor

When you create or open a presentation, you'll see the editor. It works like a familiar word processor — type your content, and use the toolbar to apply formatting.

The editor supports:

Bold, italic, and underline text
Headings (multiple levels)
Bullet and numbered lists
Tables
Text alignment (left, centre, right, justify)
Superscript
Blockquotes
Images
Videos

Everything you type is saved automatically and synced in real time. If you're working with a team, you'll see their changes appear as they type, complete with coloured cursors showing who's editing where.

The presentation editor with formatted content — The editor with formatted text — bold, headings, and more

Inserting Bible Passages and Songs

Searching for a passage or a song and inserting it, formatted, has a page of its own: Inserting Bible Passages and Songs.

Understanding Presentation Points

Presentation points are the navigation points in your presentation. When you present to an audience, you step through your content one point at a time — much like advancing slides, but more fluid.

Chapel Screen creates presentation points automatically from your text. Each sentence becomes a point, so your content flows naturally without needing to manually split it into slides.

You can also mark certain points as skip points. Skipped points still appear on screen, but the presenter won't pause on them — the content is visible as part of the surrounding context, but the controller jumps past them during navigation.

Page Breaks

Page breaks control how your content is divided into visual slides. There are two types:

Soft page breaks — suggest a good place to split content. In individual display mode, the layout engine uses these as natural break points when content overflows the screen. In block mode, every soft break creates a new slide.
Hard page breaks — always force a new slide, regardless of display mode.

Insert page breaks from the editor toolbar when you want explicit control over slide boundaries.

The editor formatting toolbar — The toolbar — formatting, page breaks, and display options

Special Elements

Images, videos, QR codes, countdown timers, tables, slide headers and footers and blank slides have a page of their own: Special Elements.

Presentation Settings

The name, the theme, the display options, sharing and privacy have a page of their own: Presentation Settings.

Deleting a Presentation

Only the owner of a presentation can delete it. When you delete a presentation, it's also removed from any events that include it. This action cannot be undone.