Saggo for PowerPoint

Stay in your own deck. Saggo slides are inserted into your PowerPoint presentation, the room's phones follow your slideshow automatically, and the results move live on the slide while people vote.

  1. 1

    Build it in Saggo

    Create your presentation and interactive slides on make.saggo.app, polls, quizzes, Q&A, the whole catalog.

  2. 2

    Install the add-in

    Saggo needs BOTH files below: the panel (the Saggo button in the Home tab) and the live slides (what renders on the inserted slides). Download them into your Office add-ins folder and restart PowerPoint, or use the commands below, which install both automatically.

    ↓ Manifest 1: Saggo panel↓ Manifest 2: live slides (required)
  3. 3

    Connect once

    The add-in shows you a code and opens the approval page in your browser (if it doesn't, go to make.saggo.app/admin/link). Approve it from your Saggo account, you stay connected.

  4. 4

    Insert and present

    Pick your presentation, insert the slides and start the slideshow. The room joins with the code on the entry slide; as you advance through the deck, participants' phones follow your slides automatically, and bars, word clouds and rankings update live on the slide. Just make sure the presentation is started in Saggo (new ones are by default, otherwise press Start on the dashboard).

How do I install the manifest? (terminal commands)

On Mac

Run the command below in Terminal, it creates the add-ins folder and downloads the manifest straight into it. Then restart PowerPoint:

mkdir -p ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Powerpoint/Data/Documents/wef
curl -fsSL https://saggo.app/addin/manifest.xml -o ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Powerpoint/Data/Documents/wef/Saggo-PowerPoint.xml
curl -fsSL https://saggo.app/addin/manifest-poll.xml -o ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Powerpoint/Data/Documents/wef/Saggo-Poll.xml

On Windows

Run the commands below in PowerShell started as administrator, they create a shared folder and download the manifest into it:

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path C:\Saggo | Out-Null
New-SmbShare -Name Saggo -Path C:\Saggo -FullAccess $env:USERNAME
Invoke-WebRequest https://saggo.app/addin/manifest.xml -OutFile C:\Saggo\Saggo-PowerPoint.xml
Invoke-WebRequest https://saggo.app/addin/manifest-poll.xml -OutFile C:\Saggo\Saggo-Poll.xml

Then, in PowerPoint: File → Options → Trust Center → Trust Center Settings → Trusted Add-in Catalogs → add \\localhost\Saggo, tick “Show in Menu”, OK and restart PowerPoint. Open Home → Add-ins → Shared Folder (on older versions: Insert → My Add-ins) and add “Saggo Poll (live)” once, after that, inserted slides load on their own.

Requires PowerPoint desktop (Microsoft 365) on Mac or Windows.