For learning and development teams at large professional services firms, the same challenge comes up again and again: how do you turn dense, compliance-heavy material into something people actually remember? That question resonates daily with Janna, a senior manager with the Quality, Professional Development team at Canadian accounting and advisory firm, MNP. She and her team build bilingual (English and French) internal assurance training for a national audience.
Janna sat down with the Prezi team for a candid conversation about her experience so far. She shared a clear picture of how Prezi’s engagement tools are inspiring her to reshape the way her team approaches virtual and self-paced training, and where the roadmap is headed next to support her even further.
Moving beyond "a block of text"
Janna’s team builds a mix of content, including instructor-led training, e-learnings, short micro-learning modules, and self-serve resources that employees can revisit on their own. Most of it lives in MNP’s learning management system and traditional e-learning tools.
The common thread in everything Janna described was a desire for more engagement.
“We need content that is more interesting than a block of text,” she said.
Gamification is something that her team tries to incorporate into training, and Prezi's spatial, click-through format has already inspired new possibilities for her team. She wants to design a gamified warehouse inventory training where learners click on shelves and boxes to inspect inventory, spot damage, and interact with a character through pop-up dialogue, all self-paced, to mimic a real-life inventory count. It’s the kind of scenario-based learning that’s difficult to build in a traditional slide deck but comes naturally in Prezi.
Quizzes and polls that put her in control
Live audience engagement, polls, quizzes, and real-time answer results were an area where Janna lit up. Prezi’s poll feature appears directly alongside the content, and results can be shown through visual representations over multiple data points, like a heat map. The responses change the visualization, updating it live in front of the room, which is something their current platform cannot do. While live results can currently be received from a poll question, it only shows the percentage of who voted for what response for a single question.
What made the AI-generated quiz feature land well with her, specifically, was the control it offers on top of the automation. Prezi will build a quiz automatically from a presentation’s content, but the user can then edit the questions and the answers as needed. Accounting standards are complex, and subtle changes can cause the information to be incorrect. Having the ability to create a quiz from scratch, or to modify the AI-generated quiz, was an important feature to Janna. This ability is essential to ensure that each participant has the same, technically correct content.
Narration and audio that she can fine-tune
Because MNP’s content must exist in both English and French, and on-camera or voiceover talent is scarce, Prezi’s auto-generated narration and podcast features stood out as a way to scale content production without leaning on the same one or two people every time. Janna can see Prezi being used to create engaging training content that can be turned into videos that team members can watch on their own time.
Janna was clear that the ability to review and adjust a script before anything goes live is what would make this a real solution for her team, not just a shortcut. Janna noted “People like to learn in different ways. Sometimes they want visuals, and sometimes they just want to listen. It is important to us that training resources have the same narration every single time, so that we can ensure it is technically correct and addresses all areas as needed. We also need to make sure it is pronouncing words and acronyms correctly and is not distracting the participant from learning the content.”
A presenter view built for engagement and interaction
One of the challenges with virtual training is keeping presentations engaging when the format can easily feel static: a shared PowerPoint deck, a facilitator speaking over the slides, and a small camera tile off to the side. Prezi’s Newscaster or Camera mode offers a potential solution by keeping the presenter visible alongside the content rather than shrinking them into the corner of the screen. Anyone can view the window, with no separate tool or signup needed, making it easy to see how this could be incorporated into future virtual training sessions or webinars.
For a team that runs its virtual sessions over Teams, where the current norm is a shared PowerPoint window with a small video tile of the presenter, this stood out to Janna as a way to make presentations feel more dynamic and connected to the learner experience. “We do a lot of virtual training,” she said. “Right now, the facilitator shares a PowerPoint on their screen and talks through it, with their camera shared in a box. If they could have it like this, where it is more engaging and interactive, I think it could enhance the learner’s experience.”
Janna also sees potential for pre-recorded sessions, where keeping a presenter front and center could help sustain audience attention and create a stronger sense of connection than a voiceover or slide-only recording.
Turning one presentation into a standalone learning tool
Perhaps the most exciting discovery of the conversation was a feature that turns a presentation into a clickable, self-contained application, one Janna immediately saw fresh potential in. Not only could she use it as a follow-up resource after a live session to reinforce specific concepts, she could also see it being used as an activity during instructor-led training to enhance interactivity with the audience.
Analytics that connect back to her existing systems
Janna was also encouraged by Prezi’s viewer tracking, which captures engagement per link and can identify individual learners when a session requires a name or email at entry.
For her team, the real value is in what happens after the data is collected: understanding drop-off points, time spent per section, and how people performed on embedded quiz questions. This is information her instructional designers already look for in their learning management system. Currently, this data cannot be tracked during live sessions, and the ability to do this with Prezi’s built-in tools is something Janna thinks can further her team’s understanding of how team members interact with training.
Learning that this kind of reporting could potentially be exported into MNP’s existing learning management system encouraged Janna to work with Prezi on shaping their reporting to align with her team’s existing workflow.
Working with Prezi
When asked what else has stood out about her experience so far, Janna said she has been genuinely impressed by how open and responsive the Prezi team has been. “It is rare to have a company reach out to users in this way, really listen to what they are saying, and then immediately respond by designing features that work exactly the way users need them to,” she said. “The team has been incredibly receptive to my feedback, including a list of quality-of-life updates that they have already passed along to their developers. The Prezi team has been open to hearing what would make the tool more useful in a real training environment, and their willingness to take those ideas seriously has made the experience feel unusually collaborative. I was surprised to find that some of my direct suggestions have already been implemented just weeks after our conversation. Overall, it has been a positive experience, and I am excited to see what other new features Prezi will come up with.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How is Prezi used for corporate compliance and assurance training?
At MNP, a national accounting and advisory firm, the Quality, Professional Development team senior manager, Janna builds bilingual (English and French) assurance training for a national audience. Her team was looking for something more engaging than static e-learning slides, and Prezi's spatial, click-through canvas gave her a way to build scenario-based training, like a gamified warehouse inventory exercise where learners click on shelves and boxes, inspect damage, and talk to a character through pop-up dialogue - the kind of interactive, self-paced learning a traditional deck can't easily support.
Q: Can you build a live poll into a presentation instead of using a separate tool like Mentimeter?
Yes. Janna's team currently can't update visuals live from audience responses, but Prezi's poll feature sits directly in the presentation and can render results as a heat map or other visual across multiple data points, changing in real time as the room answers. That's what "lit her up" during the conversation: results aren't just a percentage breakdown, they reshape the visualization in front of the audience.
Q: Does Prezi's AI-generated quiz let you edit the questions, or is it fully automated?
It's both. Prezi builds a quiz automatically from whatever is already in the presentation, but Janna can go in and edit or rewrite individual questions and answers afterward. For her team, that control isn't optional: accounting standards are precise enough that a subtly wrong quiz answer could teach the wrong thing, so every participant needs to see the same, technically correct version, whether that's an edited AI quiz or one built from scratch.
Q: How does Prezi handle narration or voiceover for training content in multiple languages?
Prezi can auto-generate narration and turn a deck into a video or podcast-style listen, which matters for MNP because voiceover talent for English and French content is limited and Janna doesn't want to keep leaning on the same one or two people. She was clear that this only works if she can review and adjust the script before it goes live, both to get pronunciation of technical terms and acronyms right and to make sure the narration doesn't distract from the content itself.
Q: What does Newscaster or Camera mode look like in a virtual training session run over Teams?
Instead of the usual shared PowerPoint window with the presenter shrunk into a small camera tile, Newscaster mode keeps the presenter visible alongside the content, viewable by anyone with the link with no extra sign-up. Janna sees this making her team's Teams-based virtual sessions feel more dynamic, and also sees a use for pre-recorded training, where keeping the presenter front and center holds attention better than a plain voiceover recording.
Q: Can a presentation be turned into something learners interact with on their own after the session ends?
Yes, this was one of the features Janna found most exciting. Prezi can turn a presentation into a clickable, self-contained application. She saw two uses right away: as a follow-up resource learners revisit after a live session to reinforce specific points, and as an interactive activity she runs during instructor-led training itself.
Q: What kind of viewer analytics does Prezi provide for training content, and does it work with an LMS?
Prezi tracks engagement per link, including drop-off points, time spent per section, and quiz performance, and can identify individual learners when a session asks for a name or email at entry. That's the same kind of data Janna's instructional designers already look for in MNP's learning management system, and learning that this reporting could potentially be exported into that LMS is what led her to start working with the Prezi team on shaping it to fit her workflow.
Q: Does Prezi support async, self-paced quizzes for employees who miss a live training session?
Yes. Because a lot of MNP's content, from micro-learning modules to full e-learnings, is meant to be revisited independently, Prezi's quizzes and other engagement features work outside the live session too, letting employees complete a knowledge check on their own time rather than only in the room.
Q: How responsive has Prezi been to feature feedback from teams like MNP's?
Janna described the collaboration as unusually direct: she passed along a list of quality-of-life suggestions, several of which reached Prezi's developers and were implemented within weeks of her conversation with the team, including work on how engagement reporting could align with MNP's existing systems.
