Quick Answer: Prezi lets teachers upload existing PowerPoint lessons and run them as interactive classes with live quizzes, with nothing to rebuild. Import a PPTX, PDF, or Word file, a Google Slides or Canva presentation, or a Gamma deck exported to PowerPoint or PDF, and your slides arrive looking exactly the way you made them. Prezi drafts quizzes and polls from your content, students join from one QR code with no app and no login, and after class the same page keeps working as flashcards and a self-test.
Bring your slides. Prezi builds the class around them.
Most teachers already have the lessons. What's missing is a way to know who's following before the test tells you, without spending a weekend rebuilding everything in a new tool. Uploading what you already teach is the fastest way to get there.
Why Repurpose Your PowerPoint Lessons Instead of Starting Over
Your slides hold years of judgment about how to teach your subject. The explanation you reworked after a class got lost is in there, and so is the example that finally made a hard concept land. Starting over in a new platform throws that away.
Uploading keeps all of it and adds what slides can't do on their own. Every student answers instead of the same three, and you see which questions landed. For most teachers, the real reason not to try a new tool is the lessons they'd have to leave behind, and import removes that reason. If you're comparing options, the best interactive classroom presentation tools for 2026 is a good place to start.
Import a deck and you can be running a poll in about two minutes. The time you'd have spent recreating slides goes into deciding where students should check their understanding.
Supported File Types: PPTX, PDF, DOCX, Google Slides, and Canva
Prezi imports PPTX, PDF, and DOCX files, Google Slides and Canva presentations, Gamma decks, Keynote exports, and decks made in ChatGPT or another AI tool. You can also connect Canva, Figma, Slack, and other apps to Prezi AI so it can pull in content that already lives there. With the new Prezi plugin for ChatGPT, you can also import lessons straight from a ChatGPT conversation.
PowerPoint (PPTX). Your slide structure, images, and text formatting come in the way you made them.
PDF. Useful for materials that started in another program or reached you in a locked format, like a resource from a colleague.
Word (DOCX). Lesson plans and handouts written in Word can become a presentation you teach from.
Google Slides and Canva. Presentations from both come in looking the way you designed them.
Gamma. Built a lesson in Gamma? Select Share, export to PowerPoint or PDF, and import the file. PowerPoint keeps your text editable in Prezi; PDF keeps every slide exactly as it looked in Gamma.
Figma and Slack. Connect these in the Integrations panel in Prezi AI. Figma lets Prezi AI reference design files and mockups, handy for design and digital media courses or training on a new product. Slack lets Prezi AI reference relevant conversations, so a trainer or department lead can turn the notes from a planning channel into a session without copying them over. Prezi AI only sees what your account already can. See Prezi integrations for the full list.
Nothing gets restyled unless you ask. If you'd like a new look, pick a designer-made theme and preview it side by side with your original. Your content stays intact either way.
Real classrooms run on mixed material. You might have PowerPoint lessons from five years ago, a PDF from a colleague, a Canva activity from last semester, and a Gamma deck you drafted last week. All of it can come into one place and run the same way.
How to Upload and Convert Existing Lessons Step-by-Step
- Gather your lesson files. FFind the PPTX, PDF, or DOCX files on your computer or cloud storage, open the Google Slides or Canva presentation you want to use, or export your Gamma deck to PowerPoint or PDF.
- Import into Prezi. Start a new presentation from an existing file and choose your lesson.
- Review the result. Your text, images, and layouts come in as they were. Your slides come in exactly as they are, and now you can move around them.
- Add checks for understanding. Prezi drafts quiz and poll questions from your slide content. Keep the ones that fit, edit the wording, and place them where you want students to check themselves. For more on this, see our AI presentation tool for teachers.
- Teach it live. Students scan one QR code and they're in.
No slides for this one? Describe the class in a sentence, like "grade 11 water cycle, twenty minutes, they keep confusing condensation," and Prezi drafts the lesson with the quiz already attached.
New: Upload Lessons Straight from ChatGPT
Prezi is now available as a ChatGPT plugin. OpenAI's new plugins bring the tools teachers already use into a single ChatGPT conversation, and Prezi is one of the education partners.
If your lesson already lives in ChatGPT, or you attach a PowerPoint or PDF to the chat, the Prezi plugin imports it as a Prezi presentation. Your slides keep the formatting you gave them, and nothing is restyled unless you ask. Starting from nothing? Talk through the lesson in the chat and Prezi drafts it, and you can edit or reorder slides without leaving the conversation.
Ask for a poll, a quiz, or Q&A in the same chat, and the finished presentation saves to your Prezi account, ready to teach. New presentations are unlisted by default, so nobody sees yours until you share the link.
To turn it on, open Settings in ChatGPT, go to Plugins, add Prezi, and sign in with your Prezi account. Then select Prezi in any chat and give it a classroom task, like "turn this PowerPoint into an interactive lesson with a quiz at the end."
See Who's Following: Live Quizzes and Polls on Uploaded Slides
A check for understanding works best at a natural transition. After you explain a key concept, a quick quiz shows whether it landed. Before a new topic, a poll or word cloud gets the room thinking about what comes next.
The checks for understanding available today are quizzes, polls, Q&A, and word clouds. Students answer from their own phones, tablets, or laptops by scanning a QR code or opening a link, with no app and no login. For more on browser-based participation, see our guide to no-app polling for educators. Q&A lets students upvote each other's questions, so the quiet ones participate too.
Results by question show you which concepts need another pass. When a quiz shows half the class missed the third stage of a process, you go straight to that part of the lesson in one move. Teach it in the order the room needs.
If you'd like help writing questions, our roundup of the best AI tools for live checks in 2026 covers drafting quizzes from slides. Coming from Kahoot? Kahoot can import slides too. With Prezi, they stay your presentation, not a shell around someone else's quiz. Our Kahoot alternative guide goes deeper.
Keeping everything in one presentation also keeps the class together. Students stay on one screen with one code instead of moving between your slides and a separate quiz app.
After Class: The Same Page Keeps Teaching
What students open afterward is the same page you taught from. The shareable link opens your lesson as flashcards, a self-test they can retake, a narrated video, or a podcast, so a student who missed class gets more than a set of slides. For more, see our guide to creating flash cards from lesson content.
The session ends. The learning doesn't.
Classroom Use Cases: From English Lessons to Corporate Training
The same upload workflow works across grade levels and settings.
K-12 classrooms. Teachers with years of PowerPoint lessons for reading can add comprehension checks between passages. Science teachers can run a poll asking students to predict an outcome before revealing the answer. In SEL lessons, word clouds and Q&A give every student a voice, including the ones who would never raise a hand.
Language instruction. TEFL lessons and English lessons benefit from vocabulary quizzes where every student answers at once instead of waiting for a turn. After class, flashcards from the same lesson give students a way to keep practicing.
Higher education. Professors teaching hybrid courses run the same live quiz for the lecture hall and for students joining online, and results come back together. Remote counts as present.
Corporate training. Trainers can upload existing training decks and add knowledge checks without overhauling the curriculum. SCORM export sends completion data to your LMS, so stakeholders get proof, not completion percentages.
Youth groups and informal settings. Any setting with existing slides and a group you want to hear from works the same way.
Once the upload workflow is familiar, our guide to building weekly lesson decks faster covers the next step.
Turn Your Existing Lessons into Interactive Classes with Prezi
Prezi is an interactive presentation platform that turns the material you already teach into experiences where people participate, apply ideas, and show what they understand. One tool does what four used to.
Educators make up 71% of Prezi's G2 Audience Response reviewers, and Prezi is the only product G2 ranks in the top three of presentation software, AI presentation tools, and audience response.
Upload your PowerPoint, PDF, Google Slides, Canva, or Gamma lessons, choose where students should check their understanding, and teach it live in person, remotely, or both. Prezi's education plans have the details.
The lesson you refined over five years doesn't need rebuilding. Bring it in and let the whole class take part.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I upload existing PowerPoint lessons to make them interactive?
Yes. Prezi imports PPTX files and keeps your slide content, images, and formatting the way you made them. Prezi then drafts quizzes and polls from your slides, and students join from one QR code.
What file types can I upload to create interactive classroom presentations?
Prezi supports PPTX, PDF, and DOCX uploads, plus Google Slides, Canva, Gamma (exported as PowerPoint or PDF), Keynote exports, and decks made in ChatGPT or other AI tools. You can also connect Canva, Figma, and Slack so Prezi AI can reference content from those apps. Nothing is restyled unless you choose a new theme.
Can I bring a Gamma lesson into Prezi? Yes. Export it from Gamma as PowerPoint or PDF, import the file into Prezi, and add a quiz, poll, Q&A, or word cloud next to any slide.
Does Prezi connect with Figma or Slack? Yes. Connect them from the Integrations panel in Prezi AI. Figma brings in design files and mockups, and Slack brings in relevant conversations and team context, which Prezi AI references when you mention them in your prompt.
Can I upload lessons to Prezi from ChatGPT?
Yes. Prezi is available as a ChatGPT plugin, so you can import slides made in ChatGPT, or a PowerPoint or PDF attached to the chat, without leaving the conversation. Turn it on under Settings, then Plugins, and sign in with your Prezi account.
Do I need to recreate my lessons from scratch to add quizzes and interactive features?
No. Upload the lesson you already have, and Prezi drafts quiz and poll questions from its content for you to review. Your original slides stay intact, and you decide where each check for understanding goes.
How do I run a live interactive class from my uploaded PowerPoint slides?
Present from Prezi while students join by scanning a QR code or opening a link, with no app and no login. Quizzes and polls appear where you placed them, and results by question come back in real time. Students in the room and students joining remotely take part the same way.
Can I upload existing lessons for both in-person and online classes?
Yes. Uploaded lessons work in person, online, and in hybrid classes, and quizzes, polls, and Q&A work the same way for every student. You prepare one lesson for every format.
Can I upload iReady, SEL, or reading lessons as interactive presentations?
Yes, if the materials are in a supported format such as PPTX, PDF, or DOCX and you have the rights to use them in your class. That includes SEL lessons, reading lessons, and curriculum materials like iReady resources. Once uploaded, add comprehension checks for reading passages or reflection prompts for SEL.
How long does it take to convert and upload an existing lesson for an interactive class?
Import usually takes a few minutes, depending on file size. Import your slides and you can be running a live poll in about two minutes. Adding more checks for understanding is a matter of reviewing the questions Prezi drafts and choosing where they go.
