Resources
Documentation
Guides for everyone who prepares, presents and serves with FrameDecks.
- Getting startedYour first fifteen minutes with FrameDecks: install it, find your way around, build a meeting and put it on screen.
- InstallationHow to install, update and remove FrameDecks on a church or ministry PC.
- Service planningHow to plan a service, Bible study or meeting in FrameDecks, from a blank page or from Excel.
- FramesHow to create, organize and reuse Frames, the building blocks of every meeting.
- ContentEvery kind of Content you can put in a Frame, and every setting that controls how it looks and where it appears.
- Presentations: running the service liveEverything you need while the meeting is happening: going live, moving through Frames, handling the unexpected and keeping your script in view.
- MediaHow to show pictures, videos, PowerPoint, PDFs, windows, your screen and your camera, and how to send the finished picture to Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, OBS or a projector.
- Phone and tablet remoteRun the service from a phone or iPad: step through Frames and Content, draw on the picture, freeze or black out the screen.
- Suggested discussion questions (free AI on your PC)FrameDecks can draft discussion questions from the Bible passage in a Frame. A free AI program, Ollama, writes them on your own PC. Nothing is sent to the internet, it costs not…
- TroubleshootingFind the symptom, read the likely cause, apply the fix. Most problems take under a minute to solve.
- Frequently asked questionsStraight answers to the questions churches ask most about FrameDecks.
- FrameDecks glossaryOne word for each thing, the same in the program, on the website and in these guides. If a screen uses a different word, the screen is wrong: fix the screen, not this list. (Own…
- FrameDecks: user guide (v6.8)FrameDecks runs your online Bible study, prayer meeting, small group or training on Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet. It is meeting-first:
For each role in your team
- Church operationsHow a church team runs services with FrameDecks: who does what, how the roles work together, and how to train new volunteers.
- Media teamHow to prepare a meeting in FrameDecks so the service runs smoothly: Frames, Content, slides, videos and scripture.
- Remote operatorsHow to run a service, or draw on the screen, from a phone or iPad with the FrameDecks remote.
- Service-day checklistA printable timeline for running a service with FrameDecks, plus an emergency card to keep beside the PC.
- Service operatorsHow to run the FrameDecks PC during a service: setup, presenting, and calm recovery when something goes wrong.
- VolunteersEverything a new volunteer needs to help run a service with FrameDecks. You can learn it in ten minutes.
- Worship leaders and teachersHow to lead a service or Bible study with FrameDecks, so the technology supports what you say instead of distracting from it.