generating a pdf of PowerPoint slides on demand

I'm a college instructor, and I need to give my students links to pdfs of my various slide decks over the course of the semester. Up until now, any time I update my PowerPoint slides in any significant way, I needed to remember to "Save a Copy" of the pptx file into the old pdf file (overwrite it). Everything is stored in my OneDrive, and the link to the corresponding pdf will now lead my students to the updated version of the file.

I wonder if it could be even simpler for me though.

I heard from a colleague who uses Google Slides that he doesn't need to generate pdfs - he gives his students a special link to the Google slide deck, except right in that link he somehow embeds the instruction for Google to generate a pdf of those slides on the fly, rather than giving them the slides themselves, whenever someone clicks on the link.

Can I do something like that in the Microsoft PowerPoint & OneDrive ecosystem?

Ideally, my needs go even a bit further - I'd like to be able to pdf all the slides except for one. Speaking broader, I need a link to generate a pdf of a RANGE of non-hidden slides, rather than generating a pdf of ALL of them.

Is there a way to do that?