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Share announcements with your audience


Jay from Slido
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If you want to share important information with your audience during your slido session, you can use moderator’s Announcements.

 

Available in our Professional plan and higher. 

 

This feature allows you to push a notification at the top of the Participant mode with a message for everyone to see. We also support links as part of announcements, so feel free to use this feature to share various URLs with your audience.
 

 

Create and publish an announcement


You can create an announcement by:

  1. Clicking the megaphone icon at the top of your Host Mode.
  2. Type in your announcement
  3. Select save announcement

After saving the announcement, when you wish to activate it simply: 

  1. Select the megaphone button again
  2. Select the Announce to participants icon next to your announcement.

 

Create, save and activate an announcement

 

If you don't want to display the message anymore, click the megaphone button again, hover over Live announcement and then click to stop it. You can save up to five announcements for your session which you can activate one at a time when you need them throughout your session.

 

There is a 260 character limit on each announcement. So keep your messages short and to the point so your audience understand exactly what you’re announcing. 

 

 

How it looks in the Participant mode:

 

How an announcement looks in Participant Mode

 

Your audience can acknowledge the message by hitting OK. Doing so will dismiss the announcement for them.

 

Announcements will appear for participants, no matter if they’ve viewing the Q&A or Polls tab.

 

 

Managing Multiple Announcements

 

You can create and manage up to 5 announcements at a time, which is especially handy if you want to send out different messages throughout your session. After saving your announcements you can activate each of them, one at a time from your Host Mode. 

 

Activating and deactivating announcements

 

Edit or Delete Announcements 

 

If you need to edit an announcement, or you don't need an announcement anymore you can:

  1. Click the megaphone icon
  2. Select the 3 dot next to each announcement
  3. Select either “Edit” or “Delete”

 

Edit or Delete an announcement

 

Pro Tip: You can re-use announcements, so if you have more than five announcements try to keep one or two of them generic so you can use them again. Eg. “The next session starts in 5 minutes”.

 

If you are using Multiple Rooms it is worth noting that announcements are specific to each room you create and do not carry over to every room. 

  • New Participant
  • August 23, 2024

Do we know when this will be available with the new UI? I was unable to find it for an upcoming event.


Joel at Slido

Hi @JPatton 

We can’t say for sure yet when Announcements will be introduced into the new UI, but you can subscribe to our Product News to be the first to know. 

 

In the meantime, you can still switch to the old UI and use Announcements that way. Just click the help shortcut to find the switch option.
 

 


Jay from Slido
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Hi ​@JPatton 👋 

Just wanted to let you know that the announcement feature is now live in our new host mode 🚀


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