We have an environment where instructors build out their Powerpoint presentations including Slido questions and polls. They then go to various classrooms which each have a pre-configured MacOS device using a generic account that is configured to auto-login. Configuration is managed by Jamf. When they launch Powerpoint, Slido prompts them to log in, which requires multiple steps as they must go through the Log in with Webex workflow. This is problematic, especially if they are coming in after another session that went right up to the scheduled time, or even over the scheduled time.
Is there a way to configure these devices to be logged into the Slido Add-in with a generic account that is either shared between all rooms or individual for each room? Is there a way to have this login happen programmatically, so that if the session cookie expires or any other timeout is reached, it can be logged back in either by recurring Jamf policy or a Self Service+ triggered policy? We have already confirmed that the account signed into the Add-In does not have to be the account that created the Powerpoint and the Slido questions and polls.
Managed deployment with shared account.
Best answer by Michal from Slido
Hello
It is technically possible to create a generic account that you could share collaborator access to for your Slidos, and therefore the presentation could be presented with that account logged in, in PowerPoint. The automatic log in process isn’t possible I’m afraid.
The integration covers personal use seamlessly. In contrast, An instituional use case such as yours is something we’ve never encountered, and therefore don’t have a solution for your scenario.
Hello
It is technically possible to create a generic account that you could share collaborator access to for your Slidos, and therefore the presentation could be presented with that account logged in, in PowerPoint. The automatic log in process isn’t possible I’m afraid.
The integration covers personal use seamlessly. In contrast, An instituional use case such as yours is something we’ve never encountered, and therefore don’t have a solution for your scenario.
Hello
It is technically possible to create a generic account that you could share collaborator access to for your Slidos, and therefore the presentation could be presented with that account logged in, in PowerPoint. The automatic log in process isn’t possible I’m afraid.
The integration covers personal use seamlessly. In contrast, An instituional use case such as yours is something we’ve never encountered, and therefore don’t have a solution for your scenario.
Hello Michal!
Thank you for your response! Is this something that could be added as a feature request? I feel like there are many others who could probably use this ability, if it were available. Are all Owner/Admin accounts automatically considered collaborators to member accounts? I ask because we have logged in for others in the past and they were able to present without issue and we did not give the account logging in collaborator permissions.
Once one has logged into the Slido Powerpoint add-in, how does one go about logging out of it? Does clearing the browser’s cache clear the session cookie used to persist the login?
Hi
You can absolutely submit this as a feature request here in our Wishlist.
As for logging out of the the Powerpoint integration you can do that directly in the Slido sidebar by clicking your name avatar and then clicking logout. See the picture I’ve attached below to see where I mean.
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