Can I hide Q&A questions from participants so that only hosts, co-hosts, or moderators can see them?

Hi Slido team,

Is it possible to go one step further from this and approve questions (when in moderation mode) but only have the questions show in presenter mode? 

I.e. it doesnt show to everyone, only those in presenter mode?

Thanks

Hi there, 

That’s a great question!

Currently, it’s not possible to show approved questions only in Present mode. 

With the moderation turned on, you can either leave the questions for review meaning participants will only see their own questions... or approve the relevant ones which will appear in both Present mode and Participant mode.  

However, the idea of having questions displayed only in Present mode is very interesting. Feel free to submit this to our Wishlist.

Thanks again for the question 👍

I have this exact same question.  My client wants to be able to have an ‘off-stage moderator’ managing all the inbound questions from the moderator page.  That person approves/edits questions and sends them to a private ‘Present’ view for an ‘on-stage moderator’ who would be “on camera” with guests, asking the questions verbally to the panel.  We want the audience to be able to send in questions, but we don’t want the audience to see these ‘approved questions’ in case the panelists aren’t able to answer them.  We also can’t have the ‘on-stage moderator’ managing all the inbound questions because they’ll be “live on camera” and can’t dedicate that much time to review, that’s why they would be on the ‘Present’ screen, seeing only those questions that become pre-screened and approved by the ‘off-stage moderator’.  Is there a way to turn off the visibility of all questions to the audience, while still allowing them to enter new questions?

RWALEN I too have had experiences with this type of request: questions managed only by the moderator, passed to the speakers and NOT visible to the public.

The solution adopted in this case was:

• Slido moderation on 
• the moderator answers privately to users, if necessary
• the moderator categorizes the questions  (with labels)
• the moderator passes the questions to the speakers through a separate channel that is NOT Slido: for example, he reads questions verbally to the speaker or passes it to him through a private speaker / moderator communication channel

Same here. It would be great to have an extra option to push and remove questions in private to the presenter on stage instead of make them visible for everyone.

Best,

frank

Hello, @Frank, thanks for your question. 

We don’t have a specific moderator view, but there might be some workarounds.

One idea is to send the questions over to the moderator via a different platform as @Isabella suggested. 

Or, you can invite the moderator as a co-host to your slido and: 

1. Turn the moderation on
2. Have the off-stage moderators DISMISS the questions they would “push to the on-stage moderator”
3. In Slido host mode, the on-stage moderator would open the Archive and preview the “pushed questions”. 

I understand that any of the above solutions are not ideal and they’ve got their limitations. Feel free to submit the moderator view idea to our Wishlist.

@Dasa from Slido has there been any progress on this? It’s a great idea, and often requested from event organizers.  Like you say, there are work arounds, but they aren’t as elegant.

Hi, @MyEvents, 

Unfortunately, I don’t have any updates on this one. Our teams are currently focusing on other functionalities.

Moderator view is indeed a something that our customers would benefit from and although I can’t promise anything, I hope we will see in the product one day!


All my best, 

Dáša

Hello,

Are there any updates?

We’re still not able to find any options to hide the questions from the participants while showing them in the presenter view.

Thanks

Linda

Hey @Linda_Bue ,

This is still not possible in Slido but thank you for raising this again, I will pass it on :)

In the meantime, you can try the workarounds mentioned in this thread - I hope they help at least a little.

Has anything been updated on this request? 

Hey @RuhlinTheWorld,

Not yet, but keep an eye on this thread and we will update it if this becomes possible in the future.

I would love to have the same feature. Privacy is very important to our events. Participants should not be able to read the questions from others. 

Is there an update? Still not possible?

I too would love to see a function like this added. Is this being looked into?

Hello @MMP ,

Moderator view is not available yet, so I’d recommend using one of the workarounds that were presented here. 

As soon as this will be available, we will inform our customers.

In case you’d need anything else, please let us know.

We’re happy to help.

Hi, are there any updates to this as I also have a similar request from a client. 

Hello @xtinatay 

Currently this feature is not on our roadmap and it is not planned to have it in the near future. However I will pass your request to the team. I recommend submitting this to our Wishlist.

Kindly

Really would like to see this functionality. It’s been 4 years and Slido hasn’t taken this into account!

Hello Slido team, any updates on this request? We are a professional event company and, like others, want to limit the visibility of the approved questions to the moderator and admin only, or at least have the option. We do not want participants to see the “question waiting line”, just as described above. Thanks.

Hi ​@Chrissie—

I completely understand the need for that level of control during events.

At the moment, there isn’t a way to approve questions so that only moderators or admins can see them. However, you can achieve a similar setup by leaving questions in the moderation queue, they’ll remain visible only in the host interface, not to participants.

That way, your moderator can still manage the flow of questions privately.

All the best,