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Slido Team
Slido Team
published in Best Practices & Discussions
Who in your organization should have a Slido seatBlog

 Slido is a versatile engagement tool for any training, meeting, or presentation. Its endless use cases make it valuable for many different roles within an organization. This guide outlines the business value of including Slido member access for specific departments and teams. See the benefits below for adding Slido member seats for:Communications & Executive Assistants HR and Marketing teams Team Leads L&D Specialists and Trainers Onboarding Specialists  Communications & Executive Assistants Business value added by Slido:Transparent communication from top to bottom during AMAs, Town halls, and/or All-Hands meetings  Non-negotiable and reliable security setup, including SSO login for both the hosts and the audience Honest feedback on business strategy and direction – crowdsourced from employeesColleagues working in these teams and departments are responsible for organizing and running large scale leadership meetings. Slido can support them to achieve the high stakes objecti

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Slido Team
8 days ago
Joel with Slido
Joel with Slido
published in Best Practices & Discussions
Teach your team members how to use SlidoBlog

Are you a Slido license owner or admin looking to enhance user adoption in your organization? We've designed a 45-minute customizable training template to help your users explore Slido’s features, practice Q&A sessions, and engage their audiences with live polls. While Slido, itself, is intuitive, delivering content while managing multiple tools can be complex. Running this training session ensures your team has the knowledge and hands-on experience needed to create a seamless and engaging meeting experience. Why use this template? The template is customizable to fit your organization’s unique needs and offers interactive elements for hands-on learning. It ensures that people gain confidence to use Slido effectively in their meetings. Tips for success Audience: Use this with new users or anyone else needing a refresher.Promotion: Share your session details widely or list them on your internal learning platform.Delivery: Combine PowerPoint or Google Slides with integrations for vide

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Joel with Slido
11 days ago
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lalaberli
asked in Events & Webinars learnings
Unsimultanous interaction

Hi, I want to create a quiz, where different people compete by right amount of answers and answer speed. But the people will not be answering the questions at the same time. Is it possible to start an interaction again, without resetting it? Thank you.

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Ondrej from Slido
11 days ago
The White Hatter
The White Hatter
posted in Best Practices & Discussions
Slido for YouTube like Live HD Broadcasting

Hello everyone,I thought I’d share a creative solution our team uses to integrate Slido into a live broadcasting environment, along with some suggestions for future feature development. For context:Microsoft Teams and Zoom are excellent tools for collaborative meetings but fall short when it comes to broadcasting. Our team hosts hour-long live video training sessions that include participant interaction and a Q&A segment afterward.Privacy is crucial for our audience, which makes Slido such a great fit. In the work we do, most participants prefer not to share their camera feed but still want to interact with the facilitator live on screen.One major issue with video conferencing tools is that they compress video quality to reduce the processing load of multiple video feeds. When delivering a live event, providing the best possible visuals is essential for creating an engaging audience experience. By opting for one-way video broadcasting through platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Castr, o

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The White Hatter
17 days ago
Joel from Slido
Joel from Slido
published in Events & Webinars learnings
Slido’s Product Team Reveals Latest Innovations in Most Recent Product Event

At our latest Product Event, our team revealed a series of updates designed to make your Slido experience smoother and more efficient than ever.  First up, our new and improved interface 🚀Our revamped design is all about ease and speed: expect simpler navigation, a slido creation process that’s now 30% faster, and a seamless experience across all of our integrations. But the big news? Our much-anticipated AI features! 🎉 You can now generate polls based on your presentation content, create quizzes in seconds, and get suggestions for optimizing Q&A questions - all with the power of AI. 💡 The event featured an in-depth look into the creative process behind these innovations – including our Product Managers leading a live demo showcasing how these new features can boost your workflow.  Missed the event? Catch up here 👍If you couldn't attend live, don’t worry! You can still experience the excitement by watching the recorded session and checking out the presented slide deck.  We’ve a

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Joel from Slido
1 month ago
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ALowe
asked in Best Practices & Discussions
Recommendations for running real-time voting poll with open-ended text fields?

We are hosting a virtual costume contest and want attendees to vote for each of their favorite categories during the team call.What recommendations do you have to pull this off successfully? There are 5 categories for voting, including best overall. It is also impossible for us to pre-load a survey or multiple choices with names and/or voting options as the costumes will be revealed and need to be written in real-time. We are also expecting 25+ attendees, so pre-populating a multiple choice with expected names won’t be feasible.Is there a template for this use case? I am new to Slido and have currently set it up as multiple polls with word clouds, each integrated into the meeting PPT. The tutorial videos indicate the more popular words will be larger, but we prefer to see actual voting numbers (if even only me and a meeting collaborator). I am not finding how best to tabulate such results for the open text words, nor how best to export the outcomes for each poll question. Thank you!

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Carly from Slido
1 month ago
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SweetPotatoLemon
asked in Events & Webinars learnings
Lost data when reactivating poll

HiI was running a slido at the end of some training recently and I accidentally reactivated one of the polls that had already been responded to. This seemed to cause a loss of all the data that had been captured in that poll. Is there anyway of retrieving that data?Thanks

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Carly from Slido
1 month ago
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Dayanna
asked in Best Practices & Discussions
Upgrade plan to my team

Good morning,I have a question. I wanted to know if I upgrade my profile to an Engage program and I invite people to join my slido, will they also have access to my upgrade while editing?Thank you for your answer !

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Ondrej from Slido
1 month ago
Joel from Slido
Joel from Slido
published in Best Practices & Discussions
Use Case: Trainings, Workshops, and WebinarsUse Case

Slido allows you to make learning an engaging and fun experience. You can encourage active participation in learning by checking for content understanding in real-time, enabling learners to ask and upvote questions, and asking for critical feedback. In this guide, you’ll learn how to use Slido to make your Trainings, Workshops and Webinars more inclusive by allowing your attendees to actively participate - whether they are remote or onsite. Common challenges Little to no interaction Unable to check for understanding Lack of inclusion How Slido can help Encourage participation Make learning effective Hear from everyone Best practices and templates Audience Q&A Icebreakers and opening polls Present facts or data in an engaging way Gauge knowledge levels and check for understanding Collect feedback   Common challenges Little to no interactionDistracted learners: Attendees are easily distracted by their environment or their other devices and they can lose focus.   No back and

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Ondrej from Slido
2 months ago
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VimeoIT
asked in Best Practices & Discussions
Setting up Participant login via Okta SSO

I am attempting to configure participant SSO via Okta. I already have Member SSO in place however, the documentation is suggesting that in order for participants to log in and ask questions they must use the separate integration.  There is no pre-built Okta integration for Participants so I’d like to know what I need to enter for the following:  Single sign-on URL  Audience URI (SP Entity ID) Secondary to the above question, is there an option to leverage the existing IDP connection used for Members to allow participant login?

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Ondrej from Slido
2 months ago
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EWFConfTeam
asked in Events & Webinars learnings
Quiz - Can you add and remove points from participants DURING quiz?

Is it possible to add and remove points from participants DURING the quiz? For more info, we’re looking to have a session where in addition to the quiz participants can gain or lose points through various other activities happening in the room. We’d like to keep score on just the one scoreboard/leaderboard though in slido and just integrate their points earning/losing in slido.

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Carly from Slido
2 months ago
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maae
asked in Events & Webinars learnings
Slido poll with multiple questions og a quiz without identifying correct answer

Can I create a slido poll with 10 questions with 4 possible answers for each question?I could use the quiz format, but I don’t want to identify a correct answer.

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Carly from Slido
2 months ago
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Boey8791
asked in Events & Webinars learnings
ranking poll elimination

Hi there,I'm running an event and polling my audience to see which marketing slogans they like the best.I aim to poll the audience with the slido ranking poll and the most popular slogan will then advance to the next stage. There are 36 different slogans and I aim to have 6 slogans per slide. The winner of each slide to progress to the final round where I will do another poll asking which slogan is the best. Is this possible on slido ? Thank you 

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Carly from Slido
2 months ago
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iok
asked in Best Practices & Discussions
Countdown: Timer workaround

I know, I know- a timer can’t be added. But has anyone figured out a work-around? there will be a first after all. 

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Ondrej from Slido
2 months ago
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Masaa
asked in Best Practices & Discussions
masaa

Hello to everyone? I am Masaa a firs time user of slido as a registered member. i wish to use the app in facilitating discussions in conferences and seminars that I  am normally involved with.

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2 months ago
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teampa
asked in Best Practices & Discussions
Leadership scorecard for quiz

Hi,Looking to host a quiz. When making use of the leadership scorecard, we just wanted to double check that this rating selects only those who are scoring highly in the quiz?Thank you - teampa

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3 months ago
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KelseyO
asked in Best Practices & Discussions
Reset poll results after testing

Hi everyone,Is there an easy way to reset my poll responses or results? I’d like to test my slido out to make sure I understand what I’m doing, but I want to know that I can start fresh again. I’m worried that I’ll have my testing responses there and won’t be able to remove them.  Is this possible?

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Joel from Slido
3 months ago
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ERM Comms
asked in Best Practices & Discussions
Follow up question

Hi, is it possible to link the next question with the answer given to the previous one? For example:Choose your favourite colour: red blue Depending on what the person choses a follow up question appears. For example, if someone chose 1. red, the next question is: 2. Please list 3 red vegetables. I hope that makes sense. Thanks,Magda

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Ondrej from Slido
4 months ago
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Back_that_SaaS_Up
posted in Events & Webinars learnings
Interactive Webinar Experiences with Slido

I’ve been using Slido for in-person events for the last 1.5 years and I’ve used a few times for webinars. We’re shifting our approach to webinars to make them more interactive. In fact, they’re less webinar and much more of an engagement experience. That said, getting engagement can be hard even with in-person events (I know personally). We use ice-breakers to get folks familiar with Slido and that has worked well. Here’s our use case:We have an experience with 3 different challenges and wanted responses on a 2-3 questions for each challenge. Would 3x3 = 9 types of questions be too much in a 45 minute span?Does integration with Zoom work better when sharing slides? What’s the max number of questions or polling you’ve done in a 45 min online event with 100 people? This is with “prospect customers”, not an internal company event, so the stakes for a smooth execution are much higher. I’ll happily share what we end up doing and the results.Thanks,Peter    

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Carly from Slido
5 months ago
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Gary Dover
asked in Best Practices & Discussions
Transferiing events from one accout to another

Please can someone help by giving instructions on how you can transfer current events from one Slido account to another? My company has recently purchased a new professional account with Slido whilst we had a shared account with another department that had deferred back to a basic account and I want to avoid having to create the events again in the new account. Is this something that can be done?

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Ondrej from Slido
5 months ago
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slidopersom
asked in Best Practices & Discussions
Can I collect suggestions AND then proceed to vote?

Hi We’re looking for a tool that will hekp facilitate a workshop in the following phases (or similar):Crowd-source a list of suggestions (or ideas etc) from participants in a free text format (either “Word cloud” or “Open text”), Then progress to a voting stage based on the crowd-sourced entries.So we democratise the ideas (rather than the host/chairperson prescribing them) and then move onto a voting phase.I can kind of see the “Word cloud” doing this, but asking participants to manually type the same words that they see on the board in order to vote for it seems a little long-winded and less intuitive. Any ideas? Thanks,

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5 months ago
Joel from Slido
Joel from Slido
published in Best Practices & Discussions
Use Case: Brainstorming as a TeamUse Case

Use Slido to help your team brainstorm their strategy, identify projects for the next quarter, or crowdsource the agenda for an upcoming event or conference. You can even allow them to submit their ideas or suggestions into Slido in advance. This allows you to use your valuable meeting time for a productive discussion – instead of simply collecting input. In this guide, you will learn how to use Slido to make your brainstorming sessions more effective, regardless of whether your team is remote or in the room. Common challenges Fear of rejection Lack of productivity Difficulty facilitating How Slido can help Enable team confidence Productive brainstorming Easier to facilitate Polls and templates Open text poll Ranking poll   Common challenges Fear of rejectionSocial anxiety: Often meeting attendees worry about what others might think about their idea so they either choose to conform or remain silent.   Power dynamics: A few assertive individuals can dominate the discussion, where

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Ondrej from Slido
5 months ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Events & Webinars learnings
Slido Elevate presents: Human-Centric Leadership, Delivering Business Results By Building TrustElevate

As economic uncertainty, employee disengagement, and layoffs persist, it's crucial for leaders to focus on both organizational goals and employee development. According to a Gartner study, prioritizing a human-centric work model enhances productivity, retention, and business outcomes. On May 23, we gathered experts at our popular Elevate by Slido event to discuss transitioning from management to effective, human-centered leadership. The event featured Abigail Marks (Newcastle University) on work-life integration, Liz Selman (The School of Life) on the necessary emotional skills, and Leah Roe (The Perk) on intentional trust-building. Practical Slido applications and best practices from Sabine Brossart (Slido) and insights into the daily life of leaders from Thomas Reyto (Slack) and Stephanie Gerry (Atlassian) rounded out the event.Explore these transformative ideas and actionable tips from our esteemed speakers. Insights and Strategies from our speakers The Intensity of Modern WorkAbiga

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Alex
6 months ago
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Murz
asked in Best Practices & Discussions
Pre-defined list of phrases for the Word cloud poll type

How can I predefine the suggested list of phrases for the Word Cloud poll type?For example, I want to ask the audience to tell me the names of brands they use to gather logs.And I already provided them a short list of most popular ones like:ElasticSearch, Grafana Loki, StatsD, Datadog, New Relic.So, via the poll I want the audience to not only choose brands that they use now, but also type new brands that are not listed yet.So the “Multiple Choice” poll type doesn’t suit because they can’t add new options there.The “Word Cloud” poll suite more, but I can’t predefine the list of suggested options, so people will type something like “Elastic” + “ElasticSearch” + “Elastic Search” + “Elastic Stack” + “ELK” and we will got a lot of duplicates. So, could you please extend the “Word Cloud” poll configuration to allow adding predefined suggested options, with keeping the ability to add new custom strings?

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Carly from Slido
7 months ago
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jamie12ax7
posted in Best Practices & Discussions
Structuring multiple speakers and decks for a single event

Our event consists of 2 days with 9 presenters.  It is all in a single room with each presenter bringing their own deck.  What is the best way for me to structure this?  I have a single event lisence.

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Carly from Slido
8 months ago
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