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Polls are a great way to collect inputs from your audience. Whether you're organizing a (remote) company meeting, conference, or teaching a class. You can use them to lighten up the mood, test knowledge, or ask for feedback.

You can choose from various types of single polls, or activate multiple polls at once and build them into a Survey.

 

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How to start

 

To get a poll set up, you must first create a slido. Click on your slido, then select a poll type under Add new interaction:
 

Select your first poll type

 

Once your poll is ready, it will appear under My interactions, where you can activate and deactivate the poll when needed.

 

Your poll question can contain up to 256 characters. There's no character limit for responses to an open text poll for participants.

 

 

Multiple choice Poll

 

Poll the audience with a multiple choice question to learn more about their preferences and opinions. A multiple choice poll is also a quick way to check your audience's understanding of presented content in real-time.

Each option in a multiple choice poll can be up to 256 characters long.
 

Set up a multiple choice poll

 

Find more options for your poll under Poll settings. Learn more in our multiple choice poll guide.

 

 

Word cloud

 

A word cloud turns open-text responses into a cloud of words whose size will depend on how many times they have been submitted by the participants. To learn more about how it works, check our What is a word cloud article.

 

Create a word cloud

 

Find more options for your poll under Poll settings. Learn more in our word cloud guide.

 

Word clouds work best visually with short answers so advise your participants to use one to three words when using the word cloud to get the best results

 

 

Open text Poll

 

Use the open text poll to have attendees type in words or longer text. Perfect for open ended questions to inspire. You can toggle on multiple answers and show respondent names from the Poll settings if you’d like to see where the ideas are coming from!

 

Create an open text poll

 

Find even more options for your poll under Poll settings. Learn more in our open text poll guide.

 

Please note that the open text poll is limited to 5000 responses to optimize performance.

 

 

Ranking Poll

 

Learn about your participants’ preferences by letting them prioritize the options with a ranking poll. The poll settings give you the option to select the number of options you’d like ranked, and an option to randomize the options display for each participant.

 

Create a ranking poll

 

Find more options for your poll under Poll settings. Learn more in our ranking poll guide.

 

 

Rating Poll

 

Create a rating poll and allow attendees to send feedback on your presentation or rate their experience. A rating poll can be from 1-10 stars or even emoji’s, to get an even better sense check of your participants.


 

Create a rating poll

 

Find more options for your poll under Poll settings. Learn more in our rating poll guide.

 

 

Quiz


Test the knowledge of your audience, be it a training session, exam, or trivia night. 

 

Wanna run a fun quiz, but aren’t sure what questions to ask? Use the random question generator in the upper right corner.

 

Create a quiz


Find more options for your quiz under Poll settings. Learn more in our quiz guide.

 

A quick quiz with up to 5 questions works like a charm to engage the audience and to drive healthy competition. 

 

 

Survey

 

Add a survey to your interactions to run multiple polls at the same time, collect feedback, rate multiple items and add an "other" option to a multiple choice poll.
 

Surveys are available in all paid plans


Build your survey by creating your first poll question and then adding more using the + Add another question option.

For example, you could start with a word cloud, followed by a rating poll, an open text poll to ask for the reason for your rating.

 

Create a survey

 

Each poll within your survey has its own separate Poll settings. Simply select a specific poll to adjust it. Learn more in our survey guide.

 

 

Useful information and tips

 

Reorder polls in a survey
Drag and drop the polls to rearrange them.
 

Rearrange polls in a Survey

 

Test your Polls

It's always a good practice to test everything before you go live. Activate your poll by clicking Start interaction, then select View as participant near the bottom right corner.
Cast a vote and observe how the results change. Finally, click the Present mode button in the bottom right to check how the results will look for the participants.
 

To learn more about testing in advance, check out our Test your slido article.

 

Reset your Poll results

Once you're done with testing, click the three vertical dots next to your poll under Interactions and select Reset results from the dropdown. This ensures the data will only be collected from your live event or meeting.

 

Share your Polls with participants

Display Present mode on your screen to let participants join via the specific code. Your audience will be able to use this code during the dates you set up for your slido. Alternatively, you can send out the direct link or a QR code to your slido via email or internal platform to collect votes, crowdsource questions, and brainstorm ideas asynchronously during or even before your event or meeting. Find these options under the green Share button in the upper right corner

          

 

     

Hi, 

Is it possible to have a quiz with varied types of questions rather than just multiple choice. I am trying to create a quiz with ranking questions and questions where there’s only one option available.

 


Hey @nicole.laudat ,

Currently the Quiz is only available to use with Multiple Choice as you need to mark the correct answer. It is not possible to mark a correct answer with a Ranking poll, Word Cloud, Rating poll, Open text.

We will submit this as a feature request on your behalf though!

Let us know if you have any other questions!

Best,


Is it possible to run a poll where someone signs in but the choices they make in the poll are anonymous? So we don’t know how they voted.


Hey @Office ,

If you are on a Professional or Higher you can control the Participant Privacy options for responding to polls and asking questions.

If you are on a free or Engage Plan, then your participants will always have the option to submit their responses with their name or anonymously.

Let us know if you have any other quesitons.

Best,


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