Once you create a poll or survey, starting it allows participants to cast their votes.
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Start a poll
Start your poll by selecting it from under My interactions and clicking the green Start poll button near the bottom of the page.
As participants begin sending in their responses, you’ll see the live results on the right side of your screen. Plus the results will also be displayed in the Present mode.
Pro tip: Quickly start any of your polls by hovering over them under My interactions and clicking the green Play button.
Slido polls are designed to be ran or presented one at a time. If you’d like to have multiple polls live at the same time, please see our guide that describes how to do that.
Start a survey
Surveys are started just like any other poll. However, because surveys include multiple questions, starting them will present all poll questions to your participants at the same time.
If you’d like to display your survey results for participants to see, you can do so one poll at a time. Just click the arrow icon next to the poll question. This will present the results for your participants to see on their own devices, as well as in your Present mode.
Helpful tips
- Start your polls and surveys from Present mode
Slido’s Present mode includes a control panel. You can manage all polls, surveys, quizzes, and Q&A directly from there. See our guide for more details.
- Hide your poll results
If you’d rather not present your poll results for all to see, you can set them as hidden. Doing this will make the results visible to you as the host, but not for anyone else.
- Lock your poll voting
Sometimes you may want to stop any new votes from coming in or stop people from editing and changing their votes, but still keep discussing and displaying the results. You can do this by locking the voting.
- Share a direct link to your poll
Slido polls are designed to be manually started and stopped by a host or co-host. Because of this, there is no way to schedule a poll to automatically start or stop on its own. However, you can share a direct link to an individual poll or survey. The direct link allows someone to submit their response on their own time without you needing to start or stop the poll.
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