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Slido is gradually rolling out a new user interface. If the below steps and visuals match what you are seeing within your account, then you are using the new interface and this article is for you. If not, please see this version.

 

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.

This article explains all the different poll types, plus quizzes and surveys. For more information about running, managing, and testing your polls, see our All about live polls guide.

 

In this article:

 

How to start

 

To get a poll set up, you must first create a slido. Then select a poll type under Add new interaction, enter your poll question, and watch as it saves automatically. 

 

Create your first poll

 

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. 

 

Want to 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 using the drag icon 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

 

 

Curious about more?

 

 

hi, 

How to show the leaderboard each time they submit the answer?

Hey @Ilovesoftware ,

You can also choose to show the leaderboard after a each round of questions as long as you have it marked off on those Quiz questions.

Let us know if this helps!

Best,

Hey @christinaclemente,

Our quiz feature always require a name and you can see who voted how in exports, all you need to do is to download “Poll results per user” - plus there will leaderboard of top 5 contestants at the end of the quiz. 

If you have it set up as Survey, I’d recommend set up first question of the Survey as an open text poll, asking for name. That way you can see who voted how in the same export as I mentioned above. Just a note, there won’t be leaderboard, only quiz have that feature. Alternative solution would be to set privacy settings to “Always require name”.

When it comes to Quiz, or Survey, the participant limits of your event applies. So with the Professional plan, that would be 1000 participants.

Please, accept my apology for late reply, we’re sorry about that, your question must have slipped our radar.

Hope this helps! 

Using Slido Multiple Choice Quiz in Webex, without QR code:  

Hi Would like to reuse the same quizzes in Webex for the same training ( various groups with the same training class and information and quizzes) 

This quiz needs to run in Webex. The end user cannot leave webex to run a qr code to access an external site. 

The quiz needs to be reset and reused again. 

I have not yet located the instructions on how to launch the same quizzes in webex. Can you please post that link on how to: P

1: Prepare the quiz ahead of time to launch directly in Webex. 

2: Reset the quiz in preparation to launch it again in webex at a later time

 

Thank you

Hey @Celia Trubey ,

You can create your Slido ahead of time and then link it to your Webex meeting. 

After your meeting, you can reset the Quiz from slido.com within that Slido and then add it to the next meeting as a fresh Quiz.

Let us know if this helps.

Best,

Hi, do slido surveys allow you to create a rating matrix? Example below

 

Hey @ChiaraT ,

I would suggest using a Rating Poll to ask these types of questions in your Survey.

Let us know if this helps!

Best,

I think this page could be improved by going beyond describing a feature and providing more context and use cases.

e.g., Contrast a ranking poll with multiple choice poll?

You want your audience to stack rank their preference

or

You poll the audience on what matters most to them (allow multi-selection)

 

Thanks,

Peter

@Back_that_SaaS_Up 

Hi Peter,

Appreciate the feedback! This article is specifically intended to demonstrate how to create each different poll type. But with that said, I completely understand where you’re coming from – sometimes it’s tough to determine which type will work best for what you’re wanting to achieve.

 

I’d highlight out blog post about selecting the best poll types for your specific events or meetings. You could also read through some of our published use cases on our site. And lastly, if you check out our Best Practices discussions, you’ll find even more use cases with specific suggestions for polls.

 

I hope this helps!

Hi there,

I want to run a Poll at a conference with 160 people … can I do this with the basic package?

Thanks, Declan

@Declan  Look at the pricing page and you’ll see what’s required. The short answer is NO as Basic includes - 

  • Up to 100 participants
  • Basic Audience Q&A
  • 3 polls per slido

You can either (1) purchase a one time use upgrade or (2) purchase the next level of plan which isn’t very much IMO ($210/year). https://www.slido.com/pricing?plan=annual

 

The key limitation as you move up plans relates to the number of admin users. But remember that once you create a slido, you can share it with other people and they can edit questions / polls to help you do it. And they can drive / run surveys as long as you give them access / invite them. But you the admin will have to share out the results or at least that’s what I’ve found while doing it.  Good luck!

Hello @Declan 

our Basic plan is designed for events with up to 100 active participants. In case you are expecting more than 100 active participants I would advice purchasing our Engage one-time plan unless you are planning to use Slido on an annual basis. 

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