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Meggie from Slido
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What's new in Slido: March 2022 🐣News

Spring has finally arrived and it has not only brought sunshine and longer days, but also updates to Slido. Check out the improvements we’ve made over March and let us know what you think 🤗 Integrations ✅ Compatibility with Empower add-in in PowerPoint Our PowerPoint integration now works with the Empower add-in You can use the Empower add-in to integrate design guidelines into PowerPoint for the entire company  Live Polls  Improved reading experience in Open text polls Presenters and participants can easily scroll through responses in Open text polls and responses stay in the same position A notification appears when new responses are sent into the poll    Redesigned poll templates library The poll templates library has a new, fresh look with 135 new poll templates so whatever the use case, we’ve got it covered   

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2 years ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
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New feature: Moderator's announcements 📣

Moderator’s Announcements  This may have happened to you during your last meeting: The session was running, participants kept asking one question after another in Q&A and then you suddenly needed to share some important information with your whole audience.We are sure you somehow managed to solve that. Anyway, now it’s easier than ever before, with moderator's announcements!This feature allows you to push a notification at the top of the Participant mode with a message for everyone to see. We also support links as part of announcements, so feel free to use this feature to share various URLs with your audience. Available for Department/Professional and above plans. Learn how to create moderator announcements here.  

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Alex
3 years ago
Cori from slido
Cori from slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: June 2023Product News

Summer is here at Slido HQ and we’re keeping it fresh for you with Microsoft Teams improvements, an exciting new integration with our friends at Vidcast and changes to Slido admin.As ever, your feedback is super important to us, we’d be delighted to hear what you think!💪 💻Participant authorization in Microsoft Teams is now automatic Participants are now automatically verified on joining their Teams meeting. This means that they no longer need to: Log in with their SSO (If they use this) Or, Enter a passcode for a protected Slido This is available to all Teams users. In order to get started and use this feature, your Teams admin will need to approve the permissions in their Teams admin center. If any participant comes from a different organization or is a ‘guest’ not logged into Teams, they will be asked to enter a passcode. ▶️Slido has teamed up with Vidcast   To add to the freshness this month, the Slido and Vidcast integration is here 🎉With the Slido and Vidcast integration, you c

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Cori from slido
9 months ago
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Meggie from Slido
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What's new in Slido: April 2022 🌼News

With another month behind us, it’s time to look at how we’ve improved Slido over April. Check out the changes we’ve made and let us know what you think 😎 Q&A 🙋‍♀️ Automatically generated topics in the Q&ASlido now automatically generates topics based on questions in the Q&A Participants can filter questions using these topics This is only available for questions in English at the moment  Other 🌍 Basque now in Slido Event owners can select Basque as the language of Slido for their participants. Kaixo!  🔒 Participant anonymity in events Users can set participants to be anonymous, named by default, only named or only anonymous in their event settings Check out our tutorial for setting this up      🔐 Participant anonymity for the whole organizationLicense owners and admins can now set participants to be anonymous, named by default, only named or only anonymous in all events in their organization This setting can also be locked so that users can't change the setting in th

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1 year ago
Cori from slido
Cori from slido
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What's new in Slido: November 2023Product News

Where has the year gone? We’ve welcomed November without noticing here at Slido HQ. Our team has some exciting product releases and updates coming up that you should check out before the years out 👀. 🔍 Slido for Zoom is live The wait is over, our Integration with Zoom is here 🚀Whether you want to run an all-hands Q&A, determine priorities with a poll, or run a team building quiz, you can do all of that without leaving Zoom. There will be no switching for you or your participants. Slido for Zoom is Live  🗣️ New sidebar in Microsoft Teams You will now be able to view all your polls, surveys, quizzes, and Q&A on a single screen called My interactions. By default, Q&A is enabled. With a simplified design, the new sidebar features include: Live poll editing, easier navigation, and a better user interface Accessibility and dark mode improvements Using drag-and-drop to reorder interactions In a live meeting, you can swap SlidosUse Slido’s sidebar in Microsoft TeamsUse Teams? t

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Cori from slido
5 months ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: December & January 2022 ❄️

We’re starting the New Year strong with plenty of new features and great updates!  None of this would be possible without you, our amazing users, and your most honest and valuable feedback.  Thank you   Integrations 🤝 Cohost support for Webex - phase 2Meeting cohosts and panelists can now request to manage Slido directly from the Webex sidebar during the meeting No need to set up shared access in advance!    🔎 Filter your own events in Webex  Slido owners and admins can now filter out only their own events directly in Webex sidebar   🔧 PowerPoint integration improvements (v1.0)A new version on our PowerPoint integration (v1.0) is out! It includes proactive notifications about potential issues of add-in, better detection of network connectivity and more Live polls 🔴 Emoji support in Word cloud profanity filterThanks to your feedback, we’ve added new emojis to our profanity filter in Word Cloud Following emojis are now automatically filtered out: 🍆 🍑 💩 🖕 👅 💦 🤬 📊 Survey resul

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2 years ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: July 2021💡News

This month’s updates are super quick as our team has been enjoying the summer by taking some well-deserved time off 🌴 We’ll be back in full-swing soon!  Integrations 👉 New placeholder slides design in our Google Slides integrationWe’ve added handy poll icons to every placeholder slide to make is much simpler to see where your Slido slides are and what type of poll you’ve added to each slide. ⚠️ Clearer notifications when using our PowerPoint integration offlineWe’ve revamped our notification screen and sidebar to make it clearer when Slido is not available for you when you work on your PowerPoint slides offline Other 🤝 Collaborators for our Basic users are now enabled Event collaborators are now available for our Basic plan users Please note that there is a limit of max. 10 people you can invite to help you with your Basic event 🎥 Remote meetings video updates in Slido AcademyWe’ve added some great new videos on improving your remote meetings setup to our Slido Academy!  Let us kno

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Alex
2 years ago
Cori from slido
Cori from slido
published in Product News

Introducing Enhanced Security & Compliance for Slido (and Webex Polling) with Theta Lake 🔒News

Compliance Challenges of Deploying Audience Interaction Platforms For meeting hosts in regulated industries such as financial services, balancing productivity and compliance is a challenge as they try to lead more effective meetings and events. In regulated industries, engaging audiences through polls and Q&As also involves ensuring that their digital communications comply with retention, supervision, and review requirements. Financial services organizations, in particular, must preserve e-communications for monitoring and supervision including MiFID II,SEC 17a-4 and public disclosure requests. Archiving of all content, such as live polls, Q&As, surveys, or crowd-sourced ideas, are included in this process. Each year, regulators levy hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for failing to monitor communications. There are few compliance solutions for archiving electronic communications from audience interaction platforms such as Slido. As a result, financial services companies

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Cori from slido
1 year ago
Cori from slido
Cori from slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: March 2024Product News

Buckle up! We have some great product updates for you this March 🌼We've been busy, so here's a recap of what's new 😎 🚀 Slido for PowerPoint for macOS is finally here! The most requested and anticipated integration of all time here at Slido, has arrived 👀 and it’s looking great, even if we do say so ourselves! You can start presenting with us straight away:Install Slido for PowerPoint. You can download it here. Slido will then appear in the PowerPoint menu.   Create your polls. Insert polls, Quizzes, or even a Q&A, directly into your slides.   Your Slido attendees can then join and vote from their devices using a link or QR code.Check out our help center article for essential requirements and troubleshooting tips.  📍Smoother presentations with Slido We have a new and improved intuitive results picker, making your presentations a breeze!  Results Picker in Slido’s sidebarOur design ensures that the poll results are easily customizable and adaptable to different types of polls, s

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Cori from slido
29 days ago
Joel from Slido
Joel from Slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: October 2023Product News

 Greetings! Can you believe it’s already October? The year has been flying by and the holidays will be here before we know it. Before that though, our team has some exciting product releases and updates that we think you’ll love 😍 💡 Improved Q&A performance Believe it or not, Slido now performs much faster when managing your Q&A session (say what?!). When highlighting, archiving, or even marking questions as answered, Slido moves quicker than ever.     🔒 Slido for Windows updates We’re always working to strengthen and boost all of our integrations. This month we’ve added security upgrades and overall performance enhancements to Slido for Windows.   🌎 Region included in Organization Settings Slido license owners will now see their specific region listed within their account. Check it out by opening up your Organization settings looking under the General tab.  📣 This is especially helpful for clients who integrate their Slido data with Theta Lake and need to specify their re

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Joel from Slido
5 months ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: November 2021 🍁News

  🧩 Integrations Cohost support for WebexYou can now add your colleagues as collaborators to your Slido in the web Admin For collaborators in Webex, all they need to do is click Apps button in a Webex meeting or event and the admin view will be displayed. Slido OAuth2 support in Switcher for both Mac and WindowsThere’s a newly updated version of the Slido Switcher for both Mac and Windows with the support for more secure Slido OAuth2 authorization when logging in 📊 Live polls + Q&A New layout of image poll in Present modeYou can now choose if you want to show the image side by side next to the poll results or separately in the Present mode. Emoji support in Q&A profanity filterWe’ve added certain emojis to our profanity filter for Q&A This means that if your participants submit a question containing these emojis, it’ll be automatically filtered out and archived 🔒 Privacy Hide from search and Passcode for all plansPrivacy is one of our top priorities and so all plans are

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Alex
2 years ago
Joel from Slido
Joel from Slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: December 2023 - January 2024Product News

Can you believe it? We just said goodbye to 2023 and it’s already nearing the end of January 2024 😮But with the brand new year comes brand new Slido updates. And we have some new and exciting product releases that we just know you’ll love 😍 🎉 Slido for PowerPoint on macOS (beta) is here The wait is finally over. Our teams have been hard at work building the macOS PowerPoint integration for quite some time and we’re beyond excited to release it to you. Head on over to our Slido for PowerPoint homepage and request your early access. Slido for PowerPoint  🖼 Add images and gifs to polls in video integrations Are you using Slido’s integrations with Webex, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams? Now you can add images and gifs to your polls directly from the integration sidebar. You can search for and add images from Pexels or gifs from Giphy without ever leaving your meeting window 💪 Add gifs and images to polls The ability to upload custom images directly from your Webex, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams w

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Joel from Slido
2 months ago
Cori from slido
Cori from slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: August 2023Product News

Hello August! 👋Whilst we wonder where this year has gone 💨, here's our August product news with the latest improvements and releases! 📊Share your event analytics for longer You asked, we listened! The share link for event analytics is now valid for up to 60 days. This means any participants or colleagues you choose to share your data reports with have plenty of time to get up to speed with the insights after an event has passed.  Choose when your share link expires to AnalyticsTo share and set your expiry for the link, Select the green Share Analytics button from the right hand side of the Analytics tab in your event. A pop up like the above visual will appear on the left. Now you’re all set!  🚀 Slido Spaces is here!With Slido Spaces, you can now organize your events into teams, meetings, projects or clients. A simpler way to collaborate on recurring meetings without having to share access every time. Find out more about how you can bring teamwork and collaboration to another level

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Cori from slido
8 months ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: September 2021 💪

Integrations 🎉 PowerPoint integration is out of BETAWe’re excited to share that our PowerPoint integration has moved out of BETA and is now available for all users of Windows 10 and PowerPoint 2013 (and later)!  🕹 New Slido button in Google Slides navigation barThere’s a new Slido button in the bottom navigation bar in Google Slides that allows you to display Slido whenever you want during your presentation. Note - this button works only if using our Slido Chrome Extention as well. ⚠️ Ideas disabled in Webex integrationIdeas BETA was removed from our Webex integration sidebar because we're getting ready for a redesign which will affect the Ideas BETA functionality.Live polls 😃 Emoji picker for live pollsIt is now easier than ever to add an emoji to your response in a live poll with our new emoji picker. It’s available in the Slido desktop app and Webex integration. Please note that on mobile, participants need to use the emoji keyboard to insert an emoji. ✍️ Translation of textual e

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Alex
2 years ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: August 2021✌️

Webex integration Product News  We’re excited to announce that we’re officially rolling out Slido’s integration with Webex Meetings   From now on, you can interact with your audience using Slido’s live polling, quizzes, and Q&A feature right within your Webex Meetings.Here’s a full article on how to set up and use this integration.And here are 11 tips for using Slido in your Webex Meetings.  Other Product News  New placeholder slides in PowerPoint integrationWe’ve added handy poll icons to every placeholder slide to make it much simpler to see where your Slido slides are and what type of poll you’ve added to each slide.  New joining slides in Google Slides and PowerPoint integrationThere’s now an easier way to add joining instructions to your presentation by simply adding a joining slide directly from the integration sidebar. This slide will include all the important information about how your participants can join Slido, including the event and QR code.  New version of Switcher fo

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2 years ago
Slido Team
Slido Team
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New pre-meeting and voting experience in Slido for Microsoft Teams

We’re excited to share recent updates to Slido for Microsoft Teams which helps make the experience better for both hosts and participants.  Enlarged layout for pre-meeting preparationPreparation for your meeting with Slido in the Teams calendar is now more intuitive and organized. You can add your interactions from the left sidebar, and create, edit and preview the Slido content in the main area.   Preparing Slido in Teams calendar Improved voting experienceWhen you launch or deactivate a poll, a chat notification is sent to the meeting chat. Your participants can vote on an active poll after clicking the Send your vote button, which opens the Slido sidebar. These chat notifications replace the previous experience using pop-ups. Previous experience with pop-ups for voting New experience using chat notifications with a button for voting As a host, you will no longer vote in the poll directly in Teams. Clicking the call-to-action in adaptive card opens the Slido sidebar to an admin view,

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Ondrej from Slido
14 days ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: October 2021 🎃

  Live polls We’ve refreshed the look of our poll modal and made it even easier to add images to any polls.   Q&AYou can now enable Question topics in Slido Labs. This new feature automatically generates topics from your questions so that you and your participants can easily navigate through larger amounts of questions during Q&A.   🏢 Organizational SettingsWe’ve added the option for account owners to enable or disable their users exporting data to Google sheets. This allows you to prevent your data being held on Google’s platform.    Let us know what you think about our latest updates in the comments below! 

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Alex
2 years ago
Cori from slido
Cori from slido
published in Product News

Make sense of your meetings with the new Analytics ✨New Feature

We’re happy to share our latest rollout, Slido’s new Analytics with you, where you can improve your understanding and gain valuable insights of your meetings 📊Our redesigned event Analytics lets you see how your meetings are performing. You can better understand how engaged your participants are, analyze trends in the data, and share the results with your team. With Analytics, you can now: Compare engagement levels across multiple meetings Discover trends behind the numbers and sentiment of your Q&A Quickly share your poll results and Q&A topics as imagesWe’ve introduced a fully redesigned page to help you make sense of the data you collect. So, what kind of insights can you gain about your meetings?Deepen your understanding of participant engagement, overall, in polls, and in Q&A sessions Explore trends in the data and get a sense of participant sentiment Create customizable data reports (previously known as infographics) to share the results via a link     Compare the su

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Cori from slido
11 months ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: March 2021 🙌News

 Collaboration  Event collaborators are now part of all our plans - including Basic planYou can now invite guest collaborators into your events and have them help you moderate the questions or manage polls and quizzes  Integrations Improvements to Google Slides and PowerPoint integrationsNew sidebar design in both integrations is now available to all users! You can decide how you want to show results of a poll right when creating it And, delete a poll directly from the sidebar in both Google Slides and PowerPoint  Polls Improvements to the Ranking Poll, Word Cloud and Quizzes Your participants can now cast their vote without having to rank all the options in a Ranking poll  Improved performance of Word Cloud polls and Quizzes in admin Participant experience New language added and improvements to participant app You can change the language of the participant view from English to Latin America Spanish for your attendees    Let us know what you think about our latest updates in the commen

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Alex
2 years ago
Cori from slido
Cori from slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: April 2024Product News

The month of April brings more exciting product updates from Slido HQ 🎉There has been a lot going on, so here's a summary of everything that's new in our world 🌎 🗳️ Improved voting experience in Microsoft Teams To provide your Microsoft Teams participants with the best experience, we've made voting easy! Voting options in Microsoft TeamsWhat’s changed:No more pop-ups for voting: The meeting chat is notified when a host activates or deactivates a poll.   Chat notifications: A notification will appear in the Teams chat window, prompting attendees to go directly to the poll. Incase you miss it, a red dot will also appear on the Slido icon to indicate that the poll is active.   See your interactions history easily: The new poll notifications that appear in Teams chat, allows everyone in the meeting to follow along with questions asked and open and closed polls, even after the meeting ends!you can see a full overview of Slido’s changes to Microsoft Teams in our showcase article and try i

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Cori from slido
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