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Peter Novak
Peter Novak
posted in Product News

Suggesting random options for quiz questions

Slido can help create Quizzes faster by suggesting (im)plausible options Suggestions for your Quiz questionApr 1st 2021For your next Quiz, Slido can help you find potential options for your questions. The suggestions are just one click away and you can finish the preparation of the Quiz much quicker. Creating a good Quiz is a time-consuming job. Even when you come up with a good question and the correct answer, searching for the incorrect options can be very demanding.  With the help of a Text Generation model, we are able to suggest options for your Quiz questions. While they can be generated using just the Quiz question, they will immediately improve once you provide the correct or incorrect answer(s). The model has been trained on public Slido Quizzes. “Our goal is to save your precious time while creating the Quiz and possibly also increase the fun element of it.” (Peter, Product Manager) All you have to do is to type in your Quiz question. The suggestions will be displayed once yo

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Peter Novak
3 years ago
Slido Team
Slido Team
published in Product News

Slido in Webex has a new look 🎉News

We made a few changes to Slido admin sidebar in Webex to improve your experience during meetings and webinars.  Introducing new look of Slido sidebar in WebexUpdated 4 November: You can select from multiple rooms you created in advance in Slido directly in Webex sidebarUpdated 2 November: We’re turning on the new sidebar for everyone and multiple rooms are coming in mid November!Updated 26 May: The new sidebar in Webex is now live for everyone by default!Updated 20 July: New settings were added to the Slido sidebar in Webex On December 1, 2022 we turned on the new look for everyone and removed the option to switch between the two versions.  What’s new: Intuitive user experience and modern look New polls design, support for quiz and results download Localization support Intuitive user experience and modern lookThe new interface is designed specifically for use in Webex. It’s simplified and easy to navigate. If you’re yet to get to know Slido, tooltips and system messages will help you g

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1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

Introducing Slido Spaces 🤝new feature

We’re thrilled to introduce our easiest collaboration feature yet: Slido Spaces.  Spaces allow you to categorize and share meetings with your colleagues automatically - without the hassle of inviting everyone manually. What’s more, you can say goodbye to an endless list of events in your dashboard. Spaces let you organize your events based on a meeting type, project, team or client – whatever suits you best. So, how does it work?  Create a space and give it a name, e.g. All-hands meetings or Execs Invite the relevant members of your organization into this space Create and work on Slido events all with the same access rights  What can you do in Spaces? Categorize your events based on a team, meeting, project, client etc. Easily collaborate on recurring meetings without having to share access every time Benefit from space-specific analytics, templates, settings and more (Coming in future)  Who can use Spaces?Spaces are available to all customers on our Enterprise and Institution

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1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: June 2021 👏News

Integrations 🎨 Customize Slido in Google Slides & PowerPoint integrationsYou can now customize your Slido look directly from the Google Slides and PowerPoint sidebars either by gallery themes or by choosing your own custom theme. No need to open Slido settings! 🔗 Open Present mode from video integrationsWe added a new present button to our video integrations sidebar that opens Slido Present mode in a new browser tab to make sharing your Slido Wall even easier.  Other Emojis in SlidoEmojis are now supported in all Slido polls! Both for participants and admins. 🔒 Random event passcode generator in both Event & Organization settingsYou can automatically add a layer of protection to all your future events by enabling random Event passcode generator in your Organization settings. Passcodes for events can also be randomly generated for individual events in your Event settings This means that your participants will need this Event passcode to access your events.Change language in

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Meggie from Slido
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What's new in Slido: August 2022 🚀News

Grab your favorite sweater and watch the leaves turn brown because September is here! But before we return to school and the office, let’s take a look at how we improved Slido over the past month. Check out our August updates and let us know what you think 😎 Got a question about these updates, our product roadmap or a feature you’d love to see in Slido? Let us know in Community and sign up to our product event for a chance to get answers from our GM Peter Komornik or our Head of Product Peter Krajnak.​​​ Integrations 🖐 Drag and drop polls in WebexYou can now drag and drop polls and change their order directly in the Webex sidebar   🔐 Switcher for Mac now more secure We updated Switcher for Mac to support a more secure logging in process   💻 Passcode and link to your Slido event available directly in PowerPoint  It is now easier than ever to get your event link and passcode in PowerPoint as both are available in the sidebar    🖥 Passcode and link to your Slido event available in Go

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1 year ago
Juraj Pal
Juraj PalSlido Head of Product
published in Product News

Highlights from Slido Product Event: Building the future of presentations together

Transforming how meetings are run around the world is what drives Slido's mission. It's also the thread woven into our Product Events where we preview new products and look at how our customers use Slido.  Check out the full recording and let us know what you think about the announcements we made. We’re here to answer any questions! Here's a look back at the Slido Product Event this week, along with an update on our direction to build the future of presentations.Slido and G Suite work togetherWith our Google Slides integration that we launched last October, presenters can very easily add interactions right as they're working on their slides. But with all the meetings happening over video these days, we wanted to take this further and tie the whole experience together with Google Meet. Our updated Chrome extension will bring Slido right into your Google Meet meeting so that you as well as your participants on your call won't have to leave anywhere to interact with Slido polls and questi

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Cori from slido
Cori from slido
published in Product News

What’s new in Slido: July 2022 🌞News

Schools out for summer 🏫 , but that doesn’t stop our teams here at Slido! See what we’ve been working on and what’s improved for our users in July. As always, we’d love to know what you think! 💡 Integrations 🔒 Keeping your presentations in PowerPoint securePowerPoint has joined the switch to authenticate users with Slido TheAuth, our new internal Slido app. Why not try Slido for PowerPoint and see how it works for you.  🔗 Integration with Webex personal devices & Advanced settingsSlido for Webex (Participants only) is now available on Webex personal devices registered to the specific user with RoomOS 10.16.1.6 or later. On top of that, you can now access Slido’s advanced settings such as privacy, Q & A and live polls through Webex directly.  Live Polls 📊 Topics for Open text polls are now available in Slido LabsEver wanted to see the common topics and themes that your participants share in polls? Now you can do just that! Toggle on OpenText topics in your event settings un

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Cori from slido
1 year ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: May 2023Product news

The summer is fast approaching here at Slido HQ but we’re not slowing down just yet! This month’s updates include the all new Analytics, and Google Slides and PowerPoint integrations improvements.We love hearing your feedback and can’t wait to hear what you think! 💪 📊 New Slido AnalyticsWe’ve redesigned our event Analytics, and you can now see how your meetings are performing -  allowing you to better understand how engaged your participants are, analyze trends in the data, and share the results with your team. With Analytics, you can now: Track the engagement of participants in polls and Q&A Discover trends behind the numbers and sentiment of your Q&A Quickly share your poll results and Q&A topics as imagesLearn more about the all new Slido Analytics 👇📤 New Data Report in AnalyticsThis new features replaces Infographics and allows you to share, with a link, any combination of engagement overview, Q&A insights or Poll insights.You can create or disable new sharing l

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

What's new in Slido: July 2023Product News

Schools out for the Summer break, but we’re still ticking over here at Slido, bringing you the latest improvements and releases in July’s product news! 🎉 🗣️Apps support for anonymous (guest) participants in Teams Participants not logged in to their Microsoft accounts or guests that would usually need to join through a browser now get the full Slido experience. It's now seamless for guests to join Teams from a browser. No more switching between tabs!Guest participants can now: Use the sidebar Receive popups See Present mode with share to stage on Microsoft Teams   Guest participants in Teams  Schedule a Teams meeting with Slido and try it out or learn more about how to use Slido for Teams. 🖵 New Slido launch screen in WebexTo continue with the theme of updates, we have a new launch screen in Webex 🚀Slido Q&A can now be added as an interaction to your meetings from the Webex sidebar.  Slido in WebexQ: What does this mean for you? A: This means, there are no tabs to switch between

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Meggie from Slido
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What's new in Slido: October 2022 🎃News

The weather is starting to cool down so snuggle up and keep warm with our hot-off-the-press product news. Check out how we improved Slido during October and let us know what you think by commenting below 🤗 Live polls 🎨 Word cloud animationThe word cloud is now even more magical with its smooth, animated movement ⚙️ Rating poll now customizable When setting up a rating poll, you can now choose whether you want participants to send their ratings as stars or emojis and you can also set labels for low and high scores    Using emojis in a rating poll  ⚡️ Multiple choice poll improvements Marking an option as correct in a multiple choice poll is now even easier as you just need to click on the circle next to the option  Marking an option as correct in a multiple choice poll  Integrations 💬 Typing indicator available in Webex The Webex integration sidebar now shows when participants are typing their responses in live polls   🔥 Webex sidebar improvements  The Webex sidebar also allows you

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Meggie from Slido
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What's new in Slido: June 2022 🌈News

Summer is fast approaching but not even the warm weather could slow down our dedicated teams. Check out how we improved Slido during June and let us know what you think 😎 Integrations 🔎 Showing survey results now possible in WebexMeeting hosts can now easily display survey results, one question at a time, in the Webex integration 🙋‍♀️ Participants can launch polls in Webex Any participant in a Webex meeting can now launch Slido and create polls This was previously only possible for meeting hosts  🖼 Images in polls can now be enlarged in Webex No more squinting at your screen! It is now possible to enlarge images in polls directly from the Webex sidebar   Enlarging image polls on Webex  Live polls 🧑‍💻 Participant names now visible in Open text polls Open text polls now show participant names so everyone can see who contributed each submission If you don’t want to show participant names, this feature can be disabled or participants can always submit as anonymous   Displaying pa

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

What's new in Slido: September 2022 🍂News

Term time is in full swing, all the leaves are brown and the pumpkin spiced lattes are flowing at Slido HQ! 🎃 Let’s take a look at what our teams brought us in September, we’d love your feedback! Integrations 🔗 Slido for Windows add-in support for global deployment There’s now a  brand new update to our Slido for Windows/PowerPoint add-in with support for global deployment. This means multiple regions! Slido for Windows Add-In Q&A 🗑 Withdraw a reply in Q&AWas your question answered in a meeting before they got to your reply? No problem! Participants can now withdraw any of their replies to a Q&A question. Just go to the right of the question and select ‘withdraw.’ Withdraw a reply in Q&A Live Polls ✍️ Typing indicator for Polls in Slido admin mode Make sure everyone has their say! You can now see when your participants are typing their responses to Open Text Polls in admin mode. This also applies to Surveys and Ranking Polls. Typing Indicator in admin mode Other 🆕 A

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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: January 2023product news

Happy New Year, Slido community! 🎉 We hope you’ve had a restful holiday season and we’d like to thank you for your feedback, suggestions and questions in 2022 💚 If we learned anything last year, it’s that collaboration is absolutely crucial in every team. To start off the year, we’re partnering with Pexels to bring you a library of free images for your polls. We’re also releasing Spaces, a brand new feature for collaboration, improving your MS Teams integration experience and enhancing security with Theta Lake 🚀 🎨 Pexels in Slido: Bring Your Polls to Life with Free ImagesYou can now choose from hundreds of thousands of royalty-free images and add them to your poll in one click! ✨  If you want to use an image poll but don’t have an image to upload, the Pexels integration provides you with a vast library of images you can add instead.➡️ Learn more about how to use Pexels in Slido here and get 7 Tips on taking your polls to the next level with Pexels here.  ⚡️Collaborating even easier

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Joel from Slido
Joel from Slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: May 2024

May has been a busy month for our teams at Slido and we’re excited to share what we’ve been up to 💚 See the latest updates below, plus learn a little bit about what’s to come 😉 📣 A new Slido interface is on the way We’ve been designing a brand new interface for our users and it’s finally ready to be released. Sign up for a training session to learn all about it! Slido’s new and improved interface Why the change? We wanted to simplify things for our users. So we went to work designing a more intuitive experience that focused on ease of use, efficiency, and productivity. New users can now create slidos 30% faster than before! What else should I know?The new interface is gradually rolling out to all users starting in June  See our recent Community post to learn more We’re offering a series of trainings throughout the next few months – and we encourage anyone and everyone to sign up   And in other news... 🔴 Red dot notifications for Slido in Microsoft Teams Slido for Microsoft Teams no

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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

Introducing Pexels in Slido: Bring Your Polls to Life with Free Images by Pexels 🖼️

Slido has teamed with Pexels - the source of free images, to bring creativity to your live polls.You can now choose from the hundreds of thousands freely-usable pictures and add any image to your poll in one click!Excited? So are we! Here’s how Pexels work in Slido: Create a poll. Click ‘Upload an image’. Choose your preferred image from the library. Hit save.  Once you’re ready to run the poll, display it on full screen and encourage your audience to vote. You can manage your polls easily via the handy control panel at the bottom of your screen.  👍 TipKeep the poll results hidden while your teammates send in their votes. Only once you’re ready to display the voting results on screen, hit ‘Show results’.  Why should you try Pexels in Slido?If you have previously used Slido’s image polls, the Pexels integration will provide you with an additional advantage - besides uploading your own image into a poll, you will now be able to choose from a vast library of readily available image

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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: May 2021 💪

 Integrations🔗 PowerPoint installer for enterprise clients  As an administrator, you can now install Slido for Windows (PowerPoint Add-in) using our MSI file. This is great for big organizations with many Slido users, as you can now do a bulk installation for all of them! Also, with available command line parameters, you can turn off update notifications for the end users or execute a silent installation. This gives IT admins much more control over the installation experience of Slido PowerPoint add-in.  Polls📊 New Word cloud results in Admin viewThis new Word cloud view in your admin shows the results in both a Word Cloud and a list of words grouped together, and you can see the exact same Word Cloud in your admin as your participants see on their devices or the Present view.  By grouping the same responses together, it is now much easier to delete unwanted words from your Present view in case you need to. 🎉 Confetti in Quiz leaderboardA fun little update to give your winners som

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Meggie from Slido
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What's new in Slido: February 2022 💗News

Check out how we’ve improved Slido over February! Let us know what you think. Integrations  Redesigned sidebar in Webex  The Slido admin sidebar in the Webex integration has a new look designed for an unbeatable experience in Webex Hosts need to enable the new look manually by toggling on the option directly in the sidebar in Webex   New design for action bar in Webex We have redesigned the bar at the bottom of the Webex sidebar that lets hosts launch, activate and create polls and more It now adapts to the context of the interaction and the host’s needs   Request to manage Slido now available in Webex Meeting co-hosts and panelists can request to manage Slido directly from the new Webex sidebar during the meeting  No need to set up shared access in advance   PowerPoint integration changes in operating system support Our PowerPoint integration does not support operating systems older than Windows 10 anymore This includes Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1   PowerPoint integratio

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2 years ago
Cori from slido
Cori from slido
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What's new in Slido: March 2023Product News

The clocks have changed for some of us around the world, but that hasn’t stopped us working hard here at Slido HQ! 🕛It's time to share your poll results. This month, we've been improving our analytics to make sharing easier and more visually appealing, as well as some neat improvements to our Microsoft Teams integrations and Webex Q&A.We’re big fans of feedback here at Slido, feel free to share your thoughts! 🗣️ 📊More improvements to Analytics and Polls Introducing our new section of event analytics, the aim of which is to provide you with an easier way to digest and share the results of your polls in Slido.  Poll Insights User view As an extra convenience, you can also download and/or copy the poll images to your clipboard that you can then present in a slide deck, an email, or even your internal messaging system. Screenshots are a thing of the past! Download image or copy to clipboard Event analytics for US Slido events are now fully supported by US1 Cluster 🚀 Microsoft Teams

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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: April 2023Product News

It’s official! The days are finally getting warmer in CET and we’re full of excitement for sunshine at Slido HQ. To brighten your days further, check out some exciting improvements we’ve made this month, particularly to our Q&A feature and Teams integration. We can’t wait to hear what you think! 🌞 💡Q&A topics are out of Beta and Slido Labs Have you had your share of answering the duplicated questions in Q&A? Say no more! Our Q&A topics are now automatically available for questions submitted in English. If a certain topic or keyword is repeated in at least three live questions, it will become a filter in the Q&A section. Topics in Slido You can use these topics to filter duplicate questions or address similar questions in one go.  🚀 Voting in Microsoft Teams pop-up during presentationsHow about adding some much-needed “pop” to your Teams meetings? Microsoft Teams now opens Slido as a pop-up for participants when polls are automatically activated during your Google

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1 year 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
Cori from slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido, recap edition: September 2023Product News

The time has flown here at Slido HQ, so now you’re fresh and ready to settle into your end of year routines.For now, we’d love to share something new for September then recap what features you may have missed over the Summer. 🔒Changes to SAML SSO for Participants SAML Based SSO We have simplified our process of SAML SSO setup, making things easier for you and your organization. How does it work?Centralization & simplification: Only Slido admins and account owners can upload the SAML XML file into the organization settings. Once this is set on the organization level, end-users won’t be able to work with SAML XML file anymore, as it will be automatically propagated from the organization settings.   Improved privacy: Slido admins and account owners can enforce SAML SSO on all events in the organization (including all past and future events) without the exceptions of any individual event.  👉 Check out our Community article on all things SSO for more info 👈 🎥 A Reminder: Zoom is com

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Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

Introducing Required questions in Surveys 🎉

You can now make questions mandatory to answer when sharing Surveys with your audience!  Here’s how you can set it up in Slido admin 👉Go to your Polls and open up or create a Survey. On the right hand side, simply toggle on Required question for those questions that you’d like to make mandatory for your participants to answer. Activate the Survey and share your event or the link to the Survey with your audience.  And here’s what your audience will see 👉If someone tries to submit the survey while skipping required questions, Slido will automatically highlight the ones that are mandatory in red and won’t let them send their answers until all of them are filled in.   That’s it! You can pick and choose which questions you’d like to make mandatory to answer, or even make all of them required.  We see many clients using required questions for collecting feedback after strategic meetings, such as all-hands or quarterly reviews. This is to make sure that they collect the opinions of even tho

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Cori from slido
Cori from slido
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: February 2024Product News

This month, our Product news is short and sweet, much like February 🍬 Here’s what we’ve been up to, and what updates you can expect to see 👀 🎉 A new home for Slido Integrations Explore all Slido integrations in one place and learn more about their functionality to start using Slido in your preferred tool!Using PowerPoint, Teams, or Zoom?Go to Event settings and you’ll see the Integrations tab between Customization and Slido labs 👏 Integrations in Event Settings  ✨ Improvements to the Integrations tab Running with the theme of integrations this month, we’ve made some improvements to our settings in the left hand menu of Slido, as well as a super colorful overview page. How cool is that? Improvements to Integrations Integrations are now mobile friendly and accessible with alignment and integrations now appearing in the mobile menu, too 📱 🗨️ Windows Update for Slido for PowerPointRecommended for all of our users, there’s an update and some bug fixes for PowerPoint 🧰These include: F

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Meggie from Slido
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What's new in Slido: May 2022 ⚡️News

Fresh off the press, here’s our monthly Product news! Check out how we improved Slido during May and let us know what you think 😎 Integrations 🖼️️️️  New layout of image polls in Google slides and PowerPoint Images now appear side by side with polls in our Google Slides and PowerPoint integrations by default You can still show images before polls if you wish   🧑‍🎨 Fresh look now default in Webex The redesigned Slido admin experience in Webex is now enabled by default for all hosts 🚀 Quizzes have arrived to Webex 🎉 Quizzes are finally available in our redesigned Webex sidebar Live polls⏳ Open text responses appear one at a time Instead of pouring in all at once, participants’ responses in open text polls now appear one by one   💬 Present mode shows if participants are typing live Present mode now shows when participants are typing their answers in open text and word cloud polls   Other 🔐 New internal authorization app We developed TheAuth - a new internal app which aligns Slid

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2 years ago
Alex
AlexSlido Community Manager
published in Product News

What's new in Slido: April 2021 🚀News

Polls Random Quiz options (BETA): You can now create quizzes faster, without searching for the incorrect options. The new magic wand button will suggest potential options for your quiz questions, so you can spend less time creating and more time playing. Available for everyone with quizzes in English.  Integrations Automatic access sharing for Google Slides integration and improvements to PowerPoint integration: People who are Editors in your Google Slides presentation will automatically get Guest access to the Slido event connected with the presentation - they just need to log in to their Slido account.  Also, the sidebar in our Google Slides integration has been completely redesigned  The PowerPoint integration has a new installer with more stable updates, new design, and Slido button appearing in PowerPoint automatically without having to launch it  Participant experience New languages, 6 digit event codes, and Present mode updates:You can now change the language of the Participan

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