Integrate Slido with Google Slides and start adding polls and quizzes directly to your presentation. You'll be able to display the results and audience questions on your slides in real time.
In this article:
Install our Add-on and open it
Please note: For Slido polls to work, you need to be presenting from a Google account that has the Slido add-on installed. For optimum results, this works best alongside the chrome extension too!
- Install our add-on
- Click Add-ons, select Slido for Google Slides and Open the sidebar
- Choose a session you want to work with or create a new one
Having trouble with the Add-on? Scroll all the way down to find our troubleshooting guide
Install our Slido Chrome extension
For seamless presenting, install our extension for Google Chrome along with the add-on.
It is not required but it ensures that your animations, transitions, videos and GIFs all work well when presenting with our Slido for Google Slides add-on.
Read more about the integration's limitations, some of which can be fixed by installing our Chrome extension.
Add live polls and Q&A to your presentation
In the sidebar, you can Add a live poll, Add a quiz or Add a Q&A slide.
An #eventcode meant for your participants to join the Slido event will be added to all of your slides in the upper right corner when presenting.
For polls and quizzes:
A new slide will be added to your presentation whenever you create a poll or a quiz. When you get to a Slido poll slide in your presentation, the poll will be activated automatically and your audience will be able to vote in real time.
For Audience Q&A:
As with polls, when you add Q&A, a new slide will be created. Audience Q&A will be open throughout your whole presentation and the questions will be displayed once you get to the Q&A slide.
Customize your slides
You can change the theme of Slido slides, set custom colors or upload a custom background image directly in Google Slides.
- Click on the hamburger menu icon in the top left of the sidebar
- Select Customize
- Select your theme or click Edit and select custom colours or upload a background image
How to present with Slido
To start presenting your slideshow, remember to click the Present with Slido button in the sidebar.
If you're using our Chrome extension, you can use the regular Present button.
When displaying your poll results you can choose between:
- Show immediately: The poll results are displayed as soon as you get to your slide with the poll.
- Show on click: The poll itself is displayed automatically when you get to your slide with the poll. Advancing one more click will display the poll results (see the GIF below).
- Do not show: The poll itself is displayed automatically when you get to your slide with the poll. Advancing one more click will take you to the next slide in your presentation without showing the poll results.
- Zoom In/Out: If you want to display several poll results that don’t fit to the present screen, you can zoom in and out while presenting
- Image polls: If you add images to your polls, you can choose to show the image and poll side by side, show the image before results or not show the results
Ask your audience to join
The #eventcode for your participants to join the event is displayed either in your sidebar or on all your slides in the upper right corner while presenting.
Ask your audience to enter the #eventcode at slido.com to join the event. They will then be able to vote in the polls and participate in the Q&A.
Access settings
Some event settings like privacy or branding can only be changed via Slido admin. To access event settings:
- Click on the hamburger menu icon in the top left of the sidebar
- Click on the event name
- Select Open additional settings
- Slido admin opens in a new tab
It is currently not possible to unlink a Slido event from the Google Slides presentation, but you can reuse the event or add a new session to your presentation.
Troubleshooting
Here is a list of the most common issues and how to fix them:
- The sidebar says “Drive refuses to connect”.
Solution: Log out of Chrome and log in again. Alternatively, you can try to use the same Google account in both Google Drive and Chrome.
- I can’t see the add-on or I only see Help in the menu.
Solution: Refresh the Google Slides presentation and make sure you’ve installed the add-on to the Google account that you use for presentations.
- I opened my .pptx file in Google Slides, but I can’t see the add-on
Solution: In Google Slides, create a “blank” presentation. Then, click File > Import Slides and Upload the preferred PowerPoint presentation from your computer. Then, select all slides you want to import to Google Slides.
- I can’t log in to the add-on. It just keeps loading.
Solution: Create a new Google Slides presentation or Make a copy of the existing one and log in there.
- The sidebar says the presentation is linked to another account and I can’t log in.
Solution: Make a copy of the Google Slides presentation. Either someone else created Slido in the presentation or you created it with a different account.
- I can’t install the Chrome extension to my account.
Solution: See if your company admin can help you with the installation and share with them this guide.
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