How to use Slido for PowerPoint

  • 24 August 2020
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Integrate Slido with your PowerPoint presentation to include live polls, quizzes and Q&A sessions directly in your slides. The Slido sidebar allows you to create and edit your interactions without ever leaving PowerPoint.

 

 

If something’s not working for you, please see the current limitations and check out our troubleshooting guides (Windows or macOS)

 

In this article:


 

System requirements

 

Make sure that your computer meets the following requirements so that Slido for PowerPoint runs properly.


Windows:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 or later
  • Windows 10 22H2 or later

If you’re a Windows administrator for your organization, check out our specific guide for admins. This includes more detailed system requirements, plus instructions for installing Slido for PowerPoint on Windows for your entire org.

 

macOS:

  • macOS 12.0 or later
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 or later updated to v.16.78

 

Download and install the integration

  1. Download Slido for PowerPoint
  2. Install it on your computer
  3. Launch it
     

Please note: You’ll need to follow these steps on each computer you are using to create or present your presentation. For your polls to work correctly you must first install Slido and ensure you are logged in through the sidebar. If you followed these steps and still have issues, please see our guides for troubleshooting (Windows or macOS).

 

 

Open the sidebar in PowerPoint


Now open your PowerPoint presentation and you'll see the Slido button appear in the Home tab. Click it to log in with your Slido account.
 

Don’t see the button? Restart PowerPoint.

 

 

 

Add live polls, quizzes, and Q&A to your presentation


To Add a live poll, select an option in the sidebar, type your question, and add options. To start creating your quiz questions click Add a quiz. There will be a leaderboard at the end. To display audience questions Add a Q&A slide.

 

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After you save your poll question, you can set your results to appear immediately, on click, or to hide them completely from your audience.

  • 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.
     
  • 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

 

 

 

 

 

If you need to access additional settings (eg privacy), open the sidebar, click on the event name and select Open additional settings.

 

 

Customize your slides


To change the theme of Slido slides, set custom colors or upload a custom background image directly in PowerPoint:

  1. Click on the hamburger menu icon in the top left of the sidebar
  2. Select Customize
  3. Select your theme or click Edit and select custom colours or upload a background image



Start presenting


Once you've finished preparing your slides and you're ready to go, start your slideshow.

The poll will appear automatically and the results will update in real time on your slide and on the participant devices.
 


 

Ask your audience to join


The poll and Q&A slides automatically include a Slido event code and QR code that the participants will use to join your session and participate.


 

Collaborating on a presentation


If you’re preparing the presentation with someone else, they’ll be able to see the Slido interaction slides as well.

First of all, make sure that you have the AutoSave option enabled in PowerPoint. This will sync the file either with your OneDrive or SharePoint account. You can then share the presentation with your colleague.

 

In order for the presentation to run properly with Slido, it is needed that:

  • The person presenting has our Slido for PowerPoint app installed
  • The person presenting has access to the Slido event which is linked to the presentation. This can be achieved either by requesting access to the event via the sidebar (as shown below) or by adding the person to the event in Slido Admin.

 

It is currently not possible to unlink a Slido event from the Powerpoint presentation, but you can reuse the event or add a new session to your presentation.

 

 


 

Switch session and/or organization

 

If you’ve linked an incorrect Slido event with your PowerPoint slide deck, you can:

  1. Open the hamburger menu in the sidebar
  2. Click on Switch session
  3. Select the event you wish to link with your PowerPoint (Note: if the event is under a different Slido organization, switch to it first in the upper right corner)


 

View analytics and download results

 

Explore your Slido analytics and export your questions and poll results by opening the Slido sidebar hamburger menu > Download results. 
 

Downloading Slido results

 

 

Curious about more?

 

 

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See how others are using Slido

 

42 replies

Ondrej from Slido
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Hello @Mona A as there can be multiple factors would it be possible to approach support@slido.com with some screenshots as well? They will be able to assist quicker. 

- Ondrej
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Hi I gave access to my PPT and Slido to another user with a slido account. However, she is unable to insert the slido poll created in her slido account. How can we access her slido polls and incorporate it in the PPT.

Ondrej from Slido
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Hello @MJD 

you can fix the order of poll options for a specific event if you open settings in Powerpoint sidebar and then you would open advanced settings of your event. Another way of accessing this is going to slido.com website and after you would open your event you can open the settings from there as well. 

Inside of these settings you can enable option called fixed order of poll options. I am also sending a screenshot attached. 


 

- Ondrej
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I am using Slido integrated into my PowerPoint slides in an educational setting and primarily for presenting multiple choice questions.  My multiple choice questions typically have four answer choices: A, B, C, or D.  When the class results are revealed, the multiple choice responses have been reordered by most popular selection by the class.  Is there any way to have the results of the poll to be displayed in the order that they appeared initially in the question.  In other words, I want the results to be displayed in A, B, C, D order and not reshuffled so that the most popular selection appears first.  Thanks.

Joel from Slido

Hi @ulf 

You definitely should be able to use a Slido in PowerPoint that you created at slido.com. If you see your colleague’s Slidos in the sidebar, it probably has something to do with your access and role. If you could please chat in with our support team or reach out to support@slido.com, they’ll be able to look at your specific account and see what’s going on.

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I first prepared the Slido on slido.com and thought I could pick it up within PowerPoint, but it doesn’t appear. I find myself self scrolling for the correct one, but I only see my colleagues’ 

C
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Hey @Hasif ,

Thats correct, your team member will need to download the Powerpoint add-in to their computer (you need this on whichever device you create and use Slido on). They do not need a paid seat on your license, you can send them Guest invitation to access the event to help create and run it.

Let us know if you have any other questions!

Best,

- Carly
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Hi there, 

If I integrate Slido into PowerPoint with my paid subscription but I will need my team member to use his/her laptop to present,

  1. Must the person install the Slido Plugin to their PowerPoint?
  2. Must the person have a purchased seat/subscription (or can they just have guest access)?

Thank you. 

C
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Hey @djh ,

With the Basic Plan, the default event dates is set to 7 days. You can adjust the date of the event to run longer in 7 day increments. This is a feature limitation on the free plan. Our Annual Plans allow for events to be active for up to a year.

I would suggest changing the active dates of the event after each session to allow it to reflect the next sessions dates.

Let us know if you have any other questions!

Best,

- Carly
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Hi there, I’m on the basic plan and have successfully added three polls to my powerpoint presentation. I am running a number of different sessions using the same presentation (and polls) over two weeks, but notice that there is a time limit of one week per event. Please can you advise on how I can run these sessions? The basic plan says there are unlimited events so am hoping this is possible.

Thanks for your advice.

 

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Ondrej from Slido
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Hello @rac59,

Thank you for your suggestion. It will be forwarded to our team as a feedback for Powerpoint integration. I am not sure if it would be possible technically but it is good to receive feedbacks like this for the future. 

- Ondrej
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Thank you for your response. If possible, it would be really nice to have the capability of inserting Slido directly onto a pre-existing PowerPoint slide.

Remington

 

I am using Slido embedded in PowerPoint to ask a class to answer multiple choice questions. I have been very successful in creating the questions, enabling to students to answer, and to provide the aggregated results to the class. This arrangement is not capturing the identity of the individual respondents for each question. To keep track of their participation and performance, I would like to be able to capture and record the identify of the students for each question. Is this possible? I have searched the Slido website for an answer without much success.

It’s possible

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Hey Bill!

Patrik’s here from Slido.

That is indeed possible, and it is achievable in a few different ways. In your case, I’d recommend to ask for their name in one of the polls, and then you can take a look and match those to answers to answers from other polls in an export. 

Or you can just ask them when they’re joining, and set participants privacy to always require name.

Hope this helps! If you’d need anything else, please let us know either here, or via email to support@slido.com. We also have a live chat, feel free to try that as well on slido.com :)

Have a great day!

- Patrik
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I am using Slido embedded in PowerPoint to ask a class to answer multiple choice questions. I have been very successful in creating the questions, enabling to students to answer, and to provide the aggregated results to the class. This arrangement is not capturing the identity of the individual respondents for each question. To keep track of their participation and performance, I would like to be able to capture and record the identify of the students for each question. Is this possible? I have searched the Slido website for an answer without much success.

Ondrej from Slido
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Hello @rac59, 

There is an option to run a poll in Slido without using PowerPoint integration. Once you would be on your existing slide you would activate the poll from Slido admin (via different device) and you would tell your participants how they can join and vote. 

Another alternative is using Slido picture poll (you could insert the picture into Slido directly) and people could vote. But this works only with our paid versions and you could use it together with the integration and your participants could view the picture on their devices. But I would suggest testing this option to make sure it fits your needs. 

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Ondrej from Slido
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Hello @apierce0115,

The replies, that can be posted as a moderator via Slido admin, can be seen only in the participants mode. So everyone using their device for posting questions should be able to see the replies. 

But when it comes to the Present mode in general it is not possible to display Slido replies. It does not matter if you use the integration with PowerPoint or you would use Slido as a standalone. Currently the way it is designed for the Present mode is to show Questions from the audience only. 

- Ondrej
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I’m wanting to run a Slido poll on an existing slide because I want audience members to answer questions about what they see on that slide. Is there a way to do that? I only see ways to make Slido polls a separate stand alone slide.

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Hello! We used Slido for the first time today during a large meeting, and one big bummer that we couldn’t figure out, was a way to show in the PowerPoint presentation the replies that the moderator was responding with. Is this not a possibility? Do you have to have a paid plan or certain settings? Any help would be greatly appreciated. THANK YOU

C
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Hey @Bw2410 , 

Are you on a Paid Webex account with Slido enabled for your Webex Org? If you are just a Basic Slido account using Webex login, you wont be able to use the Webex integration.

Please write to support@slido.com with the event code or chat into us so we can take a better look into your account to see what might be happening!

Best,

- Carly
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Hi Carly, 

Thank you so much for your reply. 

Can you please elaborate on how to link the respective Slido to the Webex Meeting that I also have in the PPT deck. When I go to find the slido from the deck in Webex >Apps > Slido. It does not appear. 

C
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Hey @Bw2410 ,

When using the PPT and Webex together with Slido, you will need to input the Slido polls into PPT directly (as it seems you have done) but the upload PPT deck into Webex is not compatible with Slido in this way. You will need to click on Apps > Slido > Link the respective Slido to the Webex Meeting that you also have in the PPT deck.

As you move through the PPT deck via Share Screen, you will then see the Slido polls activating automatically within the Webex integration when you get to a Slido poll in the PPT deck.

Since Slido needs internet connection, there is not a way to download a PPT deck and also have Slido interactions working, it would just show the holding slide and not activate the poll.

Let us know if you have any questions!

Best,

- Carly
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Hello!

 

I’m having issues with Slido in PowerPoint connecting to Slido in Webex. I have created polls in the slide deck, saved and then Share > File into Webex and the slido will not pop up in Webex.

 

Is there a reason the two are not connecting? 

 

Thank you!

Cori from slido
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Hi @DeannaC, 

I’m sorry to hear about the issue you’re having. Would you be able to contact our customer care team, they’re available 24/5 and will able to look into what’s happened here in more detail. You can contact them via our live chat or by reaching out to support@slido.com

Let me know if you have any more questions!

- Cori
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Hello!

I have a Slido presentation that has already been linked in PowerPoint that I’ve taken over for my team. I am attempting to add some additional slides to the presentation to include the remaining quiz questions that haven’t been included in the original presentation. How do I do this effectively? 

I tried to duplicate the previous slide and add the new quiz question that way, but it ended up changing both slides when I input the question. I seem to be missing about 5 questions from the quiz - how do I now add them to PowerPoint so they actually appear for the participants? 

Your help is greatly appreciated! 

Thank you, 

Deanna 

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