Live polls
Live polls in your presentation, with word clouds, quizzes and audience Q&A.
In Slaide, polls, word clouds, quizzes and audience questions are slides of your presentation. Your audience answers on their phones, the results grow on your slide, and you need no second tool for it.
Free account, no credit card. Your audience needs no account.
What you can ask your audience
- Polls with one or several answers
- Word clouds where frequent words grow
- Scales for agreement and mood
- An open wall with short answers as cards
- Questions for the speaker that others can upvote
- Quizzes against the clock with a leaderboard
Every poll is a slide in the design of your presentation.
To run a live poll in your presentation, you insert a poll slide in Slaide and click Present live. Your audience scans the QR code and joins on their phones, with no app and no account. You can choose from seven types: poll, word cloud, scale, open wall, audience questions, quiz and leaderboard. The results appear on the slide while people answer.
How it works
From the slide to the answer on a phone.
Insert a poll, or ask for it in your brief
Turn on Live when you describe your presentation, and Slaide can build poll, quiz or question slides into the deck. Check the result: you decide which slides stay. In an existing presentation, open the menu of a page and choose Insert live poll.
Write the question and the answers
Click the text and type, as on any slide. The poll slide takes the design of your presentation. If something is missing, such as the question or the correct answer in a quiz, the slide shows it.
Present live
Click Present live. Press Q to show the join screen with the QR code, the address and the code. Your audience scans the code or opens slaide.de/live. For an online meeting, you copy an invite with the link and the code into the Teams or Zoom chat.
Keep the results
While people vote, bars, words and cards grow on the slide. Afterwards Slaide asks whether the results go into your document as slides or only as a table in your sources.
The poll types
Seven types, six tiles.
A quiz and its leaderboard belong together, so they share one tile.
Poll
Your audience picks one answer or several. The bars grow while the votes come in. You decide whether the result shows instantly or on click.
Word cloud
People type a few words, and frequent words get bigger. Works as an opening question or for collecting terms.
Scale
Rate statements, for example for agreement, feedback or mood. You set the range of the scale yourself.
Open wall
Short answers appear as cards on the slide, good for ideas and opinions. With approval on, Slaide shows each card only once you approve it.
Audience questions
Your audience asks questions and upvotes the ones of others. In the moderator view you approve questions and mark them as answered.
Quiz with leaderboard
Answer against the clock: the faster a correct answer comes, the more points it scores. The leaderboard shows the podium at the end. Each person picks a nickname for it.
Moderating
Approve questions without leaving your slides.
The moderator view runs in a second window or on your phone while the slides run on the big screen. It shows your notes, the running order and the answers. There you approve posts and questions, hide them again or mark a question as answered.
Short texts and nicknames pass a basic word filter. A hit stays hidden until you approve it, whatever setting you chose. To rehearse, present without live: nobody can join, and Slaide collects nothing.
- Approve, hide and mark answered for posts and questions
- A Next button for the next step, in a quiz for the question, the answer and the leaderboard
- Close voting, reopen it or hide the result
- Delete the responses to a question and start a new round
Moderator view
- On phones now: which question the audience sees
- Next: the big button for the next step
- Running order: all slides in sequence
- Approve, hide, mark answered
Notes, running order and answers in one place.
Your audience
Joining takes a phone and a browser.
Your audience needs a phone or laptop with internet and nothing else: no app and no account. Only you need a Slaide account.
Slaide asks your audience for no name and no email address. A random device ID in a cookie lets each device vote once and change its answer while voting is open. What is stored and for how long is in the help article and in the privacy policy.
How your audience joins
- Scan the QR code or open slaide.de/live
- Enter the code, spaces and dashes do not matter
- Answer, and the page moves on with you to the next question
- In a quiz, pick a nickname for the leaderboard
People can change their answer while voting is open.
What live polls do not do
What to know before you start.
Voting works only from Slaide
Your audience can vote only while you present from Slaide. If you download the presentation as PowerPoint, the poll slides there are ordinary slides without voting. Slaide asks you about it before the download.
Internet for everyone
You and your audience need an internet connection. If the live connection breaks, the phones check for updates at regular intervals instead.
One poll per slide
- One slide holds one poll, and one live session runs per presentation.
- You insert polls by hand into 16:9 slides.
- The number of participants is limited per session, lower on the free plan than on the paid plans. The exact limits are in the help article.
Free plan
On the free plan the closing screen of your audience carries a small note, "Made with Slaide". Plans are on the pricing page.
Credits
Starting and running a live session uses no credits. Building or changing slides with Slaide does, as with any other request.
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Common questions
Questions about live polls.
How do I run a live poll in a presentation?
Insert a poll slide in Slaide, write the question and the answers and click Present live. Press Q to show the join screen, your audience scans the QR code and answers on their phones, and the result grows on your slide. You can also ask for polls in your brief by turning on the Live switch.
Do participants need an account or an app?
No. They scan the QR code or open slaide.de/live, enter the code and answer in the browser. Only you need a Slaide account. Slaide asks your audience for neither a name nor an email address.
Can I create a live word cloud in my presentation?
Yes. Insert a word cloud as a poll slide. Your audience types a few words on their phones, and frequent words get bigger on the slide. You set how many words each person may submit in the settings chip of the slide.
How does a live quiz in a presentation work?
Insert a quiz slide, write the question with its answers and mark the correct one. You set how much time each question gets. The faster a correct answer comes, the more points it scores. A leaderboard shows the podium at the end, and each person picks a nickname for it.
How does audience Q&A work, and can I check questions first?
With the Questions type, your audience asks the speaker questions and upvotes the ones of others. If you set Show questions to After approval, each question appears only once you approve it in the moderator view. There you also mark questions as answered.
Do the polls work in a downloaded PowerPoint file?
Not for voting. You can download the presentation as .pptx, but the poll slides are ordinary slides there, and your audience can vote only while you present from Slaide. Slaide points this out before the download.
Does it work in an online meeting on Teams or Zoom?
Yes. Share your screen with the presentation and copy the invite with the link and the code into the chat. People open the link in their browser and answer there. Everyone needs an internet connection.
Do live polls cost extra?
Starting and running a live session uses no credits. Building or changing slides with Slaide does, as with any other request. How many people can join depends on the plan: the limits are in the help article and the plans on the pricing page.
Let your audience answer on your slides.
Create an account, describe your presentation, turn on Live and run your first poll.
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