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A leaderboard displays the rankings and scores of participants in an AhaSlides quiz. After the final question, the leaderboard displays the winner.

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Before you start

Leaderboards work only with quiz slide types: Pick Answer, Short Answer, Match Pairs, Correct Order, Categorise, Fill in the Blanks, and True or False. They do not work with Poll slides.
A leaderboard slide does not update in real time. It fetches the latest results only when you refresh it, or when you return or move to it from another slide, because it is designed for live presentations. For more on building a quiz, see How to make and run a quiz.

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Use the quiz leaderboard slide

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On the presenter screen

When you add a quiz slide, AhaSlides automatically creates a leaderboard slide and places it after the quiz slide. If you do not see a leaderboard, you may have added a Poll slide instead of a quiz slide type.
AhaSlides editor with a Pick Answer quiz slide followed by the Leaderboard slide added automatically, highlighted
You can delete any leaderboard slide without affecting the quiz slide that generated it. To show the leaderboard once per round instead of after every question, delete every leaderboard slide except the last one in each round. A leaderboard slide shows each player’s running total: the points from every quiz question before that leaderboard slide in the presentation, not only the questions since the previous leaderboard slide. To add a deleted leaderboard back, open the Content tab of the quiz slide and turn on the Leaderboard switch.
AhaSlides quiz slide editor with the Content tab open and the Leaderboard switch turned on, highlighted
Each leaderboard slide shows the top 5 participants, and the presenter can scroll down to see everyone else. The final leaderboard slide of your presentation displays the final scores and announces the winner of your quiz. The winner screen opens automatically once the final scores load. If you close it, click Show Winner below the slide, or press W, to bring it back.
Final AhaSlides quiz leaderboard in present mode with the winner ranked first and the Show Winner button highlighted

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On the audience screen

The leaderboard is also viewable on the audience’s mobile devices. Every quiz player can see their own position in the table and can scroll up and down to reveal all positions on the leaderboard.
AhaSlides quiz leaderboard on the presenter screen beside the participant screen showing their rank and correct answers

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Open the pop-up leaderboard

The pop-up leaderboard lets a presenter check live scores at any point during a presentation. Press L on the keyboard, or click the Trophy icon in the control bar, to open it. When you open the pop-up leaderboard, the audience screens stay unchanged. The leaderboard slides placed in your presentation still display as usual when they appear in the presentation flow.
The pop-up leaderboard always displays the final scores accumulated from all completed quizzes, regardless of when or where you open it.
AhaSlides pop-up leaderboard over a quiz slide during a presentation, with the Trophy icon in the control bar highlighted

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Remove past participants from the leaderboard

The leaderboard keeps the names and scores of everyone who has played until you clear the presentation’s results. If you reuse the same quiz with a new audience, the previous players will keep showing up alongside the new ones. To remove past participants, reset the results of the presentation. This erases all participant submissions, including the leaderboard scores, and returns the quiz to its pre-audience state so only your next audience appears. Your questions, answers, and slides are not affected. You can reset the results for the whole presentation or for a single slide. For the exact steps, see Resetting the Results. There’s no way to remove just one participant from the leaderboard. To hide one person’s name instead, click the eye icon next to name; their score and rank stay.
Each reset starts a new session in your report, so the earlier players’ scores are still saved in Your AhaSlides Presentation Report even after they leave the live leaderboard.

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Frequently asked questions

A leaderboard is added automatically when you create any quiz slide, and it is placed right after that quiz slide. If you turned a leaderboard off, open the Content tab of the quiz slide and turn on the Leaderboard switch.
Delete the leaderboard slide the same way you delete any slide. This does not affect the quiz slide that generated it.
Open the Content tab of the quiz slide that the leaderboard belonged to, then turn on the Leaderboard switch.
Leaderboards work only with quiz slide types: Pick Answer, Short Answer, Match Pairs, Correct Order, Categorise, Fill in the Blanks, and True or False. If you added a Poll slide instead of a quiz slide, no leaderboard is created.
A leaderboard slide is designed for live presentations, so it does not update in real time. It fetches the latest results only when you refresh it or when you move to it from another slide.
Press L on your keyboard, or click the Trophy icon in the control bar. The audience screens stay unchanged, and it always shows the final scores accumulated from all completed quizzes.
Reset the presentation’s results. The leaderboard holds every past player’s name and score until the results are cleared, so resetting removes them and leaves only your next audience. You can reset the whole presentation or a single slide — see Resetting the Results. The earlier scores remain saved as a separate session in your presentation report.
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