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# How to Award and Deduct Extra Points on an AhaSlides Quiz

> Manually award or deduct quiz points from a leaderboard to run bonus rounds and reward player behaviour, from a Leaderboard slide or the pop-up Leaderboard.

The points score adjustment feature lets you manually add or remove points from any quiz player. It's a handy way to run bonus rounds, reward good behaviour, or correct a score.

## Awarding or deducting quiz points

Point adjustments work on both the **Leaderboard** slide and the **pop-up Leaderboard**.

<Warning>
  If you add bonus points on a **Leaderboard slide**, deleting that slide will also delete the bonus points. To make sure the bonus points are kept, add them using the **pop-up Leaderboard** instead.
</Warning>

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the leaderboard">
    Navigate to the **leaderboard** and hover your mouse over the player you want to award or deduct points from.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Click Points">
    Click the **⇧ Points** button.
  </Step>

  <Step title="To add points">
    Type in the number of points you want to add.
  </Step>

  <Step title="To deduct points">
    Type a minus symbol (`-`) followed by the number of points you want to remove.
  </Step>
</Steps>

After awarding or deducting points, you'll see a confirmation of the player's new total and, if the change moved them, their new position on the leaderboard.

The leaderboard then updates automatically, and players see their updated scores on their phones.

## Reading the updated leaderboard

On the updated leaderboard you'll see **3 numbered columns**:

1. The total number of points for each player in the quiz.
2. The number of points gained since the last leaderboard was shown.
3. The difference in points from awarding and deducting.

For more on adding, removing, and re-enabling leaderboards, see [Adding and deleting a leaderboard on your quiz](/features-and-functions/adding-and-deleting-a-leaderboard-on-your-quiz).


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