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The audience authentication feature lets you give out passcodes to your audience. Each audience member enters their individual passcode to join your presentation. This is especially useful for ticketed events.
This feature isn’t available on every plan; if yours doesn’t include it, you’ll be prompted to upgrade.

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Set up audience authentication

1

Open Participant access

In the presentation editor, click the Settings icon in the right-hand toolbar, open the Participant access tab, then select Participants must enter passcode to join.
2

Set the number of participants

Enter the number of participants your presentation will have. If you don’t know the exact number, it’s better to overestimate so you’ll have enough codes to give out.
Participant access in AhaSlides Settings with the passcode option, participant number box and Generate code highlighted
3

Generate codes

Click the Generate code button. This downloads an Excel sheet showing all of your presentation’s authentication codes.
From here, you can share one code per participant. After a participant accesses your presentation via the URL link or QR code, they’ll be asked to enter the authentication code in order to join.
Each authentication code can only be used by one participant.

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Turning audience authentication off

To let participants join without a passcode again, open the Participant access tab in Settings and select Participants are free to join.

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Re-downloading your code list

If you need to download your code list again, open the Participant access tab in Settings and click Download authentication code list. This gives you another copy of the code list containing all of your presentation’s active codes (which remain active until you either reset or delete them).
Participant access in AhaSlides Settings with Download authentication code list and Delete generated codes highlighted

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Resetting or deleting your codes

You can also reset or delete your codes in the Participant access tab:
  1. Reset your code list by entering a new number of participants into the box and pressing Generate code again.
  2. Delete your code list by clicking the Delete generated codes option.
Have a question? Contact our support team — if you’re logged in, use the chat bubble in the bottom-right of your dashboard; otherwise contact us here or email hi@ahaslides.com. Want to connect with other users? Join the AhaSlides community to share tips, request features, and see how others engage their audiences.