How Does a Poll Slide Work?
In a poll, you ask a question and provide between 2 and 30 answer options. Your audience votes for one or more of the answer options on their phones. The poll updates live, so on the presenter screen you see a chart displaying the results. Once a participant has voted on their phone, they’ll see the results on their screen too.Creating a Poll Slide
Add a new slide
On the AhaSlides editor, click + New slide in the top-left corner. (On a brand-new presentation, you can also click Choose a slide right on the canvas.)
Poll Settings
Hide Results
Hide Results
Keep the results hidden until you press the button to reveal them to your audience. This also hides the results on each participant’s phone screen.
Show Results on Audience's Phones
Show Results on Audience's Phones
Allows the audience to see everyone’s votes for that slide on their phone screen after they have submitted their own vote.
Show Results in %
Show Results in %
Displays the results as percentages instead of the number of participants who voted for each answer option. This can also be toggled by simply clicking on any of the coloured segments on the presenter’s screen.
Layout
Layout
Displays the results in one of 3 different options: a bar chart, donut chart, or pie chart.
Allow Picking More Than One Option
Allow Picking More Than One Option
Allows the audience to select multiple answer options. When selected, choose the maximum number of options a participant can pick, between 2 options and all of the options on the poll.
This Question Has Correct Answer(s)
This Question Has Correct Answer(s)
Allows you to ask a multiple-choice question with one or more correct answers. When selected, you’ll be asked to mark which answer option(s) are correct. The answer stays concealed until you press the Show correct answer button on your slide.
A multiple-choice slide with a correct answer is not scored. If you’d like to create a quiz question where your audience earns points for correct answers, use one of the slides in the Quiz section instead.
Close Submission
Close Submission
Useful if you need to explain a question before your audience votes, or for any other reason where you don’t want participants to vote on a question at that moment. While presenting, click the “Submission closed” icon to enable submissions, and the “Submission opened” icon to close it.
Limit Time to Answer
Limit Time to Answer
Sets a time limit for your audience to answer, between 5 seconds and 20 minutes. While running the Poll slide, you can turn off the timer or change the time limit — but if you turn off the timer while presenting, you can’t turn it back on until you switch back to edit mode.