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# How to Make and Run a Quiz in AhaSlides
> Learn how to create and host a live quiz on AhaSlides, where participants compete for points using quiz question slides and a leaderboard.
On AhaSlides, you can host a live quiz and have all of your participants competing for points. Build a quiz using quiz question slides and see who ranks top of the leaderboard at the end!
## Video and Interactive Demo
This video explains how to make a live quiz, including everything in this article. If you're looking for a specific part, click the bottom-right button to watch it on YouTube, where each section is timestamped in the video description.
Below is an interactive demo that lets you try this feature for yourself:
## How Does a Quiz Work?
In a quiz, participants in your presentation compete against each other to get the most points by submitting the most correct answers to your quiz questions.
You progress through the quiz, pausing at each slide for players to answer the question on that slide. All players see a question at the same time on their personal devices and submit their answer from there before the time runs out.
Here you can see the screens of the **quiz host** (on the left-hand computer) and the **quiz player** (on the right-hand phone).
## Step 1: Choosing a Quiz Slide
On the presentation editor, create a new slide and select any of the 5 'quiz' slides as the format for that question (Spinner Wheel is *not* a scored quiz slide):
* **Pick Answer** — A multiple-choice question with text or image answers.
* **Short Answer** — An open question with no answers to choose from. Players must type their answers.
* **Match Pairs** — A question with a set of prompts and a set of answers. Players must match the prompt to the right answer.
* **Correct Order** — A question with statements in random order. Players must put the statements in the correct order.
* **Categorise** — A question with categorized items. The player must classify the provided items into the corresponding groups.
**15-Second Explainer: Leaderboard Slides**
Once you have selected your quiz slide, a leaderboard slide will automatically generate after it.
The leaderboard slide does not update in real time. It fetches the latest results only when you refresh it or return/move to it from another slide, as it's designed for live presentations.
You can also use a **Pop-up Leaderboard** by pressing **L** on your keyboard (or clicking the **Trophy icon** in the control bar).
More details can be found in [Adding and Deleting a Leaderboard on your Quiz](/features-and-functions/adding-and-deleting-a-leaderboard-on-your-quiz).
## Step 2: Editing a Quiz Slide
Now you can edit your slide. Here's what a 'Pick Answer' slide looks like when it's ready to edit:
In the right-hand column, write your question in the box labelled 'Your question'.
Write up to 8 answer options for your players to choose from. Mark at least one option as correct by checking the box next to it — or generate answers with AI to quickly create answer options for your questions. See [Generating Questions and Answers Using AI](/ai-powered-features/generating-questions-and-answers-using-ai-on-ahaslides).
Scroll down in the right-hand column to find the settings for your quiz question — see below.
### Slide Settings
The maximum and minimum number of points it is possible to get on that question. If **Faster answers get more points** is unchecked, any correct answer receives the maximum number of points.
Enable this option to encourage players to answer quicker. For example, if the time to answer is 100 seconds and the reward points are set to 100 maximum and 0 minimum, a player submitting their answer with 80 seconds left receives 80 points.
The amount of seconds each player has to answer the question.
If enabled, a leaderboard slide is added right after this slide.
### Partial Scoring
When setting up a Pick Answer slide, you can mark multiple answers as correct. If you do, participants can pick more than one answer, and the **Partial scoring** option appears — toggle it on or off:
* **On** — Players score points for each correct answer, but any incorrect answer results in 0 points.
* **Off** — Players must select all correct answers to score points.
Partial scoring can also be toggled on the **Match Pairs** and **Categorise** slide types. [Click here to read how it works](/using-slide-types/using-the-match-pairs-slide).
### Adding Hints
You can add hints to your quiz questions to help out players. Only the presenter can choose to reveal a hint during a question.
Click the **Add hint** button above your question.
Write up to 3 hints in the boxes.
Your first hint appears in a yellow box below your question. While presenting, press the arrow to reveal the next hint.
Hints appear on both the presenter's screen and the audience's screens.
Hints are currently only available on the Pick Answer slide.
### Adding Audio
If you're on the **Pro or Enterprise** plan, you can also add accompanying audio to your quiz questions. See [Slide and Presentation Audio](/features-and-functions/slide-audio-presentation-audio-and-sound-effects) for more.
## Step 3: Joining a Quiz
When you've created your quiz slides, you can either invite your players to join your presentation, or join it yourself on your phone to test it out (recommended).
To start, press the purple **Present** button in the top-right corner of the editor. This takes you into the quiz lobby, where players join your quiz before you start hosting it.
In the lobby, your players can [join your quiz](/presenting/sharing-your-presentation-for-participants-to-join) using either the **URL code** or **QR code** in the left-hand column.
If a player joins the presentation while the host is presenting a non-quiz slide (like a poll, heading, or content slide), that player has not yet joined the quiz. To join the quiz, the host needs to present a quiz slide.
When the host presents a quiz slide:
* The host sees the **lobby** on their screen — all the players who have joined the quiz and are waiting to play.
* The player is asked to **enter their name** and choose an avatar for the quiz. Once chosen, they appear in the quiz lobby.
## Step 4: Presenting a Quiz
When all your players have joined the quiz and are showing in the quiz lobby, press the blue button below that says **Start the Quiz!**
Your first question shows on your screen and each player's phone screen. Players have the time limit you specified in the settings to answer.
Proceed through your quiz like this until the final winner is announced at the end!
**Quiz Report**: Once you've finished presenting, check your presentation report to see how well your players did. Find it by clicking **View presentation report** in the top-right toolbar, which takes you to the Participant Report. See [Your AhaSlides Presentation Report](/after-the-presentation/your-ahaslides-presentation-report) for more.
## Other Settings for Quizzes
Aside from the settings on each slide (see Step 2), you can also enable/disable general settings for the whole quiz. Find these under **Settings** in the right side menu bar, then **General quiz settings**.
When turned on, the presenter and participants can exchange messages, inspire friendly competition, and have lively discussions on the quiz lobby screen. This cultivates a thriving atmosphere, transforming the quiz into an exciting and bonding experience.
Turn on music and sound effects that automatically play during the quiz lobby screen, quiz slides, and each leaderboard screen. You can also toggle this off and on directly on screen in the top-left corner. The music and sound effects are selected by AhaSlides and are not customisable. Sound effects accompany the countdown on quiz slides, signalling both the beginning of the quiz and the impending conclusion as the timer winds down; music plays throughout the quiz. On a leaderboard slide, a short jingle plays while the leaderboard rearranges to show new standings, and a different, more triumphant jingle announces the winner on the final leaderboard slide.
When on, each question is preceded by a 5-second countdown timer, giving players time to read the question before they answer.
Available on **Edu Medium, Edu Large, Pro, and Enterprise** plans. Players play the quiz in teams rather than individually. See [Running a Team Quiz](/features-and-functions/running-a-team-quiz) to set this up.
Available on **Edu Medium, Edu Large, Pro, and Enterprise** plans. Answer options for players on all Pick Answer, Match Pairs, and Correct Order slides are shuffled randomly, making it harder for players to swap answers by showing each other their screens.
Available on **all paid plans**. Does not work in [Self-paced mode](/presenting/setting-up-a-self-paced-presentation-on-ahaslides). When toggled on, the presenter sees an option at the end of each quiz question to explain it in greater detail before revealing how everyone voted.
**Enabled** — participants select an avatar when they join the quiz at the Lobby screen. **Disabled** — participants can join the quiz without avatars.
## Audience-Paced/Self-Paced Quizzes
You can also let your players play a quiz without a host. This is great for teachers who want to assign a quiz as homework, or quiz masters who want to give players freedom to complete a quiz at a time that suits them.
To set this up, see [Setting up a Self-Paced Presentation on AhaSlides](/presenting/setting-up-a-self-paced-presentation-on-ahaslides).
## Frequently Asked Questions
Usually for one of two reasons: (1) you may have chosen a **Poll** slide instead of a **Pick Answer** slide — these slides look similar, but only Pick Answer is a quiz slide and asks for names; or (2) you may be presenting a non-quiz slide. If players join while you're presenting a heading, list, image, or other non-quiz slide, they won't be asked for a name — once you move to the first quiz slide, they will be.
If you've just tested your quiz with a real device, want to reuse a quiz, or made a mistake and want to start over, you can clear any submitted answers without affecting the content of your quiz. You can clear all responses or just the responses from one question — see [Resetting the Results](/after-the-presentation/resetting-the-results).
The best way is [Preview Mode](/features-and-functions/how-to-preview-and-test-your-presentation), which lets you try your quiz from both the presenter screen and the player screen. You can also join it on your own phone or get friends to join and play along — if you do, remember to clear your own answers afterward.
This feature automatically ends the quiz timer once all participants have submitted their answers. It counts the highest number of participants who were in the quiz at the same time after the presenter clicked **Present**. For example, if your quiz had a peak of 100 participants but 1-2 later left, the system still treats the total as 100 — so the timer won't auto-end until it has responses accounted for from all 100. The count only resets when the presenter exits presenting mode and clicks **Present** again. The presenter can also manually end the timer by hovering over it and clicking **End now**.
Adjust two settings: turn on **Manually show correct answers** in the general quiz settings so the correct answer is only revealed when you choose (note this doesn't work in [Self-paced mode](/presenting/setting-up-a-self-paced-presentation-on-ahaslides)); and to hide the leaderboard between questions, delete the in-between leaderboard slides (or turn off the **Leaderboard** setting on each quiz slide) and keep a single leaderboard at the very end — see [Adding and Deleting a Leaderboard on your Quiz](/features-and-functions/adding-and-deleting-a-leaderboard-on-your-quiz).
## Related topics
- [How to Use the Short Answer Quiz Slide in AhaSlides](/using-slide-types/how-to-use-the-short-answer-quiz-slide.md)
- [AhaSlides: Interactive Presentations & Live Engagement](/getting-started/what-is-ahaslides.md)
- [How to Set Up a Match Pairs Quiz Slide in AhaSlides](/using-slide-types/using-the-match-pairs-slide.md)
- [How to Set Up a Categorise Quiz Slide in AhaSlides](/using-slide-types/using-the-categorise-slide.md)
- [How to Set Up a Correct Order Quiz Slide in AhaSlides](/using-slide-types/using-the-correct-order-slide.md)