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These are the questions we’re asked most often once a quiz is up and running. For the setup walkthrough, see How to Make and Run a Quiz; for every toggle and its meaning, see Quiz settings on AhaSlides.

Frequently Asked Questions

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); 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.
Yes. Each quiz question can be up to 300 characters long. As you type in the Your question box, a counter shows how many characters you have left, and the box stops accepting input once you reach the limit.The same 300-character limit applies whether you type a question directly in the editor or import your questions from a spreadsheet. If you need to give players more detail than the limit allows, add a heading or content slide before the quiz slide to carry the extra context.
No. Quiz slides use a fixed layout: the question, the answer options, and the slide image sit in set positions, and you cannot drag, resize, or stack them. There are also no line-spacing or letter-spacing controls for quiz text.You can still style a quiz slide. Change the font and the text colour from the text toolbar, and set a background colour, a background image, and its transparency under the Design tab. Each slide uses one background at a time — a colour or a single image — rather than multiple stacked background layers.For full design freedom, use a Content slide instead. It gives you a free-form canvas where you can add several text boxes, images, and GIFs, position and resize each one anywhere on the slide, and stack them using Bring forward and Send backward. A common setup is a Content slide for the themed intro or the answer reveal, followed by the quiz slide itself.
Three more common questions — why a quiz isn’t asking players for their names, how to clear player answers, and how to test a quiz — are answered on How to Make and Run a Quiz.

Where to Go Next

How to Make and Run a Quiz

The full walkthrough — choosing a quiz slide, editing it, getting players in, and presenting.

Quiz settings on AhaSlides

Per-slide points, time limits, partial scoring, hints and audio, plus the general quiz settings.

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.