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# Using Q&A to Gather Audience Questions in AhaSlides

> Let your audience submit questions at any point — from a dedicated Q&A slide or across all slides — with built-in moderation and upvoting.

The Q\&A feature lets you gather questions from your audience during a presentation, then organise and answer them one by one.

## Two Q\&A Modes

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Dedicated Q&A Slide">
    Add a **Q\&A slide** to your presentation deck from the slide type picker. Participants can only send you questions while you're presenting that slide. Type a heading in the **Heading** field to invite your audience to ask — something clear and welcoming works best, for example *"Got a question? Ask away!"*

    To add one, click **New slide** and select **Q\&A**.

    <Note>
      If your presentation includes more than one Q\&A slide, all submitted questions appear on **every** Q\&A slide — Q\&A works as a single, shared session across the entire presentation, not as separate question boards per slide. A question submitted on one Q\&A slide is also visible on any other Q\&A slide in the same presentation.
    </Note>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Q&A on All Slides">
    Enable **Q\&A on all slides** in your presentation settings — click **Settings** in the right menu bar, find **When can the audience send you questions?**, and select **On all slides**. When active, a button labelled **Ask a question** appears on participants' devices throughout the entire presentation, not just on a dedicated Q\&A slide, so they can submit questions at any moment. This mode is available on **Essential, Pro, Enterprise,** and **Edu Large** plans.

    While this is on, you'll see a counter of all unanswered questions submitted during your presentation. Click the counter to pop up the Q\&A interface and answer questions right away, the same way you would on a Q\&A slide.

    <Tip>
      You can select **On all slides** and still keep a dedicated Q\&A slide at the same time — your audience can send questions throughout the presentation, and you address them all when you reach the slide.
    </Tip>
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## Managing Questions

The Q\&A queue on your presenter screen lets you sort and manage incoming questions using five filters:

* **Top** — sorts by most upvoted questions first, so the most popular questions rise to the top. This is the default filter.
* **Pinned** — shows only questions you have pinned, keeping your priority items visible.
* **Newest** — sorts by most recently submitted.
* **Oldest** — sorts by earliest submitted, useful for working through questions in the order they arrived.
* **Answered** — shows questions you have already marked as answered.

**To answer a question:**

1. Click the question in the queue.
2. Click **Answer** to mark it as answered. The question moves to the Answered tab and out of the active queue.

**To pin a question:**
Hover over any question and click **Pin**. This both moves it under the **Pinned** filter and sticks it to the top of the **Top questions** filter. Pin a question when you want to come back to it or when it's currently being discussed.

## Q\&A Settings

Find these settings in the **Content** panel of your Q\&A slide, or in **Settings → Q\&A with your audience**. The same settings apply whether you're holding Q\&A on all slides or only on a dedicated Q\&A slide.

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Filter Profanity">
    Automatically block questions containing offensive language before they appear in the live queue. See [how to use the profanity filter](/presenting/how-to-use-profanity-filter) for details. Enable this for any session where the audience is large or not fully known.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Moderate Audience's Questions">
    Available on **Pro, Enterprise,** and **Edu Large** plans. Review questions before they appear in the live queue. Turning this on gives you a link to **moderation mode**, which you (or a dedicated moderator) can open in a separate tab to approve or dismiss incoming questions. Click **Approve** to let a question through, or **Dismiss** to erase it — each moves to the **Approved** or **Dismissed** category in moderation mode, and you can move a question back to **Pending** if you made a mistake. Recommended for public webinars and large events.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Allow Audience to See Each Other's Questions">
    Lets each audience member see all submitted questions on their own device, as well as on the presenter's screen. Turning this off creates a private queue visible only to the presenter.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Allow Anonymous Questions">
    Lets each audience member submit a question without entering their name. The name field still appears but isn't mandatory to fill in.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

<Note>
  The Q\&A slide supports up to **1,000 questions per presentation**.
</Note>

<Tip>
  Enable **Moderation** for webinars or large public events to prevent off-topic or inappropriate questions from appearing live. You can review and approve questions in real time from the presenter dashboard without the audience seeing the delay.
</Tip>


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