Setting Up a Ranking Slide
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Open your presentation
Open your presentation in the AhaSlides editor.
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Add a Ranking slide
Click New Slide and choose Ranking.
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Enter your question
Type your question in the Your question field.
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Add items to rank
Add the items you want participants to rank — up to 10 items.
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Add images (optional)
Click the image icon next to the question or any item to add an image.
Video Tutorial
Ranking Settings
Pick per Participant
Pick per Participant
The number of items each participant can pick, from 2 to 10.
Time Limit
Time Limit
Apply a time limit between 5 seconds and 20 minutes (1200 seconds).
Close Submission
Close Submission
Stop accepting responses at any point during presenting — useful if you need to clarify a question before your audience submits their answers, or for any other reason you don’t want participants submitting right now.
Show Results Manually
Show Results Manually
Hides submitted responses from the presenter’s screen as they come in. While presenting, a button appears in the middle of the slide to reveal the responses whenever you’re ready.
How Scoring Works
Ranking slides use a weighted scoring system (Borda count): higher-ranked items get more points, lower-ranked items get fewer points, and all points are combined to determine the final order. The top result may not have the most votes — it reflects the highest overall priority. For example, in a list of 10 items, a participant’s #1 choice gets 10 points, #2 gets 9 points, #3 gets 8 points, and so on down to their last choice getting 1 point. Points from every participant are added together, and the item with the highest total score wins.On the Participant’s Side
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Join the presentation
Join via link or QR code.
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Select items to rank
Tap the items to select them. Tap an item again, or drag it back to the list, to unselect it.
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Reorder items
Drag items into their preferred order.
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Submit
Submit the response. Once submitted, responses can’t be changed.
Common Use Cases
Workshops and Strategy Sessions
Prioritise initiatives, ideas, or projects, and help teams align on what to focus on first.
Training and Education
Encourage learners to evaluate trade-offs by ranking competing factors or solutions.
Product and Feature Prioritisation
Identify which features or improvements should be built first based on team or customer input.
Retrospectives and Team Meetings
Rank challenges or improvement areas to decide what to address in the next sprint.
Employee Engagement and HR Planning
Understand which programmes, benefits, or development areas employees value most.
Customer Research and Surveys
Capture deeper insights by asking respondents to prioritise needs, preferences, or features.