Before you start
- Find it: click Surveys in the left-hand menu after you log in to AhaSlides. Surveys live in their own dashboard section, separate from your presentations.
The AI options in Surveys follow your account’s On-demand AI setting. If AI is switched off for your account — or by your team admin — the AI starting points and the editor’s AI assistant are inactive, while everything else in Surveys keeps working. See How AhaSlides uses AI and what you should know.
Create a Survey
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Open Surveys
Log in to AhaSlides and click Surveys in the left-hand menu.
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Choose how to start
Click New survey. In the editor, pick Create with AI to describe your Survey and let AhaSlides draft the questions, Use a template to start from a ready-made survey, or Add a question to build it yourself.
Choose question types for a Survey
Mix as many question types as you need in a single Survey:Multiple Choice
Respondents pick one option from a list you define — or turn on Multiple answers so they can select as many as apply. A question holds up to 30 options. Multiple answers has no setting to cap how many options a respondent selects.
Rating scale
A slider between two labels you set — for example, Not useful to Extremely useful. It starts at 0 or 1 and ends at up to 10.
Rating (5-star)
A quick 5-star rating — a simpler visual alternative to the slider scale.
Net Promoter Score
A fixed 0–10 scale — from Not at all likely to Extremely likely — asking how likely respondents are to recommend you. Results are auto-calculated as a Net Promoter Score: the share of Promoters (9–10) minus the share of Detractors (0–6), from -100 to +100.
Short answer
A single-line box for a brief free-text answer.
Long answer
A multi-line paragraph box for longer written feedback.
Matrix
Several sub-questions sharing the same answer choices — great for Likert tables.
Date
Respondents pick a specific date, with a format you can customise.
Ranking
Respondents drag options to order them from most to least preferred.
Contact Information
One block that collects Name, Email, Phone, and Company together.
Add a theme to your Survey
Give your Survey your own look by applying a theme — the same themes AhaSlides presentations use, so respondents see a branded, consistent form instead of the plain default.1
Open Customise
In the Survey editor, click Customise in the top action bar. The Customise panel opens on the right with a gallery of themes.
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Pick a theme
Choose a look from My themes, Team themes, or AhaSlides themes — each card previews its background and palette. Click a card to apply it instantly; the editor updates so you see exactly what respondents get. Pick Default to return to the plain look.
- Background — the theme’s background colour, or image, fills the Survey.
- Colour palette — the first colour in the theme’s palette becomes the accent for interactive elements like buttons and links.
- Font and text colour — questions and answers render in the theme’s font, and body text follows the theme’s own text colour for readability.
If your Survey is linked to a presentation, it follows that deck’s theme automatically — the panel shows Theme follows your linked presentation and the Default reset is switched off. Picking a different theme still works and syncs back to the presentation.
Publish and share a Survey
While a Survey is a Draft it isn’t collecting responses. When you’re happy with your questions, click Publish in the top bar of the Survey editor — the status changes to Published and it’s ready for respondents.Run a standalone Survey
To open the Share page, click Share in the top bar of the Survey editor and choose Share with respondents, which is switched off until the Survey has been published. From the Share page, a published Survey can be shared three ways:- Share link — copy the link and send it anywhere (email, Slack, LMS, poster). You can edit the link to a custom, memorable slug — the QR code updates automatically to match.
- QR code — display the QR code shown next to the share link, or click Download as PNG for print, slides, or on-screen scanning.
- Website embed — open Embed in a website and click Copy embed code to embed the Survey on any web page.
Run a Survey inside your presentation
Use this when you want structured feedback from your audience while they’re still in the room — end-of-session forms, mid-workshop check-ins, event feedback.- Open your presentation in the editor and add a new slide.
- Select the Survey slide type.
- Under More ways to fill this slide, click Add an existing survey, then Select your Survey. Any of your surveys can be linked, including drafts — linking publishes it automatically.
- Present your deck as usual — participants join with the normal join code or QR code.
- When you reach the Survey slide, the Survey is revealed on every participant’s device.
- Each participant scrolls through the questions, answers them, and presses Submit.
Add collaborators to a Survey
Invite others to work on a Survey with you. In the Survey editor, click Share → Add collaborators, enter an email, pick a role, then Add:- Editor — can edit the Survey and view all its results.
- Viewer — can view the Survey and its results, but can’t edit.
Set anonymous or signed-in Survey responses
By default, a standalone Survey collects anonymous responses — no name, email, or sign-in is asked for. When you need to know who answered, require respondents to sign in with an AhaSlides account first. In the Survey editor, click the Survey settings gear in the top action bar, then under Respondent identity pick one of two options:- Anonymous (the default) — respondents answer without signing in, and each response shows as Anonymous in your results.
- Require sign-in — respondents sign in with their AhaSlides account before answering, and their name and email are attached to each response.
Turning on Require sign-in makes the Survey no longer anonymous — respondents are told up front that their identity is collected. Keep it on Anonymous when honest, unattributed feedback matters more than knowing who answered. Sign-in isn’t available inside an embedded Survey — a respondent on a website embed is asked to open the Survey in its own browser tab to sign in.
What happens next
You can check results at any time. Open a Survey and click View results, or find every Survey’s results together under the main Reports page — the Surveys tab — with search and date filters to narrow things down. At the top of the results page, a summary shows five key metrics at a glance:- Started answering — how many people opened the Survey, whether or not they answered a question.
- Completions — how many submitted it.
- Completion rate — the share of starters who finished.
- Dropout rate — the share who started but didn’t finish.
- Average duration — how long a response took on average.
